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Flawed Strategy, Mistakes Jeopardizing Tokyo's Bid To Host 2020 Olympics05 / 22 / 13With just over three months until the IOC votes on the 2020 Olympic host city, the bid "seems adrift and still lacking a cogent message about why Tokyo should host the biggest global sporting event," according to Jack Gallagher of the JAPAN TIMES. Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose’s recent "unfortunate c... |
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Island Disputes Could Affect Tokyo 2020
The vote to determine the host of the 2020 Olympic Games is less than one year away, and Tokyo's chances of landing the event "could slip away in the wake of Japan's ongoing involvement in island disputes with South Korea, China, Russia and Taiwan," according to Gallagher & Odeven of THE JAPAN T ...
China To Rebrand 'Japanese' Marathon
The "gathering Sino-Japanese storm over a set of disputed islands has sent Shanghai authorities sprinting away from the Tokyo chemical company that has sponsored one of the city’s proudest sporting events for the past 16 years," according to James Areddy of the WALL STREET JOURNAL. A press co ...
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Japan Agrees To The WBC
Japanese players have agreed to take part in the 2013 World Baseball Classic, "backing off a threat to boycott the event because of a dispute" over how tournament money is shared, according to the AP. The players' union had demanded that two-time defending champion Japan "control all the sponsorship ...
Japanese To Appeal Against the IOC
The Japanese Olympic Committee will appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against the IOC's decision to void hammer thrower Koji Murofushi's election to the IOC Athletes' Commission, according to KYODO. The JOC "believes there has been a misinterpretation of the rules," and although it plans ...
JOC Mistake Costs Hammer Thrower
The IOC cautioned Japan's Olympic body during the London Games over a handbook that urged its athletes to vote for hammer thrower Koji Murafushi in his campaign to win a seat on the IOC's Athlete's Commission, according to KYODO. The Bronze Medal-winning hammer thrower received enough votes to win e ...
J.League Reveals '11 Team Finances
The number of teams in the J.League's J1 operating at a loss decreased from 10 to eight since '10, recently disclosed management information of its 38 participating teams in '11 revealed, according to NIKKEI. In J2, meanwhile, teams operating at a loss rose from eight to 10. J1 team Urawa Reds "led ...
NPB Leverages Sponsor For WBC
After discussing a number of issues with World Baseball Classic organizers following the Japan Professional Baseball Players Association refusing to participate, the Nippon Professional Baseball league revealed that it "owns certain rights to sponsorship revenues stemming from Samurai Japan's partic ...
JOC Asks For Murofushi Re-Investigation
The Japanese Olympic Committee has asked the IOC to "re-investigate its decision to void hammer thrower Koji Murofushi's election to the IOC Athletes' Commission," according to KYODO. Murofushi, a Bronze Medalist at the London Games, garnered enough votes to gain election to the Athletes' Commission ...
NPB Discusses World Baseball Classic
Execs from the 12 teams of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball league will meet on Aug. 20 to discuss a strategy regarding how to persuade NPB's players union to participate in the 2013 World Baseball Classic. Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters exec Toshimasa Shimada, who chairs NPB's committee on int'l ...
WBC Won't Change Revenue Distribution
Representatives of Nippon Professional Baseball met with World Baseball Classic organizers on Monday "in hopes of renegotiating Japan's share of tournament revenues," according to KYODO. However, WBC Inc. "showed no willingness to change the current arrangements." MLB Asia VP Jim Small said that the ...
