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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 ...
This is a list of the schools in Japan that have varsity football teams and are overseen by the Japan American Football Association. [1] 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.
It was founded in 1971 as the Japan American Football League and organized the first X Bowl in 1987. The league changed its name to the X League in 1997. The league is divided into four divisions (X1 Super, X1 Area, X2, and X3) with promotion and relegation between them. [1] Teams are split into different divisions or blocks, depending on the tier.
2015 Ritsumeikan Panthers football team; 2016 JAFA Division I football season; 2016 Kantoh Collegiate American Football Association Top 8 season; 2016 Ritsumeikan Panthers football team; 2017 HUS Wolves football team
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.
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 ...
Teams with "L" have a J3 club license issued for the 2025 season. [1] Teams with "C" are company teams. Teams with "Un" are feeder (or "B") teams for their universities' main football teams. In the Regional Leagues, first divisions equal to Japanese fifth tier of league football, while second divisions equal to the sixth tier.
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.