The 12 days of HPNXmas is our way of giving back over the holiday period, and providing a place for some of our thoughts that didn’t get run for whatever reason during the year.
Japanese Professional Sporting Team Names and Logos, Ranked
Teams have been selected from Japanese professional and semi-professional sporting leagues, including Basketball, Volleyball, Soccer, American Football and Rugby. Not all teams have been ranked – the Kintetsu Liners are considered to have a “replacement level” name. All names below that are considered “ordinary” or worse.
Some substantially weirder names exist at the amateur level, for which we invite you to peruse this post.
No correspondence will be entered into on these rankings.
- Tokyo Gas Creators
- Toshiba Brave Lupus
- Toyota Auto Body Queenseis
- Aomori Wat’s
- Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
- Bambitious Nara
- Tokyo Yakult Swallows
- Mitsubishi Dynaboars
- Earth Friends Tokyo Z
- Toyota Verblitz
- Kyuden Voltex
- Hiroshima Toyo Carp
- JT Marvelous
- Sagan Tosu
- Yokohama B-Corsairs
- Pass Labs Yamagata Wyverns
- NEC Red Rockets
- Toyama Grouses
- Tohoku Free Blades
- Gunma Crane Thunders
- Tokyo Excellence
- Meiji Yasuda PentaOcean Pirates
- NTT Shining Arcs
- Kagawa Five Arrows
- Panasonic Wild Knights
- Kyoto Hannaryz
- Akita Northern Happinets
- Fukushima Firebonds
- Ehime Orange Vikings
- JT Thunders
- Toyoda Gosei Trefuerza
- Shimizu S-Pulse
- Kintetsu Liners