With the J.League's first-ever August-May season about to kick off, the JTET team are on hand with some trusty preview content to help you with your preparations.

In this 35-minute episode, Jon and James take a look at the upcoming J3 season. Time prevents us from talking about all 20 clubs, but James talks Jon through a curated list of teams to watch (for good and bad) in the new campaign.

We hope everyone enjoys the show - stay tuned for J2 preview content this week!

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After an extended intro to this episode in which Jonny and Ben discuss the news that Go Oiwa will take over from Hajime Moriyasu after the Asian Cup, we were thrilled to welcome Hiroshima correspondent Robert Turner back to the pod to chat about Sanfrecce's big swings in the transfer market, and how they might fare under Bartosch Gaul (to 34:00).

Then in Part 2 we move from west back east, previewing Okayama (34:05 to 45:20), Nagoya (45:20 to 55:50), FC Tokyo (55:50 to 1:08:45), Tokyo Verdy (1:08:45 to 1:20:00), Chiba (1:20:00 to 1:31:05) and Urawa (1:31:05 to end), leaving us with six more clubs to preview next week ahead of the big Friday night kickoff.

We kick off our previews of the new J1 season with seven clubs, and Seamus Johnston joined Jonny and Ben to chat about the first cab off the rank, 2025 runners-up Kashiwa (to 30:57).

Then, with a ten minute time limit per club experiment in place, we stay in Kanto, and run the rule over defending champions Kashima (to 41:15) and their promoted Ibaraki chums Mito (to 50:55), before we switch our attentions to Machida (to 1:00:45) and the two remaining Kanagawa clubs - Kawasaki (to 1:09:15) and Yokohama F.Marinos (to 1:18:20) - rounding things off with a trip down the Tokaido Line and into Shizuoka to preview Shimizu.

After a week away Jonny and Ben are back as we begin to look forward to kickoff of the new J1 season. We start the episode with some World Cup chat, and reaction to the news that Hajime Moriyasu will stay on as Japan manager through the Asian Cup before departing (to 12:30), then we move on to discuss J1 managerial musical chairs, and the players who have left the J.League for pastures new ahead of the new campaign (to 36:35). We finish with thoughts on new kit hits and misses, and the league doing a better job of promoting themselves on the back of World Cup buzz.

Jon Steele and James Taylor reconvened for the second part of their HYVL review. In this episode, they each chose one outstanding goalkeeper, defender, midfielder, attacker, and manager from the four regional groups (Jon covered the East; James the West.)

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In this episode of JTET, Jon Steele and James Taylor begin their review of the J2/J3 100 Year Vision League by discussing the teams that overachieved and underachieved.

Stay tuned for part 2!

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After Japan's heartbreaking defeat at the hands of Brazil, Ryo Nakagawara joined Jonny and Ben for a post mortem/therapy session as we discuss the Samurai Blue's latest World Cup knockout stage failure. Starting from the end, and Gabriel Martinelli's stoppage time winner for Brazil, we work our way back through the game, taking some time out (from 30:00) to discuss whether or not Hajime Moriyasu should continue as Japan manager through January's Asian Cup and beyond.

We also share our general reflections on Japan's tournament, and thoughts on their best performers throughout the four games they played.

In this episode of JTET, James Taylor tells Jon Steele about his trip to the cinema to see One Creature, the documentary about the Japan men's national team.

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Ep626 of J-Talk (recorded on 6/26!) features the dulcet tones and positive vibes of Alan Gibson, who joined Jonny and Ben to review Japan's draw with Sweden* (to 21:05) and look ahead to the Samurai Blue's cataclysmic meeting with Brazil this Tuesday morning Japan time.

Unfortunately, the * is above because we had significant issues with the audio file - as touched on in the intro before the episode begins - but once you reach the six minute mark its all smooth sailing from there.

In this episode of J-Talk: Extra Time, Jon Steele tells James Taylor about his experience at the All Star Cup.

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