Japan gave national team manager Takeshi Okada a welcome tonic ahead of next week's World Cup-qualifying match against Australia with a resounding 5-1 win over Finland on Wednesday night.
Shinji Okazaki showed the way with a pair of clinical first-half strikes before Shinji Kagawa weighed in with a fine finish of his own to give Japan a 3-0 lead at the interval.
Roni Porokara pulled one back for the Finns in the 50th minute, but a header from Yuji Nakazawa and a late drive from Michihiro Yasuda wrapped up the scoring at Tokyo's National Stadium for a Japan team playing without its Europe-based personnel.