Foreign Player Ban in Japan [Archive]


	HFBoards > Hockey Talk by Country > Hockey Talk by Country > Foreign Player Ban in Japan PDA Foreign Player Ban in Japan mcgpgh 01-05-2009, 07:52 PM Does anyone know when Japan lifted its ban on foreign players that was instituted in the mid-1980s or so? I believe that those of full or partial Japanese ancestry were allowed to play in the old Japan Ice Hockey League starting in the mid-1990s, but what about non-Japanese foreign players? Thanks. adamkex 09-14-2010, 09:09 PM Esa Tikkanen played in Japan IIHFjerseycollector 09-14-2010, 09:42 PM hi, http://forums.internationalhockey.net/ H A L L elujah 4 09-15-2010, 02:13 AM Esa Tikkanen played in Japan Yep he did.