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Chiba set for semifinal clash with Tochigi; Ryukyu faces Tokyo

Chiba Jets guard Yuki Togashi has played a key role in the team's run to the playoff semifinals, including last weekend's sweep of the Toyama Grouses at Funabashi Arena. | B. LEAGUE

Chiba Jets guard Yuki Togashi has played a key role in the team's run to the playoff semifinals, including last weekend's sweep of the Toyama Grouses at Funabashi Arena. | B. LEAGUE

By Ed Odeven
Staff Writer

May 2, 2019

Motivation can be a powerful emotion in sports.

For the Chiba Jets Funabashi, last season’s defeat in the B. League Championship final to the Alvark Tokyo has been their motivational force throughout this season.

Jets shooting guard Kosuke Ishii admitted as much after Chiba’s 96-85, series-clinching victory over the visiting Toyama Grouses at Funabashi Arena on Sunday, a win that propelled the Jets into the playoff semifinals.

Amid the heat and humidity in Japan, a good night’s sleep is growing increasingly elusive without the heavy use of air conditioning.

Summer has arrived in Japan and so have hot sleepless nights

By Tomoko Otake

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan’s landscape that they often go unnoticed.

Why Japan’s utility poles won’t be disappearing anytime soon

By Alex K.T. Martin

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