The Club was first created as the Shizuoka Ken Cricket Club in Autumn 1983 by three cricket crazy blokes, namely David Hunt (Yorkshire), John Elliott(Durham) and Robert-Gilles Martineau(Bourgogne, France. Actually cricket is being played and sponsored by a famous winery in Burgundy!). The first game was played on November the 3rd, 1984 against the Yokohama Country & Athletics Club. There are still three participants in that historic game active in Japan: Richard Anthony "Tony" Fordyce(England) of the YCAC as well as Masataka Bizen (Japan) and Robert-Gilles "Grandad" Martineau (France) of the Shizuoka Ken CC. The Shizuoka side even featured a lady, namely Sally Louis, from Wales, who actually bowled very well, and a Japanese rugby player, Masami Watanabe, who came and played shod in rugger shoes! 
Mucha Cricket & Petanque Club was created by Hisatsugu Umehara and Yoshinori Sugisaki in 1992. 
Fuji Cricket Club was founded by Glenn Carter in 1993 after a fateful meeting between Glenn Carter(Australia), Patrick Harrington (England) and Robert-Gilles Martineau at the now-defunct  Bandwagon Bar in Shizuoka City. Glenn had a mat fixed on a concrete pitch near the Fujikawa River. Would you believe that on a single  photograph taken on a clear day you can see the cricket pitch, the Shinkansen bullet train and Mount Fuji! 
Shizuoka Ken CC changed its name to Shizuoka Kytes Cricket Club in 1997, based on all the birds of prey flying over the pitch! 
Shizuoka County Cricket Club was founded in 1998 to synchronise all cricket activities in Shizuoka Prefecture. 
Meanwhile Professor Makoto Yamada of Kobe City International Studies University and Robert-Gilles Martineau helped create the Japan Cricket Association in  July 1988 and have it accepted as an Affiliate Member of the ICC with the backing of England in July 1989. 
The Club has already organised tours to various parts of Japan including Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto, Takamatsu (Shikoku) and Shodoshima Island as well as four tours to New Caledonia. It has also sent Japanese University Cricket Players to English & Cricket Seminars in England. 
Finally we put our own homepage online on March the 22nd, 1999 not only to advertise ourselves but also to be of some use for the whole cricket community in Japan!