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The National Association of Racing (Japanese: 地方競馬全国協会 Chiho Keiba Zenkoku Kyokai, or NAR) is the authority for horse races operated by local governments in Japan (Prefectures, cities/towns/villages or unions of them). [1]
Japan Breeding Farms' Cup Sprint (ジャパンブリーディングファームズカップスプリント) is an annual race held on "JBC day", which is usually November 3, or the national holiday Culture Day. This race and the JBC Classic were started in 2001. These were established following the American Breeders' Cup.
The country's most prominent race is the Grade 1 Japan Cup, a 2,400 m (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 mi) invitational turf race run every November at Tokyo Racecourse for a purse of ¥476 million (about US$5.6 million), which used to be the richest turf race in the world.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Japan Breeding Farms' Cup Classic (ジャパンブリーディングファームズカップクラシック) is an annual race that is usually held on November 3, the national holiday Culture Day. This race and the JBC Sprint were started in 2001, following American the Breeders' Cup, though the JBC has only two category race. In 2011, JBC Lady ...
The crest or emblem of the national team was adopted in late 2017 as part of a larger rebranding by the Japan Football Association. [101] The crest features the Yatagarasu , a three-legged crow from Japanese mythology that is a symbol for the sun, holding a solid red ball that is like the sun from national flag .