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Big 4 advance to semifinals in Japan’s Pearl Bowl
The stage is set for the semi-finals of the 2017 Pearl Bowl. On Sunday at Fujitsu Stadium Kawasaki we will find out which two teams...
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Big 4 dominate as Japan’s Pearl Bowl kicks off
In a collaboration with InsideSport:Japan, AFI presents the first in a series of articles covering the annual spring American football tournament, the Pearl Bowl. Japanese...
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Fujitsu Frontiers Soar Past Kwansei Gakuin Fighters En Route To Rice Bowl Victory
The X League champion Fujitsu Frontiers led by American QB Colby Cameron (Louisiana Tech) defeated Japan’s collegiate champion the Kwansei Gakuin Fighters 30-13 in front of over...
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Japan’s Top College Team Challenges X League Champion In Rice Bowl
The last game of the Japanese football season sees college champion the Kwansei Gakuin Fighters take on X-League winner the Fujitsu Frontiers in the Rice...
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Fujitsu Frontiers Smother Obic Seagulls To Capture Japan X Bowl 30
The Fujitsu Frontiers broke their championship jinx against the Obic Seagulls Monday in the Tokyo Dome defeating their arch rivals 16-3 in front of 25,445...
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Countdown To Japan X Bowl 30 – Watch Interviews & Preview
Japan’s X Bowl kicks off Monday, December 12 at 7 PM at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo. The Fujitsu Frontiers and Obic Seagulls will battle...
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Obic Seagulls, Fujitsu Frontiers Advance to the Japan X Bowl
So the 18 teams who started the season in Japan’s X League have been narrowed down to two. The Obic Seagulls and Fujitsu Frontiers survived...
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Japan’s X league Semifinals Promise Two Thrillers
The semi finals of the Japan X Bowl kick off simultaneously this Sunday in Kawasaki, where IBM Big Blue face Obic Seagulls, and Osaka, with...
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Watch Playoff Action Live From Japan!
The first three games from Japan’s X League quarterfinal playoffs take place Saturday November 12 and you can watch them all live here. Games 1,...
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Playoffs Kick Off In Japan With A Bang
Chris Boswell, the Pittsburgh Steelers kicker who botched a onside kickoff attempt last weekend against the Baltimore Ravens actually succeeded with a similar kick in...
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Japan’s X League Playoff Schedule Set
A thrilling regular season came a conclusion last weekend in Japan’s X League with nail biting finishes. The 18 teams that started the 2016 season...
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AFI’s Japan X League Top 10
November marks the start of playoff time in the X League, where the top 8 teams from the league’s Super 9 and the top 2...
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Fujitsu Frontiers Beat Panasonic Impulse in Rematch of Japan’s X Bowl
As the X League in Japan enters October, the key matchup this past weekend was the a battle of the undefeateds and the two 2015...
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Japan’s X-League underway with new format
Japan’s top American football league, the X League, is underway and has changed its format for the 2016 season. The goal of the move was to...
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Highlights From Japan: Lixil Deers Defeated Fujitsu Frontiers in Dramatic Style
The Lixil Deers overcame an 11 point third quarter deficit to clinch a 32-28 victory over the Fujitsu Frontiers at Fujitsu Stadium in Kawasaki, Japan...
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Japan’s X-League Spring Pearl Bowl Tournament Underway
Photographer/reporter John Gunning, attended a wonderful Sunday of American football in Japan as the X League annual Pearl Bowl tournament was in full swing. The...
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Panasonic Impulse Come From Behind To Capture X Bowl Title in Japan
Down 21-10 midway through the fourth quarter, the Panasonic Impulse rallied scoring two late touchdowns, one with a minute left, to stun the defending champion Fujitsu...
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Japan’s X Bowl XXIX A Battle of Undefeated Teams
Japan’s X Bowl XXIX features an ideal championship matchup as it pits two high-powered undefeated teams against one another. The defending champion 8-0 Fujitsu Frontiers with the...
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Panasonic Impulse Broke New Ground To Make It to Japan’s X Bowl Championship
The Panasonic Impulse are making their first trip to Japan’s X Bowl in five years. And they are doing it this time with a far different...
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Undefeated Fujitsu Frontiers, Panasonic Impulse Head to Japan X Bowl
It has been five years in the making but the Fujitsu Frontiers and the Panasonic Impulse will face each again for the Japanese X-League championship...
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LIVE STREAM & PREVIEW: Japan’s X-League Final Four This Weekend
Japan’s top American football league – the X-League – is down to its final four teams as 14 clubs have been eliminated in group and...
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Final Weekend in Japan’s X League Super 9, semifinal spots set
The Super 9 stage of Japan’s X League playoff format wound up on the weekend. Although two of the three games had no bearing on...
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LIVESTREAM & PREVIEW: X League in Japan Enters Crucial Final Super 9 Weekend
As Japan’s X League heads into the final weekend of play three teams are already set for the semifinal round. The Panasonic Impulse, Fujitsu Frontiers and Nojima...
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Japan’s X League, Pivotal Weekend in Super 9
The second weekend of action in the Super 9 stage of Japan’s X League produced two lopsided wins and a tense victory as the Nojima...
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Foreign Quarterbacks Raising Standards in Japan’s X League
Frontiers quarterback Colby Cameron runs against the Rise during a game in Kawasaki last month. The American led Fujitsu to the X League title last...
