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On June 10th the Aomori Prefectural Sports Association handed down a warning to the Aomori Athletics Association after a former AAA director who resigned in April this year had improperly used funds to buy home appliances for personal use in 2019. The director, who had been in charge of accounting at the AAA, conducted a bank transfer of over 180,000 yen (~$1650 USD at the time) from the AAA account to pay for the appliances. The director was found to have created false documents to cover the purchase, which was conducted online. The fraud was discovered in May, 2019 after other members of the AAA executive board investigated, and the director repaid the full amount the next month. These details of the case had been kept internally among the executive board for the last five years. In the APSA censure issued this week, it directed the AAA to take action to ensure proper management and operation procedures. source article: https://www.aba-net.com/news/news-115299.html translated and ...

Last week the Hokkaido Athletics Association revealed that it has not paid the JAAF ¥7.35 million [~$49,000 USD] it collected in membership fees and licensing of officials within the precfecture in 2022. The HAA said that due to a drop in income and rise in costs it had been forced to divert the funds to pay for other activities such as training camps, and that it has asked its member local athletics associations for further financial support. According to the HAA, in the 2022 fiscal year it collected approximately ¥19 million [~$127,000 USD] in membership fees from roughly 11,600 people, including junior high school students, high school students, adults, and officials. A JAAF statement said that "members will not be held responsible" for the situation, and that their 2022 results would still be accepted as valid despite the prefectural association's non-payment of their membership fees to the national organization. The HAA has operated at a loss for the last 10 years ...

http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2011/12/19/kiji/K20111219002272200.html translated and edited by Brett Larner Having pulled out of the Dec. 18 National Corporate Women's Ekiden Championships, marathon national record holder Mizuki Noguchi  cheered for her Sysmex teammates at the Third Stage handoff point and at the stadium finish.  After nearly winning their regional qualifier, without Noguchi at the National Championships Sysmex finished only 15th. Following the ekiden Noguchi announced that she will run the Dec. 23 Sanyo Women's Road Race half-marathon as a tune-up for the Jan. 29 Osaka International Women's Marathon.  It will be Noguchi's first individual race since the 2008 Sendai International Half Marathon, but, she says, "I'm not going to set a time goal.  I'm just going to run based on my condition that day." Half-marathon national record holder Kayoko Fukushi  (Team Wacoal) also announced after the ekiden that she will run Osaka ...