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Rugby

Japan Rugby wins 2nd straight in Hong Kong

May 7, The 2nd round of the Asian rugby championship 2016 is carried out, Japan National Rugby team was the game in Hong Kong(at Hong Kong). Japan took many mistakes and foul, but they took 6 tries with reduced Hong Kong to 0 try. The game was won in Japan, 38: 3. Keisuke Uchida of Japan’s …

Rugby

Sunwolves is not winning streak in SuperRugby

There was a game of Sunwolves vs Western Force at Prince Chichibu memorial stadium(Tokyo), May 7. Sunwolves, Akihito Yamada(WTB)after returning from injury took a try to start 4 minutes. But then is taken 4 tries to Western Force, the 1st half ended with 5:26. Because was hot today, the 2nd half was tired even with both …

Baseball

Posting system within 1 year extension

NPB(Japan Pro-Baseball assosiation) has announced the posting system has become 1-year extension. The current posting system, set the upper limit of the transfer money $ 20 million, all of the MLB team there is a pay intention has become a possible negotiation with the NPB players. Last year, Kenta Maeda has been moved to Los Angeles Dodgers …

Football (soccer)

Halilhodzic visited Kumamoto in the affected areas

Vahid Halilhodzic of Japanese National football team Manager visited Kumamoto in the affected areas, May 5. He around 6 locations in Kumamoto, played football with children. Seichiro Maki also participated with the team-mate of Roasso Kumamoto. and Halilhodzic visited also shelter of Mashiki-town that earthquake of seismic intensity 7 has occurred. He said that “all of the people involved …

Baseball

Fighters Not win even with 4 home runs…

There was a game of Softbank Hawks vs Nipponham Fighters at Sapporo Dome May 4. Fighters that lost yesterday, but 4 players hitted home run Daikan YOH, Sho Nakata, Shohei Otani, Brandon Laird, today. However, Hirotoshi Masui of the relief pitcher has been demoted to the minor a poor performance, so Hawks was a tie score at 9 …