Japan football players to form union

TOKYO, Mar 9 (AFP): Japanese football players are to form a union to demand better working conditions, including bigger rewards for international duty, their association said Wednesday. The Japan Pro-Footballers Association (JPFA), currently representing some 960 players at home and abroad as a fraternal body, said it had decided to register itself as a labour union with the right to collective bargaining and strikes. The decision was made by a majority vote at a special JPFA general meeting on February 28, the JPFA said in a press release.