According to the stakeholders, Nippon Paper Cranes has decided that the team's abolition department in the season has been decided and that the abolition was reported to staff and athletes on 18th.

Crane is based in Hokkaido Kushiro city, where ice hockey is popular, was founded as the predecessor of the Jujo Paper Ice Hockey Department in Showa 24 and joined the Japan League in Showa 49 in 1954.

It was a powerful four-time winner in the Asian league which was renamed to the present team name in 1995 through merger of the parent company in 1993 and started in Heisei era.

This season was 2nd in the 8th team, 3rd in the All Japan Championship held until 16th.

The Japanese society ice hockey, the team's abolition department successively in the 1990's, SEIBU became abolished in the Asian league Japanese team in the 2008-21 season.