What is the Japan 100 Year Vision League?

Changes are underway for Japan's top flight, Tom Aplin is at hand to explain what is going on

Welcome to this month’s piece.

This time, we’re stepping back from matchday drama to look at something bigger; the long-term project that has shaped Japanese football for the past three decades.

With the league preparing for its most significant structural shift yet, it feels like the right moment to revisit and understand the advancements the J.League has made and continues to make, it. Kicking off in 1993, it did so with ten clubs and a sense that Japanese football was being rebuilt from the ground up.