(17. round)
	Round results and attendance Hanamaki - Tokuyama 3,996 1 : 2 (0:1) Tarui - Yorii 6,166 3 : 0 (1:0) Nakatsugawa - Tochio 10,814 0 : 4 (0:3) Yashiro - Inagawa 10,029 3 : 0 (3:0) Ibaraki - Kota 10,496 3 : 0 (0:0) Hirata - Tarumizu 7,005 4 : 0 (3:0) Minakuchi - Takarazuka 3,482 0 : 0 (0:0) Miyakonojo - Kawaguchi 9,956 4 : 0 (1:0) Aizuwakamatsu - Komagane 8,846 2 : 1 (1:1) Suibara - Kashima 4,557 0 : 1 (0:1) Best league players		The top of the table IV.A4 Japan   P W D L S PTS 1. Hirata  17 15 1 1 35:5 46 2. Tarui  17 13 2 2 28:10 41 3. Kashima   17 9 4 4 23:16 31 4. Tochio  17 8 5 4 26:20 29 5. Ibaraki  17 8 5 4 18:12 29 6. Komagane  17 8 3 6 22:18 27 7. Inagawa 17 7 3 7 21:23 24 8. Kawaguchi 17 6 5 6 19:21 23 9. Nakatsugawa 17 7 1 9 14:17 22 10. Takarazuka 17 5 7 5 18:19 22 Bottom of the table IV.A4 Japan   P W D L S PTS 11. Tokuyama 17 6 3 8 19:18 21 12. Miyakonojo 17 6 2 9 18:22 20 13. Hanamaki 17 6 2 9 15:20 20 14. Suibara 17 5 5 7 19:22 20 15. Yashiro 17 5 4 8 16:22 19 16. Aizuwakamatsu 17 4 5 8 14:27 17 17. Minakuchi 17 4 4 9 17:22 16 18. Yorii 17 4 4 9 17:26 16 19. Tarumizu 17 3 7 7 12:21 16 20. Kota 17 3 4 10 11:21 13

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