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Ikeda takes lead
Ikeda - leads the way.
The 23-year-old Japanese shot seven birdies and an eagle on the par-five 13th whilst his only bogey came on the 11th.
Ikeda leads Kenichi Kuboya by one stroke after the 37-year-old carded a seven under 65 at the Totsuka Country Club.
Tetsuya Haraguchi and Shigeki Maruyama are two shots off the pace after shooting matching 66s while defending champion Makoto Inoue is in a group of six players tied at five under.
ALL THE FIRST ROUND SCORES
(Jpn unless stated, par 72):
64 Yuta Ikeda
65 Kenichi Kuboya
66 Tetsuya Haraguchi, Shigeki Maruyama
67 Taichiro Kiyota, Senroku Isa, Takao Nogami, Azuma Yano, Makoto Inoue, Yui Ueda
68 Yoshinobu Tsukada, Michio Matsumura, Tadahiro Takayama, Tetsuji Hiratsuka, Steven Jeffress (Aus), Tomohiro Kondo, Hiroyuki Fujita, Katsumasa Miyamoto, Kyung-Tae Kim (Kor)
69 Hidemasa Hoshino, Han Lee (USA), Kazuhiro Yamashita, Wayne Perske (Aus), Hideto Tanihara, Daisuke Maruyama, Nobuhiro Masuda, Yusaku Miyazato, Shingo Katayama, Toshinori Muto, Toru Suzuki, David Smail (Nzl), Dinesh Chand (Fij), Satoru Hirota, Hyung-Tae Kim (Kor)
70 Hyung-Sung Kim (Kor), Masamichi Uehira, Hidemichi Tanaka, Kiyoshi Murota, Tateo Jet Ozaki, Taichi Teshima, Nobuhito Sato, Hiroshi Iwata, Craig Parry (Aus), Hirofumi Miyase, Yuya Morimoto, Nobuyuki Okuwa, Hiromichi Kubo
71 Shinichi Akiba, Futoshi Fujita, Shigeru Nonaka, Takashi Kanemoto, Masao Nakajima, Katsunori Kuwabara, Akio Sadakata, Tatsuhiko Takahashi, Brendan Jones (Aus), Kazuhiko Hosokawa, Toshimitsu Izawa, Kiyoshi Miyazato, Frankie Minoza (Phi), Naoya Sugiyama, Mitsuhiro Tateyama, I J Jang (Kor), Masaaki Kato
72 Hideo Koike, Masanori Kobayashi, Tatsunori Nukaga, S K Ho (Kor), Kunihiro Kamii, Taigen Tsumagari, Eddie Lee (Nzl), Kaname Yokoo, Masaya Tomida, Mamo Osanai, Shintaro Kai
73 Masashi Miyazato, Shinichi Yokota, Brandt Jobe (USA), Koumei Oda, Steven Conran (Aus), Yuji Igarashi, Ryuichi Oda, Shigemasa Higaki
74 Jong-Duck Kim, Sushi Ishigaki, Wen-Chong Liang (Chn), Chawalit Plaphol (Tha), Yudai Maeda, Toru Taniguchi, Prayad Marksaeng (Tha), Paul Sheehan (Aus), Kouki Idoki, Hiroo Kawai, Shinsuke Yanagisawa, Akio Iizuka
75 Masamichi Ito, Jun Kikuchi, Naoya Takemoto, Takuya Taniguchi, Norio Shinozaki, Takeshi Kajikawa, Shintaro Kobayashi
76 Takamasa Yamamoto, Nobuo Serizawa, Toyokazu Fujishima, Kiradech Aphibarnrat (Tha)
77 Masashi Ozaki, Ryoken Kawagishi
