The Latest Breaking News from Okayama

SUPER GT's GT300-rules cars have been slowed in relation to their FIA GT3 rivals according to the Balance of Performance for next weekend's Okayama season opener.

Pacific CarGuy Racing is now in a position to fight for wins in SUPER GT's GT300 class with its Ferrari 488 Evo GT3 after topping last weekend's Fuji pre-season test, says Kei Cozzolino.

Toyota set the pace on the opening day of official SUPER GT pre-season testing at Okayama, as reigning champion Sho Tsuboi put the #36 TOM'S GR Supra on top of the pile.

Neither of the Tsuchiya Engineering-run Toyota GR Supra GT300 cars will appear in this week's first official pre-season SUPER GT test at Okayama.

OKAYAMA -- More than 40 restaurants in the city of Okayama are working on a campaign to offer Okayama curry, a dish that uses white peaches grown in the prefecture as a special ingredient.

OKAYAMA -- After helping Japan claim bronze in the figure skating team event at the Beijing Winter Olympics, married couple Misato and Takeru Komatsubara are aiming to deliver another strong performance in the ice dance event, which starts on Saturday with the rhythm dance segment.

Hiroshima-based social welfare corporation Sun Phoenix, which operates special nursing homes for the elderly in that prefecture and in Tokyo and Okayama, effectively sold its management rights, which is not allowed by the central government, and about 3 billion yen in its bank account was siphoned away, The Yomiuri Shimbun…