Sports 1999-2000 | Archives | Trends in Japan | Web Japan
Trends in Japan Archives Olympic Glory Martial-Arts Superstar Dies Ticket Frenzy Kicks Off Dreaming of Gold Record Rush Triumph at Suzuka On the Rebound Kicking Around Play Ball! The Road to 2002 A D

01-02 | Sports | Memory Lane | Trends in Japan | Web Japan
In recent years athletes from Japan - the home of traditional martial arts like karate and kendo - have making their mark in all kinds of disciplines, including Major League Baseball and top European soccer leagues. Read about their exploits here.

99-00 | Sports | Memory Lane | Trends in Japan | Web Japan
In recent years athletes from Japan - the home of traditional martial arts like karate and kendo - have making their mark in all kinds of disciplines, including Major League Baseball and top European soccer leagues. Read about their exploits here.

Sports 1997-1998 | Archives | Trends in Japan | Web Japan
Trends in Japan Archives Japan's Marathon Queens World-Class Coaching No Holds Barred Boys of Summer Big Brothers Athletes out of Work Play Ball! See You in France Japan's Outdoor Craze This site us

Sports 2003-2004 | Archives | Trends in Japan | Web Japan
Trends in Japan Archives League Without Borders Getting a Kick from Futsal Little Man on a Big Stage Paralympic Glory Hitting New Heights The Secret of Japan's Olympic Success Fast Breaking to Athens

Sports 2003-2004 | Archives | Trends in Japan | Web Japan
Trends in Japan Archives League Without Borders Getting a Kick from Futsal Little Man on a Big Stage Paralympic Glory Hitting New Heights The Secret of Japan's Olympic Success Fast Breaking to Athens

97-98 | Sports | Memory Lane | Trends in Japan | Web Japan
In recent years athletes from Japan - the home of traditional martial arts like karate and kendo - have making their mark in all kinds of disciplines, including Major League Baseball and top European soccer leagues. Read about their exploits here.

Sports 2005-2006 | Archives | Trends in Japan | Web Japan
Trends in Japan Archives Strength In Numbers Clothes that Keep You Fit 600 Million Yen Baby Grappling for the Top Spot Keeping Mountains Clean Dreaming of Germany The Arakawa Effect Trainer to the Ch

Sports 2007-2008 | Archives | Trends in Japan | Web Japan
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Sports 1995-1996 | Archives | Trends in Japan | Web Japan
Trends in Japan Archives Dual Roles for Olympic Medalist Baseball Gets Youngest 200 Million Yen Player This site uses JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings. Go to the main

Sports 2005-2006 | Archives | Trends in Japan | Web Japan
Trends in Japan Archives Strength In Numbers Clothes that Keep You Fit 600 Million Yen Baby Grappling for the Top Spot Keeping Mountains Clean Dreaming of Germany The Arakawa Effect Trainer to the Ch

Sports 2007-2008 | Archives | Trends in Japan | Web Japan
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95-96 | Sports | Memory Lane | Trends in Japan | Web Japan
In recent years athletes from Japan - the home of traditional martial arts like karate and kendo - have making their mark in all kinds of disciplines, including Major League Baseball and top European soccer leagues. Read about their exploits here.

Action Simulation Games - What's Cool in Japan - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Here a person swings a baseball bat, over there another shoots a soccer ball, and still others beat Japanese drums or dance to music. They're all soaking with sweat, and they're all in the same space. Where is this?

Dance Exercise - What's Cool in Japan - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
More and more Japanese kids are moving their bodies to a swinging tempo while singing feel-good melodies. Singing Ai-da Aida Ai-da Aida in unison, they jump, dodge, and twist to the rhythm. "My body just starts to move whenever I hear the music," says one. Dance-like exercise is growing in popularity.

Showdown - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
On August 6 a plane touched down at the New Tokyo International Airport at Narita carrying 14 little leaguers from New York, their manager, parents, and others. They were coming to play a group of young all-stars from Tokyo in the Tokyo-New York Friendship Baseball Series, played using a special rubber-coated ball.

Kobe - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
On January 17, 2001, the sixth anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake that claimed more than 6,400 lives, 50 runners set out on a cross-country journey carrying messages of thanks from citizens of the hardest-hit port city of Kobe to volunteers who came to their aid from all over the country.

Sailing - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
The 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, which came to a close on October 14, were described by the Japanese delegation leader as "the toughest games ever." But two middle-school kids still managed to win gold and silver medals for Japan.

Everest - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
A Japanese alpinist-adventurer who became the youngest in the world to stand atop the highest peaks in the seven continents by scaling Mount Everest at the age of 25 in May 1999 returned to the world's tallest mountain a year later to clean up garbage left by his peers over the years.

Fuji - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Some 200 Japanese and American cancer patients, backed by as many relatives and volunteers, reached the top of Mount Fuji, the tallest mountain in Japan, on the early morning of August 22.