Urawa Red Diamonds Urawa Red Diamonds , colloquially Urawa Reds, are a professional association football club playing in Japan's football league, J1 League. The name Red Diamonds alludes to the club's pre-professional era parent company Mitsubishi. The corporation's logo consists of three red diamonds, one of which remains within the current club badge. Its hometown is the city of Saitama in Saitama Prefecture, but its name comes from the former city of Urawa, which is now a part of Saitama City. Shin-Mitsubishi Heavy Industries established a football club in 1950 in Kobe and moved the club to Tokyo in 1958. In 1965 it
Monkeys in Japanese culture and attend upon him. My name is Saruta-hiko no Oho-kami." (tr. Aston 1912:77) Sarutahito later marries Ame-no-Uzume. Ohnuki-Tierney (1987:42-43) lists three factors that identify Sarutahiko as a Monkey Deity: "saru" means "monkey", his features "include red buttocks, which are a prominent characteristic of Japanese macaques", and as macaques gather shellfish at low tide, the "Kojiki" says his hand got caught in a shell while fishing and "a monkey with one hand caught in a shell is a frequent theme of Japanese folktales". Another Shinto monkey myth concerns the God of Lightning Raijin who is accompanied by shape-shifting "raijū" (雷獣,"thunder beast")