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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.
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. Each league has at least two tiers of program. The top or first tier is the only one that sends teams to the post season tournament.
Since 1984, JAFA has organized and sponsored the Rice Bowl, a championship game played between the Japanese college national champion and the X-League champion. It also organizes the Japan national American football teams.
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 ...
The Kantoh League is a major college football league in eastern Japan. The league is divided into seven divisions. The winner of the league goes on to play in the Koshien Bowl against a team from the West Japan. The winner of the bowl may advance to play the champion of the X-League in the Rice Bowl.
The Panasonic Impulse is an American football team based in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan.The Impulse compete in the X-League, and are a member of the top tier X1 Super division along with Fujitsu Frontiers, Obic Seagulls, IBM Big Blue, Nojima Sagamihara Rise, Elecom Kobe Finies, Tokyo Gas Creators, and All Mitsubishi Lions.
X-League (Japan), an American football league based in Japan that was founded in 1971; X-League Indoor Football, an indoor American football league that played in 2014–2015; Xleague.tv, a UK broadcast production unit that operated during 2007–2009; X League (women's football), a women's American football league that began play in 2022
The Tokai American Football Association (東海学生アメリカンフットボール連盟) (sometimes stylized as the "ToKai") is an American college football league made up of colleges and universities in the Tōkai region of Japan.