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Former Madura United Man Oti Lands Vegalta Move
Danish Superliga. Liga 1 Indonesia. LigaPro Portugal. J.League 1. Not many players can boast such unique career movements but Ghanaian winger Emmanuel Oti Essigba is one such player. The 24-year old has just landed a move to J1 strugglers Vegalta Sendai, with the Miyagi Prefecture-based club arming themselves for a tough 2021 season ahead of them. Vegalta, who finished 17th in the 18-team 2020 J1 season, brought in Oti as an additional attacking option from the wings for new head coach Makoto Teguramori, who is returning to Vegalta for a second stint with the men in yellow after spending the p...
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Shimadzu to begin exporting reagent kits for COVID-19 detection
SINGAPORE, NNA - Japan's Shimadzu Corp. said Thursday it will begin full-fledged exports of its reagent kits for detecting the novel coronavirus through PCR testing, starting with Southeast Asia. The Kyoto-based major manufacturer of medical equipment and precision instruments said it has obtained provisional authorization from Singapore's Health Sciences Authority to sell the kits. Shimadzu will begin exporting the new product via Shimadzu (Asia Pacific) Pte. Ltd., a regional arm based in Singapore, in early February. Negotiations are under way between the company and other Southeast Asian co...
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【日本代表】上野優作氏がコーチ就任 森保監督、反町委員長との関係重視の人選
日本サッカー協会は２１日、日本代表コーチに上野優作氏（４７）の就任を発表した。 森保ジャパンは現在東...
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OPINION: Reacting to 2020 J.League 1 Predictions
Football Tribe Asia's Krishna Sadhana reflects on the predictions that he made for the recently-concluded 2020 J.League 1 season. Before the start of the 2020 J1 season, Krishna made three prediction articles of the season and now with the dust settled and Kawasaki Frontale being crowned champions, it's time to compare Krishna's predictions with the real life results - how did he get on? Did he get most of his predictions right? Or did Krishna messed up his predictions? Before the start of the 2020 J.League 1 season, I took the liberty of predicting how the league would pan out after 34 round ...
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Marugame Udon noodle chain expanding in Southeast Asia
JAKARTA, NNA - Tokyo-based dining chain operator Toridoll Holdings Corp. has recently opened new outlets serving Japanese-style udon noodles under the Marugame Udon brand in three Southeast Asian countries. Tridoll opened four outlets in Indonesia, two in Vietnam and one in the Philippines over a two-month period and now operates 240 outlets that have rights to the brand, also known as Marugame Seimen, outside Japan, according to the company and the brand's local operator in Jakarta. In Indonesia, one restaurant each opened in Jakarta and Bogor, while one delivery-only shop started operations ...
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Marubeni, Mitsubishi Estate expanding residential projects in China
TOKYO, NNA - Trading house Marubeni Corp. and property developer Mitsubishi Estate Residence Co. are engaging in new residential projects in the northeastern Chinese city of Changchun with a local partner. Construction work on one project will begin in March to provide about 1,400 residential units in an area where robust relocation demand is expected, with the completion scheduled for September 2024, the two Japanese companies said Friday in a press release. The groundbreaking took place last October in the other scheme designed to provide about 2,100 units for completion in December 2024, ai...
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Olunga Thanks Reysol as He Makes Al-Duhail Debut
Kenyan striker Michael Olunga has taken to social media to thank Kashiwa Reysol and their fans for their support towards him at the club, as he turned out for new club Al-Duhail of Qatar in a 3-1 defeat at the hands of Al-Sadd in the Qatar Stars League. Olunga made his official debut for Al-Duhail on Tuesday however his signing was not announced by the Qatari giants until Saturday, around the same time Olunga paid tribute to Kashiwa and the J.League paid their own tribute to the 2020 season MVP and Golden Boot winner. Arriving at Kashiwa from then-Chinese Super League side Guizhou Hengfeng in ...
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Japanese hi-tech duo eyes Vietnam's OCR market with AI-based service
HANOI, NNA - Japan's AI inside Inc. has teamed with a Vietnamese affiliate of Japanese telecommunications company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corp. to market an artificial intelligence-equipped optical character recognition service in Vietnam. AI inside announced the partnership with OCG Technology Joint Stock Co., based in Hanoi, on Thursday for the cloud-based "DX Suite" service that scans accounting slips and other documents hand-written in Vietnamese for conversion into printed matter. Equipped with deep-learning AI technology developed by AI inside, the optical character-reading s...
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King Kazu Extends Contract, Set to Play Beyond 54th Birthday
Yokohama FC's very own Kazuyoshi Miura has once again signed a one-year extension on his contract with the club, ensuring that the evergreen striker would get at least one more year of professional football. The extension meant that 53-year old King Kazu is set to broke more records in the 2021 season as the J.League's oldest active player, with a possibility of him playing past his 54th birthday. Signing his contract extension on Monday, Miura relishes the prospect of embarking on his 36th year as a professional footballer. "I have renewed my contract with Yokohama FC for the 2021 season," Mi...
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【森保ジャパン】３月Ｗ杯予選どうなる？ 反町康治技術委員長「方針に従ってやるしかない」
日本サッカー協会は１４日に技術委員会を開催し、会議後にオンラインで取材に応じた反町康治技術委員長（５...
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