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The two semifinal winners would meet for the league championship in the Japan X Bowl held at the Tokyo Dome. Since 1987, Japan X Bowl has decided the X League championship. Until 2002, it was known as the Tokyo Super Bowl. The winner of this game goes on to the Rice Bowl to face the winner of the Koshien Bowl, the national college championship ...
American football was introduced in the early 1930s, when Paul Rusch, a teacher and missionary from Kentucky, who came to Japan in 1925 to help rebuild following the 1923 earthquake, George Marshall, an athletic teacher at Tokyo based Rikkyo University, and two military attaches at the US embassy, Alexander George and Merritt Booth, helped to form the first football teams at three universities ...
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The Japan American Football Association is governing body of Gridiron Football in Japan. Which oversees middle school, high school, collegiate, club, and even corporate teams. Since 1984, the JAFA has organized and sponsored the Rice Bowl, a championship game played between the college national champion and the X-League champion.
The Japan Football Association (JFA) is the governing body of Japanese football. The JFA organizes the men's , women's , and futsal national teams. Association football was introduced to Japan during the Meiji period by O-yatoi gaikokujin , foreign advisors hired by the Japanese government, along with many other foreign sports, like baseball .
Sega's arcade title Virtua Striker (1994) was the first association football game to use 3D graphics, and was also notable for its early use of texture mapping. [116] Meanwhile, Sierra Online released American football title Front Page Sports Football in 1995 for the PC.
Keio Unicorns football; Keio University; Keishichou Eagles; Noriaki Kinoshita; Kogakuin Crash Machines football; Kokushikan Rhinoceros football; Kokushikan University; Komazawa University; Koshien Bowl; Koshien Stadium; Koshin Gom Athlete Park Sendai; Kwansei Gakuin Fighters football; Kyūshū Collegiate American Football Association
As of 2010, there are more than 400 high school football teams in Japan, with over 15,000 participants, and over 100 teams play in the Kantoh Collegiate Football Association (KCFA). [197] The X-League is the largest American football league in Japan, and the largest American football league in the world to use a promotion-relegation system.