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The All Japan Ice hockey Championship (全日本アイスホッケー選手権大会) is an annual ice hockey tournament for Japanese teams, that began in 1930, making the tournament one of the oldest sporting competitions in the country.
Ice hockey is a minor sport that is gaining popularity in Japan. [1] [2] [3] Baseball and football (soccer) have dominated Japanese sports for decades, but ice hockey has been less popular in Japan since its founding in the 1920s. [4] It is governed by the Japan Ice Hockey Federation.
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The Japanese national ice hockey team (Japanese: アイスホッケー男子日本代表 Aisuhokkē Danshi Nippon Daihyō) is the national men's ice hockey of Japan.They are controlled by the Japan Ice Hockey Federation and a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).
It features an ice surface 30m wide by 60m long and seats 1,576 people. [2] In the 2010-2011 season, the Free Blades played games as the home team out of the Shin-Yokohama Skate Center, which is the Seibu Prince Rabbits old home arena.
They won the inaugural Asia League Ice Hockey title in the 2003–04 season, and have won it four times overall. They also have won the All Japan Ice hockey Championship seven times. After the 2018–19 season, the team was dissolved due to financial difficulties, and was replaced by the East Hokkaido Cranes. [1]
The Japan Ice Hockey Federation (Japanese: 日本アイスホッケー連盟) is the governing body of ice hockey in Japan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Japan was the first Asian nation to join the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).
The Japan Ice Hockey League (JIHL) (日本アイスホッケーリーグ) was an annual ice hockey league that began in 1966 and ended in 2004 when it was replaced by Asia League Ice Hockey. Only Japanese teams competed in the JIHL. Baseball and football have been the dominant Japanese sports for decades, but ice hockey in Japan started in the ...