Posts Tagged ‘Japan’

Photo Occasional | March 24 | Sapporo Fans

By Tom Dunmore • Mar 24th, 2008 • Category: Photography

VS Yokohama #5



Love, Revolution and Architecture: a Year in the Life of the Squirrel Nation, Part Three

By furtho • Jan 8th, 2008 • Category: World Football Culture

Read the final part of furtho’s brilliant three part series on Omiya Ardija, a Japanese team living in the shadow of their near neighbours, the Urawa Reds.



Love, Revolution and Architecture: a Year in the Life of the Squirrel Nation, Part Two

By furtho • Dec 17th, 2007 • Category: World Football Culture

Editor’s note: This is the second part in a three part series by furtho looking at Omiya Ardija, a Japanese team living in the shadow of their near neighbours, the Urawa Reds. Read the first part here, which looked at Omiya’s remarkable promotion to the top Japanese division, a joy tempered as their inadequate stadium […]



Love, Revolution and Architecture: a Year in the Life of the Squirrel Nation, Part One

By furtho • Dec 13th, 2007 • Category: World Football Culture

Editor’s note: Urawa Reds spent the past week basking in the global spotlight at the World Club Cup, but there’s more to Japanese football than them as Furtho explains in part one of a three part series looking at “Squirrel Nation”.

The Derby
There’s half an hour to go before kick-off. Away behind one goal, a huddled […]



Photo Daily | November 9 | Sapporo’s Mr Pitch

By Tom Dunmore • Nov 9th, 2007 • Category: Photography

Photo credit: Sasakei on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion photo pool.
That concludes our week-long look at Japanese football supporters. Special thanks go to Sasakei on Flickr.



Photo Daily | November 8 | Sapporo Fans Prepare for the Match

By Thomas Dunmore • Nov 8th, 2007 • Category: Photography

Photo credit: sasakei on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion photo pool.



Photo Daily | November 6 | Ultra nagasaki

By Thomas Dunmore • Nov 6th, 2007 • Category: Photography

Photo credit: kumama-republicUltra nagasaki on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion photo pool.



The Flags of Urawa Reds, AFC Champions League Semi-Final

By Thomas Dunmore • Nov 4th, 2007 • Category: Video, World Football Culture

I would not like to take a penalty in front of Urawa Reds’ supporters at their Saitama stadium, myself. Watch this shootout from an Asian Champions League semi-final against South Korea’s Seongnam Ilhwa last week, and marvel at the spectacle of the giant flags. It’s really no surprise they won, is it?

(By the way, we’ll […]