{"id":848799,"date":"2026-08-09T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848799\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T06:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T06:00:09","slug":"japanese-university-sensation-ryunosuke-ito-earns-praise-from-australias-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848799\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese university sensation Ryunosuke Ito earns praise from Australia\u2019s coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Osaka \u2013 While new Australia coach Les Kiss talked up his team\u2019s resolve after\u00a0seeing off a dogged Japan on Saturday, he was also happy to praise the opposition\u2019s flyhalf, Ryunosuke Ito, a university student who dealt the Wallabies a few painful lessons.<\/p>\n<p>Ito, 21, who \u200bhad not played a professional game before he was thrust straight from college onto the \u200cnational team \u200clast month, stepped through Australia\u2019s backline to open the scoring in the \u200b11th minute and secure his first test try.<\/p>\n<p>His dazzling runs, neat chip kicks and snappy passing kept the Wallabies guessing right to the end as they eked out a 35-32 win in \u2060a helter-skelter, nine-try contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Osaka \u2013 While new Australia coach Les Kiss talked up his team\u2019s resolve after\u00a0seeing off a dogged Japan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,189728,92253,44,419545],"class_list":["post-848799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brave-blossoms","tag-les-kiss","tag-news","tag-ryunosuke-ito"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848799","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=848799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}