Okayama

Elementary was Tokushima.

And then I moved to Okayama.

Okayama is like next to Hiroshima.

So that's like how people who've never been to Japan can kind of picture it.

There was not many like mixed people around you?

And, yeah, I guess they're... struggling on the pitch as well as they sit 20th and bottom after 10 rounds.

All right, so we'll move on, Johnny, and next we'll talk about Okayama hosting Kobe in the other game on Sunday.

It was the only all-top-half series fixture on the slate.

And though Vissel's class eventually told as they ran out 3-0 winners, there were some very hairy moments at 0-0.

Yuya Osaka's scuffed volley bouncing down and going in off the inside of the post.

Then in the 56th minute, Osaka doubled his fun in far more convincing style, steering in ahead of from Yoshinori Muto's cross that was initially flagged offside by the linesman but allowed to stand by VAR.

And Vissel wrapped up the scoring in the 64th minute after a long throw, surprise, surprise, from Diego caused havoc in the Okayama box and ended with Matthias Thule blasting in from close range from a tight angle.

Of all the games so far, Johnny, although you've given praise to Fukuoka for their performance against Machida, to me, this one was the harshest on the losers.

"A single video wiped out more than a decade of what I had built." The video has since been deleted from Ikeda's YouTube channel, which has more than one million subscribers.

The other two defendants are Makoto Akagi and Yuki Yasuda, both company executives from Okayama who were arrested by Kyoto prefectural police on suspicion of attempted extortion.

They allegedly attempted to extort three billion yen from the deceased man in May twenty-twenty-five by threatening to post a video confronting him with allegations.

The man had consulted police before his death about a dispute with Akagi, forty-six, and Yasuda, thirty-five, over the acquisition of a company, according to prefectural police.

"A single video wiped out more than a decade of what I had built." The video has since been deleted from Ikeda's YouTube channel, which has more than 1 million subscribers.

The other two defendants are Makoto Akagi and Yuki Yasuda, both company executives from Okayama who were arrested by Kyoto Prefectural Police on suspicion of attempted extortion.

They allegedly attempted to extort 3 billion yen from the deceased man in May 2025 by threatening to post a video confronting him with allegations.

The man had consulted police before his death about a dispute with Akagi, 46, and Yasuda, 35, over the acquisition of a company, according to prefectural police.

Two of the children were appointed station master for the day by the head of Kochi Station.

They then gave the departure signal for a train bound for Okayama.

Railway Day marks the opening of Japan's first railway line in the Tokyo-Yokohama area in 1872.

And that wraps up this edition of NHK Newsline.

So whether you're staying in Asakusa or Shinjuku or wherever, um, Especially out in West Tokyo, there's so many places that rarely people go, but it's definitely worth visiting there.

Even if you're coming to Japan, going to even places like Ise Jingu, down in the south of Mie Prefecture, such a nice area, the most holy shrine in all of Japan's traditional Shinto religion, or like taking the train down to Kagawa and you get the view over the Seto Inland Sea as you're going from Okayama down into like the Takamatsu area.

The trains are, I think, the best way to travel Japan.

So really you have to take advantage of it and it's super worthwhile if you do.

I mean, it's a great train ride.

I took the train from Kyoto to Okayama and then, and then through Chicago down to Kochi.

Yeah.

And the train route is, it winds through the mountains.

They came over for our wedding.

And so before our wedding, we took my parents all around this area, like all around Okayama, and we went to Takamatsu, and we went to, I think we went to Kyoto and Osaka, around that area.

And he was sick the whole time from this chicken.

So it was really a