JAPAN

Japan Football Association
3rd Floor
Shibuya Nomura Bldg
1-10-8 Dogenzaka
Shibuya-Ku
Tokyo 150-0043

Official website

Anthem

Goalkeepers Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi Seigo Narazaki Hitoshi Sogahata

Defenders Yutaka Akita Ryuzo Morioka Toshihiro Hattori Tsuneyasu Miyamoto Naoki Matsuda Koji Nakata

Midfielders Hiroaki Morishima Hidetoshi Nakata Takashi Fukunishi Alessandro Santos Kazuyuki Toda Tomokazu Myojin Mituso Ogasawara Junichi Inamoto Shinji Ono Daisuke Ichikawa

Strikers Takayuki Suzuki Atsushi Yanagisawa Akinori Nishizawa Masashi Nakayama

A good group for a home team. I think they might get through the group - but only just - and, if they do - they won't go any further (surely?).

(14/06/02 09:52:37) Might well go further, depending what kind of mood Turkey wake up with. Anyway, I've been quite delighted with them (Japan).

His Majesty's Reign

May thy peaceful reign last long!
May it last for thousands of years,
Until this tiny stone will grow into a massive rock
And the moss will cover it all deep and thick.

FAMOUS PEOPLE

Emperor Hirohito, Yukio Mishima (writer), Issey Miyake, Kenzo (fashion designers), Akira Kurosawa (film director), The Sea Slug (sumo wrestler), Godzilla (cartoon monster), Kendo Nagasaki (wrester)

RECIPE

Party Sushi Rolls

Rice: 2 cups white, short-grain rice, 3 cups water, 3 1/2 tbs rice or white vinegar, 1 tbs sugar, 1 1/2 tsp salt, 1 pk Nori seaweed, 1 bamboo mat

Filling: 1 cucumber cut into strips, 1 avodado cut into strips, fresh cilantro minced, 2 oz daikon radish cut into strips, 2 oz pickled ginger, 4 oz small shrimp, 4 oz prosciutto

Cook rice in water for about 25 minutes or until all liquid is absorbed. Spread evenly over the bottom of a large bowl. Mix vinegar, sugar and salt together and sprinkle it over rice. The rice should remain quite dry. Place one sheet of mori seaweed on the bamboo mat. Spread 3/4 cup rice onto seaweed and flatten with the back of a spoon. Leave 2 cm uncovered at each end of sheet. Place all the ingredients at centre. To form roll lift one end of the mat and begin to roll, compressing the seaweed. use the mat to help form the roll (it may be difficult at first to keep the mat from rolling with the seaweed). Moisten end of seaweed with a small amount of water to seal the roll. Cut into rolls 1/2 inch thick.

(They can keep this!)

Wash down with: Kirin or Sapporo