Free Blades Golden Week events

The upstart ALIH team Tohoku Free Blades will be hosting promotional events in Fukushima and Sendai (two of their 3 home towns) on 3 and 5 May, the latter being Boy’s Day, a national holiday.

2009/Fukushima Airport YOU/YOUR Festival

[Event] 2009/Fukushima Airport YOU/YOUR Festival

[Date] 3 May (Sun) 9:00~16:00

[Location] Fukushima Airport

[Details] Take your shots event, autograph session

[Participating players] #9 Takuya Nakamura, #18 Kota Tanaka, #19 Kosuke Takahashi

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Ice Rink Sendai Golden Week Special Event

[Date] 5 May (Tue) 13:00~14:00

[Location] Ice Rink Sendai

[Details] Ice hockey shooting demo, skating class, autograph session

[Participating players] #8 Shuji Kikuchi, #16 Jeffrey Koichi Honma, #21 Kazuki Yamamoto, #41 Yujiro Kasahara

Yakult Atoms

As scheduled, the Tokyo Yakult Swallows wore their Yakult Atoms throwback away jerseys this weekend as part of Japan’s Golden Week promotions in a series against the Yomiuri Giants. The uniform, being a road jersey, says Yakult in the front like regular Swallows road jerseys, but the caps said “Ya” instaed of the usual “Ys” and the there was a Mighty Atom (Astro Boy) patch on the sleeves. Swallows, in a bit of a tailspin, managed to get swept by the Giants after sweeping them at home to open the series. The unis looked alright, but nothing spectacular. A Kokutetsu Swallows 

Just as a bonus, here’s the Swallows fans cheering with their umbrellas whenever the team scores and during the 7th inning stretch (Lucky 7).

Here’s the umbrella cheer song (Tokyo Ondo, a local festival song) in action.