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Sugimoto was the landlord of the American Club spaces in Utsunomiya, and collected rent from the American Club through another company he owns, Mimasu Shoji, when the schools' teachers and secretaries were not being paid. [4] [9] By December 1995 the school was again three months late paying employees' wages. [2]
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.
An American arrested for defacing a sacred Tokyo shrine became the latest example of Japan's struggle to cope with misbehaving visitors amid a boom in inbound tourism. Japan welcomed nearly 27 ...
An American tourist was arrested in Japan for allegedly defacing a traditional wooden gate at a famous Tokyo shrine by etching letters on it, police said on Thursday.. Steve Hayes, a 65-year-old ...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan landed a spacecraft on the moon Saturday, an attempt at the world's first “pinpoint lunar landing." The milestone puts Japan in a club previously occupied by only the United ...
The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan (FCCJ) established in 1945 to provide support to foreign journalists working in Post-World War II Japan [1] has historically been situated in the vicinity of Ginza, Tokyo. Today, the club offers a workroom facility, a library, a restaurant, a bar, and a steady stream of local and international speakers ...
The Tokyo Comedy Store was founded in 1994 as the "Tokyo Comedy Club" by Kevin Burns. Burns gathered together stand-up comics and a hypnotist by placing many ads in the Tokyo Classifieds (now called The Metropolis), calling for performers. The first show was held at the Tokyo American Club, and the second at the British Club in Ebisu, Tokyo.