Asian champion Japan beat a J. League select team 2-1 in a charity match on Tuesday night, the nation's first major prime time sporting event since the earthquake and tsunami of March 11.
Yasuhito Endo and Shinji Okazaki netted in the opening half for Alberto Zaccheroni's side, and 44-year-old Kazu Miura pulled one back for the Dragan Stojkovic-coached J. League team after halftime in an emotional affair dedicated to the victims of the devastation in eastern Japan.
"The pitch was brimming with players with great technical quality and they put on a great game," said Zaccheroni.