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Daily Times May 28, 2021 Japan thrashed Myanmar 10-0 on Friday to cruise into the third round of Asian World Cup qualifying, after protesters had raised anti-junta three-fingered salutes on and off the pitch. Around 70 protesters gathered before kick-off outside the stadium in Chiba, near Tokyo, carrying pictures of detained Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and waving flags from the country’s 1988 uprising. And TV pictures showed a lone Myanmar player raising the Hunger Games-inspired three-fingered salute, commonly used by protesters. “This team doesn’t represent the Myanmar people,” ...

Yuya Osako's five-goal haul helped Japan to a 10-0 rout of Myanmar on Friday that sealed the Samurai Blues' place in the next phase of Asia's qualifying tournament for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Soccer: Superb Japan down Argentina 3-0 in 2nd U-24 friendly March 30, 2021 (Mainichi Japan) Ko Itakura, center, scores Japan's second goal with a header during the second half of an Under-24 football friendly against Argentina on March 29, 2021, at Kitakyushu Stadium in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's Tokyo Olympic hopefuls struck back against their Argentine counterparts with an emphatic 3-0 win on Monday, three days after losing the first of their two under-24 friendlies 1-0. Late call-up Daichi Hayashi buried the opener on the stroke of hal...