The Oriental Bio Silver Star are an American football team located in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa, Japan. They are a member of the X-League.
Team history 1970 Team founded as Asahi Beer Silver Star 1989 Won first Tokyo Super Bowl championship. 1993 Won first Rice Bowl National Championship. 1999 Won fourth Tokyo Super Bowl championship. 2009 Won Eastern divisional title. Advanced to the Final stage where they lost to eventual X-League runner up, the Fujitsu Frontiers 31–21. 2024 Asahi Breweries ends team sponsorship. Oriental Bio Co, LTD. takes over sponsorship. Team renamed Oriental Bio Silver Star
Seasons X-League champions (1987–present)Division championsFinal Stage/Semi-finals BerthWild Card /2nd Stage Berth
SeasonDivision Regular SeasonPostseason resultsAwardsHead coachesFinishWinsLossesTies1997East1st510Won Wild card match ( Nissan Prince Tokyo) 31–13Lost semi-finals match (at Matsushita Electric Works) 6–26Abe1998East2nd410Won Wild card match (at Matsushita Electric Works) 26–10Won Semi-finals match (Kashima) 38–13Lost Tokyo Super Bowl XII (at Recruit) 24–45Abe1999Central2nd410Won Wild card match (Onward) 23–13Won Semi-finals match (at Asahi Soft Drinks) 20–15Won Tokyo Super Bowl XIII (Kashima) 18–16Won 53rd Rice Bowl National Championship game (Kwansei Gakuin 33–17Abe2000East2nd420Lost Wild card match (at Asahi Soft Drinks) Abe2001Central2nd420Lost Wild card match (at Asahi Soft Drinks) 6–24Abe2002Central3rd330Fukabori2003East2nd622Won Wild Card match (at Kashima) 7–3Won Semi-finals match (at Matsushita Electric Works) 21–14Lost Japan X Bowl XVII (at Onward) 10–13 Fukabori2004East2nd540Won Wild Card match (at Asahi Soft Drinks) 10–7Won Semi-finals match (at Onward) 13–10Lost Japan X Bowl XVIII (at Matsushita Denko) 6–15 Fukabori2005Central2nd920 Won Wild Card match (at Asahi Soft Drinks) 22–19Lost semi-finals match (at Obic) 7–13Fukabori2006Central1st720 Lost Wild Card match (Kashima) 6–142007East3rd610 2008East3rd930 2009East1st820 Won 2nd stage match (Suita) 22–20Lost 2nd Stage match (Kashima) 14–24Lost final stage match (Fujitsu) 21–31Kiyoshi Oka2010East3rd640 Lost 2nd stage match (Panasonic) 19–24 Lost 2nd stage match (Fujitsu) 3–34Kiyoshi Oka2011Central3rd531Lost 2nd stage match (Panasonic) 10–28Lost 2nd stage match (Fujitsu) 14–58 Kiyoshi Oka2012East3rd630 Lost 2nd stage match (at Obic) 7–69Won 2nd stage match (Asahi Soft Drinks) 26–20 OTKiyoshi Oka2013East3rd430 Lost 2nd stage match (at Obic) 7–21Won 2nd stage match (Asahi Soft Drinks) 34–10Kiyoshi Oka2014Central3rd530 Lost 2nd stage match (at Fujitsu) 0–65Lost 2nd stage match (Panasonic) 3–65Kiyoshi Oka2015Central3rd610 Lost 2nd stage match (Panasonic) 14–38Lost 2nd Stage match (at Nojima Sagamihara) 7–14 OTMason Mills (ROY)Kiyoshi Oka2016East3rd450Lost quarterfinals match (at Panasonic) 14–21Won Super9/Battle9 classification match (All Mitsubishi) 17–0Kiyoshi Oka2017East3rd360Lost Wildcard match (All Mitsubishi) 17–20 Hayato Arima2018East3rd360Lost Wildcard match (All Mitsubishi) 6–17 Hayato Arima2019X1 Area East1st540Won X1 Area Final (Asahi Soft Drinks) 34–31Lost X1 Area-Super promotional match (at Nojima Sagamihara) 20–32 Hayato Arima2020X1 Area East210Hayato Arima2021X1 Area East1st600Hiroshi Kawamura (X1 Area MVP)Hayato Arima2022X1 Super Div. A4th230Lost quarterfinals match (at Fujitsu) 3–53Hayato Arima2023X1 Super Div. B4th340Lost quarterfinals match (at Panasonic) 0–27Hayato Arima2024X1 Super 9th350Hayato Arima2025X1 Super Central3rd260Kiyoshi OkaTotal127773(1997–2025, includes only regular season)16240(1997–2025, includes only playoffs)1431013(1997–2025, includes both regular season and playoffs)
Current import players Jersey #NamePositionYears with the teamAlma materAchievements #11 Donovan Isom QB 2025–present Texas Wesleyan University #1 Devin Phelps WR 2023–present Shepherd #90 Nicolas Rabi DL 2024–present Southern Illinois University
Former import players NamePositionYears with the teamAlma materAchievements Darrius Sample QB 2024 University at Albany Jimmy Laughrea QB 2022–2023 UC Davis Ponce de Leon DB 2023 Shepherd Ryan Boehm DL 2022–2023 Fresno State Team MVP award (2022), Team Defensive Player of the Year award (2022) Ridge Jones WR 2019 New Mexico KeDarius Humphries QB 2019 Murray State Jonah Hodges RB 2018–2019 San Diego Anthony Wallace LB 2019–2020 North Texas Jared Stegman QB 2018 Queensland Mason Mills QB 2015–2016 San Diego ROY award (2015), All X-League Team member (2015) Roman Wilson WR 2015 Princeton All X-League Team member (2015)
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External links (Japanese)