{"id":554620,"date":"2026-03-21T09:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T09:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/554620\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T09:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T09:04:09","slug":"australia-v-japan-scores-results-time-program-entertainment-tips-odds-weather-how-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/554620\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia v Japan scores, results, time, program, entertainment, tips, odds, weather, how to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long before it became the official nickname of their women\u2019s national team in 2004, Nadeshiko was a Japanese ideal.<\/p>\n<p>The word has two meanings: firstly, as the name of a sweet-smelling pink and white carnation, and then, symbolically, as a traditional archetype of Japanese womanhood, defined by not only grace and beauty but an inner strength and steely determination \u2013 a combination of attributes displayed on the field each time they play.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Nadeshiko Vision\u2019 is also the title of the Japanese Football Association\u2019s plan for global domination in women\u2019s football, which is \u2013 scarily \u2013 coming true.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Japan coach Nils Nielsen and captain Yui Hasegawa.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6f8ec92020097b5db63d94dd6d9b53ce7525411c.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Japan coach Nils Nielsen and captain Yui Hasegawa.Edwina Pickles<\/p>\n<p>Ranked No.8 in the world, they have scored 28 goals at the AFC Women\u2019s Asian Cup thus far and conceded only one, playing by far the most attractive, and effective, brand of football of any team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long before it became the official nickname of their women\u2019s national team in 2004, Nadeshiko was a Japanese&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-554620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}