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BASKETBALL / B. League

Jets oust Brex to clinch Championship berth

By Ed Odeven
Staff Writer

May 5, 2019

FUNABASHI, CHIBA PREF. – The Chiba Jets Funabashi soared to great heights during the regular season.

But the East Division champions had higher aspirations all along, and the team’s third straight Emperor’s Cup title in January provided the biggest hint of all.

The Jets, the 2017-18 title runners-up, ascended one step closer to their ultimate target on Sunday, defeating the Tochigi Brex 88-83 in Game 2 of the East rivals’ B. League Championship semifinal series at Funabashi Arena.

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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