Here are a few pictures of the University of Tsukuba's women's hockey team that were taken at the 5th Annual Nortel World Ice Hockey 5's tournament in Hong Kong in 1997. Here is a little information about hockey within Japan. He is studing civil engineering at the university. He enjoys both playing and watching ice hockey in Japan. NHL hockey can be watched on TV once a week in Japan.
Ice hockey is very popular here compared with another city in Japan.
In Tokyo there are some womens' hockey teams in the universities. But I don't know about the details of them. I think maybe there are some womens' hockey leageus in Tokyo. In Sendai there are a few women's hockey team. Some girls who are in elementary shool or junior high school, play with boys who are the same age.