Japan disappoints with last-place finish in East Asian Cup

Perhaps a Japanese man's place is at home. Let the women do the work.

North Korea is the real surprise. :)

They should have let the women play.

They should have let the women play.

They did, they lost and came last as well.

Tinpot tournaments should be used to see what you've got coming up the in the ranks. Use them to see what kids hold up well. Judge him when he's got his best side out.

Samurai boo

They did, they lost and came last as well."

Japan 2:0 China.

Japan came in 3rd.

Check your facts before posting because the internet is not that difficult to navigate, ya no???

Japan was disappointing, but China actually disappointed me the most. Playing at home to experimental teams and still could only beat North Korea. They always have a few minutes of kung-fu goodness and then get schooled for the rest of the match.

What's Japanese for "wooden spoon"? And no, not the literal translation.

“We would have won the competition had we arrived here two or three days earlier,”

Bring on the sore losers! Yeah, SURE you would have won; if the Japan team weren't somehow unprepared while all the other teams were unfairly so, right? or maybe the other teams had taller players and so that's why?

"“We played quite a good game (against China), we played well enough to win,”

But you didn't. The same could be said about China -- they played a good game; good enough to win, if you want to say it about Japan in a 1-1 draw.

Disappointed with the coach. I expected to hear this from the media or from some fans, but for the coach to be such a sore loser already doesn't bode well for the upcoming qualifiers with Japan already doing so badly (ie. with the games preceding this Cup). The East Asian Cup itself means nothing in the grand scale of things, but it's somewhat indicative of what kind of team you're building in the future when the big stars have retired. So far, not looking good for Japan.

"They should have let the women play."..."They did, they lost and came last as well."

See...We have gender equality in Japan. Both men/women equally bad.