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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 ...
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 game.
The Japan American Football Association (JAFA) is the governing body of gridiron football in Japan which oversees middle school, high school, collegiate, club, and even corporate teams. It was founded in 1934.
There are a total of eight leagues divided between East Japan (東日本) and West Japan (西日本). Each league has at least two tiers of program. Each league has at least two tiers of program. The top or first tier is the only one that sends teams to the post season tournament.
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 .
The Christmas Bowl (クリスマスボウル, Kurisumasu Bōru) is the annual Japanese high-school American football championship game. As with most American Football leagues, the league setup is split into two regions — Kantō and Kansai — and the champions of each region play in the Christmas Bowl.
IFAF Asia is the governing body of American football in Asia. It is a member of the International Federation of American Football. IFAF Asia replaced the Asian Federation of American Football (AFAF) in 2012. [1] [2] The oldest of IFAF Asia federations is the Japan American Football Association (JAFA), which was founded in 1934.
The Japan national American football team represents Japan in international American football competitions. The team is controlled by the Japan American Football Association, and has been one of the world's strongest international teams since it began participating regularly in international tournaments in the 1990s, and currently possesses the second most American Football World Cups [1 ...