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Spoilers for the main:

Main starting soon. So far the biggest thing that has happened is that Lady C is now in Queen's Quest.

Stardom live now. The whole show will be streaming free on youtube. Card

Aoki "proposed" to Hotta at the last DDT show. Not sure what is going on exactly. http://battle-news.com/?p=78449 Here is Aoki and Super Sasadango Machine shopping for the belt that he gives her.

It was when he wrestled Vader in 2000. https://ameblo.jp/hajackass/entry-12603724908.html

If Utami was not a reality "star" does she even get a push? It's not as prominent but the Big Daddy Third Daughter thing is still mentioned in mainstream articles about her.

https://www.njpw.co.jp/329914

Kyoko Hamaguchi, Animal Hamaguchi's daughter who is an Olympic wrestling bronze medalist. It's for a Tokyo Sports article.

At the very least NJPW has kept their policies in place about no cheering at events. At least that's the info they are including on their site if you want to buy tickets for upcoming shows. They may restart autograph sessions in some venues.

No word yet on when it might re-air. The title is 燃える闘魂 ラストスタンド https://www.nhk.jp/p/ts/K6W16GLK53/episode/te/8LWJ2G9G66/

Looking at the streaming situation in Japan, it's hard to see where the WWE can go. They were already on DAZN in Japan and then went to J Sports. But the WWE did sign a contract with DAZN for streaming in Europe in 2020 so who knows? Also, I don't know why AEW fans seem to be crowing about this news. It's not like you can catch AEW here unless you buy it on FITE TV on a per episode basis or whatever NJPW puts on World (AEW matches that feature New Japan wrestlers).

She did a photo shoot for some new merch. もふもふ (mofumofu) is fluffy and アクキー (Akuki-) is a Japanese portmanteau of acrylic key-holder.

AJPW's Kento Miyahara will be the latest pro wrestler to take on the SASUKE course. https://www.tbs.co.jp/sasuke_rising/players/ Past participants from the world of pro wrestling have been Hiroshi Tanahashi, Minoru Suzuki, Tiger Mask IV, the Great SASUKE, Sho and Yoh, Tsukasa Fujimoto and Kota Ibushi (and others, I just can't think of them now).

Cost is 3960 yen on Abema. 3600 if you are already a premium member. https://abema-ppv-onlinelive.abema.tv/posts/23592302

目ん玉飛び出るようなストロングスタイル Eye-popping Strong Style although the way it's written is more like the Strong Style that will make your eyeballs fly out.

I keep forgetting about this but Kyushu Pro has been putting out a live youtube show on the first Monday of every month since April called Monday Night Vai. The next show is on October 4th 7:00 JST and is the first round in their "Glocal Tag Tournament" Their main youtube channel is here. You can see most of the Monday Night Vai's here. The Glocal Tag Tournament is sort of following what has been happening throughout the Monday Night Vais: Wrestlers from other promotions have been coming in taking on the Kyushu Pro wrestlers. Dragon Gate, 2AW, Michinoku Pro, Osaka Pro and Ryukyu Dragon Pro all have reps in the tournament which will be the focus of the next three Monday Night Vais.

Not the radio appearance but it looks like this blog post covers some of the same points. https://ameblo.jp/junglekyona/entry-12701354503.html

O-Khan vs ZSJ was a great match. Really different stuff from O-Khan and a match that could probably only been done at Korakuen.

Japan is sort of lifting the (latest) state of emergency that started during July. It will still be up to the prefectures to decide what they want to do but the major event cap will be probably be raised to 10,000 or 50 percent capacity. https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210928/p2g/00m/0na/037000c In terms of vaccination, they are currently at 69 percent of adults with one shot and 58 percent fully vaccinated (Yamaguchi is at 74 and 67 respectively).

Founder of LLPW Rumi Kazama has passed away at 55. https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/99a34aa5d622407f212ed8de4ae614d0c2744bc7

Note: They just extended the state of emergency for several areas until the end of September. The government is hoping to vaccinate everyone who is willing by October or November. Judging by this more than a few people are willing. Like in the US, vaccination rates and the process by which people can receive them varies. My smallish prefecture of Yamaguchi tops the country at close to 60 percent done and almost 70 percent with at least one shot. And even then vaccine coupons, which are used to keep track of who got what and when, were sent out at different times by different municipalities in the prefecture. Also at the end of the month the controlling party of the Diet, the Liberal Democratic Party - which is definitely not liberal and kind of democratic in the US sense - will be holding elections for it's new leader who will then become the next Prime Minister. The current Prime Minister, Yoshihide Suga, has declined to run in the party election paving the way for one of these people probably.

In the case of AJPW, they were off for a bit, notably right when cases started rising again towards the end of July.

1. Yukiko Ueno as the winning pitcher for Japan in the gold medal softball game, 12 years after she did the same in Beijing. 2. A Rui leads Japan to a basketball medal. Not Rui Hachimura but Rui Machida. Machida tied the record for assists in a game but her coach didn't realize it and didn't put her back in the game to break the record - and then she broke the record the next game anyway. Yeah, they got stomped by Team USA in the final but it was a great run. 3. Japan gets it's first table tennis gold in the first ever mixed doubles event and Chinese twitter sort of loses it's mind (of course they went to sweep gold in all the other events). This was also when Mima Ito probably solidified herself as Japan's best ever table tennis player. She'll probably be there in Paris but these Olympics might have been where the path paved by Ai Fukuhara and Kasumi Ishikawa these past fifteen years reached it's apex. 4. The unfortunate end of Kohei Uchimura's Olympic career. Not that Japan's men's gymnastics is in any trouble but it won't be the same for a while. 5. SO many stupid scandals running up to the Olympics, most of which could have been avoided. The fact that they even had an opening ceremony after all that was a minor miracle. 6. Oh, all the new sports were all generally entertaining. And Carissa Moore winning the first ever women's surfing gold was significant on several levels.

Umm..about one of those games...

To be fair, I and those competitors are deep SASUKE nerds so not everyone will enjoy it quite as much. But during lead, any partisan country cheering kind of went out the window for me because it felt more like everyone trying to conquer the wall rather than beat each other.