The Northern Mariana Islands national football team represents the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in international men's football.
 The team is controlled by the governing body for football in the Northern Mariana Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands Football Association, which is a member of the East Asian Football Federation (EAFF) and an associate member of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
 The federation is not a member of the world governing body FIFA and so whilst the national team is eligible to enter AFC and EAFF-run competitions, they are currently ineligible for global competitions such as the FIFA World Cup and FIFA Confederations Cup.
 As such, they do not have an official FIFA ranking.
 However, the team have been consistently ranked as one of the worst teams in the world on the Elo ratings and are in fact, at July 2016 rated as the worst men's senior international team in the world in a ratings system that also includes a number of other non-FIFA teams.
 Following the completion of the preliminary qualifying round for the 2017 EAFF East Asian Cup the team have won only one official competitive match against international opposition and have a goal difference of −78 in official matches.
 The team have never qualified for the finals of a major tournament and beyond friendlies and qualifying matches, their only official competition has been in an exhibition tournament in the regional Micronesian Games in 1998, which they won, to date their only tournament success.
The Australian Rugby Football League, more commonly known as the Australian Rugby League (ARL), was the governing body for the sport of rugby league football in Australia.
 The ARL, as a corporate entity, was handed over to the new Australian Rugby League Commission.
 at 9:30am on 9 February 2012.
 Since its inception the ARL administered the Australian national team and represented Australia in international rugby league matters.
 During the mid-1990s' Super League war the ARL administered the country's first-grade premiership until the National Rugby League was formed.
 The legal hand-over from ARL to ARL Commission ensured that the game has effectively had the same governing body across Australia, since 1924.
Football Association of Odisha (FAO) is the state governing body of football in Odisha, India.
 The Odisha Men's Football Team and Odisha Women's Football Team is administrated by the Football Association of Odisha.
 It is affiliated with the All India Football Federation, the national governing body of the Indian national football team.
National Bandy Association was the first English governing body for the team winter sport of bandy, and actually the first bandy governing body anywhere in the world.
 The association was founded in 1891.
 The first general rules for bandy were written down by Englishman Charles Goodman Tebbutt in 1882.
 Bandy was a popular sport in England until the First World War, and the England national bandy team won the 1913 European Bandy Championships.
The France national football team (French: "Equipe de France" ) represents the nation of France in international association football.
 It is fielded by the French Football Federation (French: "Fédération Française de Football" ), the governing body of football in France, and competes as a member of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), which encompasses the countries of Europe.
 The team played its first official international match on 1 May 1904 against Belgium.
 Since its first competitive match, more than 800 players have made at least one international appearance for the team, only players with 20 or more offici Jean Ducret became the first French international to reach 20 caps, doing so on 29 March in a 2–0 defeat to Italy.
 He was also one of the first permanent captains of the national team.
 Ducret was later surpassed by defender Raymond Dubly and goalkeeper Pierre Chayriguès, who both played with the national team until 1925.
 Dubly finished his international career with 31 caps.
 Three years after retiring from the national team, Dubly's amount was exceeded by Jules Dewaquez, who went on to finish his career with 41 appearances.
 Dewaquez's record stood for nearly a decade before his amount was equaled by Edmond Delfour in 1938 and later surmounted by Étienne Mattler a year later.
 Similar to Dubly, Mattler's amount was exceeded, however after two decades, by former Stade de Reims defenders Roger Marche and Robert Jonquet.
 It was the former player who took over the record outperforming Jonquet by just five caps.
 Marche's 63 appearances remained the France national team record for appearance-making for 24 years, the longest time between the record being broken and set again.
 Marche was surpassed by Marius Trésor, who set the record after appearing in an October 1983 friendly match against Spain.
The Japan national football team (サッカー日本代表 , Sakkā Nippon Daihyō ) represents Japan in association football and is operated by the Japan Football Association (JFA), the governing body for association football in Japan.
 The current head coach is Vahid Halilhodžić.
Nobuyuki Kojima (小島 伸幸 , Kojima Nobuyuki , born January 17, 1966) is a former Japanese football player.
 He played for Japan national team.
Denmark national beach soccer team represents Denmark in international beach soccer competitions, but however is not controlled by the Danish Football Association (DFA), the governing body for football in Denmark.
 The DFA have decided to wait before being affiliated with an official national beach soccer team.
 However the team is recognised by the sport's governing body, Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW) and competes as Denmark's representative team in BSWW and FIFA sanctioned tournaments.
The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is the governing body for rugby union in England.
 It was founded in 1871, and was the sport's international governing body prior to the formation of what is now known as World Rugby (WR) in 1886.
 It promotes and runs the sport, organises international matches for the England national team, and educates and trains players and officials.
The International Baseball Federation (IBAF; Spanish: "Federación Internacional de Béisbol", French: "Fédération international de baseball") is the former worldwide governing body recognized by the International Olympic Committee as overseeing, deciding and executing the policy of the sport of baseball.
 The IBAF has since become the international baseball "Division" of the World Baseball Softball Confederation, the officially recognized world governing body for baseball (and softball).
 One of its principal responsibilities under the WBSC is to organize, standardize and sanction international competitions among baseball's 124 national governing bodies through its various tournaments to determine a world champion and calculate world rankings for both men's and women's baseball.
 Prior to the establishment of the WBSC, which has since superseded its authority, the IBAF had been the lone entity that can assign the title of "world champion" to any baseball team delegated to represent a nation.
 Its offices are housed within the WBSC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland—the Olympic Capital.

Question: What was the governing body of the national team that Nobuyuki Kojima played for?
Answer: Japan Football Association