Japanese-American Perspectives

According to Sanspo, it seems like Kobe will temporarily end all contracts with players at the end of September.

There are a number of team events in October, along with the Championship tournament (forgot about that one), that may require the players to be under contract. Due to this reason, the club would like to sit down with the players and discuss what can be done in October.

Looks like things are so bad at the Kobe 9 Cruise right now that players won't be getting a pay check in October. The team has said it will, however, pay for August and September salaries. And it sounds like the Akashi Red Soldiers and the Kishu Rangers are thinking about defaulting on October salaries as well.

Players were originally told they would be paid 200,000yen per month between February and October, a period of 9 months. But ever since Stella announced it wouldn't be able ...

Osaka announced on Monday that the league will be providing them with some financial relief after they announced that they were going to slash player salaries by 50%. The ball club has already cut salaries in half for all players earning 200,000yen per month.

Osaka said that it will use the money they receive from the league to pay their players.

Osaka club rep Urano said, "Despite making cut backs and finding additional sponsor, we're still projecting to be 18Myen ...

Of the four team in the Kansai Independent League, two will undergo fairly significant pay cuts, starting this month. Osaka players will be getting a 50% pay cut while Kishu players will be receiving a 30% cut in pay.

All four teams were originally paying their players about 200,000yen (~US$2,000) a month in guaranteed salary, but due to problems with league funding, each team only has about 120M yen (~US$1.2M) for the entire year, but both Osaka and Kishu are expecting something much ...