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Japan Energy Griffins
The Japan Energy Griffins were a Japanese basketball team that played in the Japan Basketball League. They were based in Tokyo. Notable players *Shigeaki Abe *Yoshihiko Amano * Mike Boyd (basketball, born 1972) *Corey Gaines * Alfred Grigsby * Kenichi Imaizumi *Takatoshi Ishibashi * Akira Kodama * Mototaka Kohama *Koju Munakata * Kunihiko Nakamura * Setsuo Nara * Tetsurō Noborisaka * Kenji Okamura * Yasukuni Ōshima *Eric Reveno * Hiroshi Saitō * Satoshi Sakumoto * Kiyomi Sato * Masashi Shiga * Shūtarō Shōji * Alex Stivrins * Kimikazu Suzuki *Tomohide Utsumi * Howard Wright Coaches *John Patrick (basketball) John Patrick (born February 29, 1968) is an American professional basketball coach and former professional basketball player. Career Patrick attended DeMatha Catholic High School, where he played under coach Morgan Wootten, before moving to Si ... References Defunct basketball teams in Japan Sports clubs and teams in Tokyo Basketball teams established in 1937 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was moved to Edo, which was renamed "Tokyo" (). Tokyo was devastate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
