Claim: Yasutaka Yoshida spent three years in a top tier football league for Japan.
Evidence: 1992 1993 1994 J1 League The J1 League (Japanese: J1リーグ, Hepburn: Jē-wan Rīgu) or simply J1 is the top division of the Japan Professional Football League (日本プロサッカーリーグ, Nihon Puro Sakkā Rīgu) and the top professional Soccer J.League in Japan.