is a Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.

Biography
Moniwa was born in Atsugi on September 8, 1981. He joined J1 League club Bellmare Hiratsuka (later Shonan Bellmare) from youth team in 1999. Although he played many matches as center back from first season, the club finished at the bottom place and was relegated to J2 League. He became a regular player from summer 2001. In 2002, he moved to J1 club FC Tokyo. He played many matches as center back with Jean until 2006. The club won the champions in 2004 J.League Cup which is first major title in the club history. However his opportunity to play decreased for injuries from 2007 and he could only 9 matches in 2009 season. In 2010, he moved to Cerezo Osaka. He played many matches as regular center back until 2012. However he lost his opportunity to play for injury from July. In 2014, Moniwa moved to Thailand and signed with Bangkok Glass. In 2015, Moniwa returned to Japan and re-joined Cerezo Osaka which was relegated to J2 from 2015 season. Cerezo was at the 4th place in J2 for 2 years in a row and was promoted to J1 end of 2016 season. In 2017, Cerezo finished at 3rd place in J1 League and won the champions in J.League Cup and Emperor's Cup. However he could hardly play in the match in 2017 and he could not play at all in the match in 2018. In 2019, Moniwa joined Japan Football League club Maruyasu Okazaki.

On October 8, 2003, Moniwa debuted for the Japan national team against Tunisia. He was also selected Japan U-23 national team for 2004 Summer Olympics. In 2006, he was selected Japan for 2006 World Cup instead Makoto Tanaka who was injured. He played 9 games and scored 1 goals for Japan until 2006.

Statistics

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|1999||Bellmare Hiratsuka||J1 League||11||0||1||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||13||0
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|2000||rowspan="2"|Shonan Bellmare||rowspan="2"|J2 League||12||0||0||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||14||0
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|2001||29||0||2||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||33||0
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|2002||rowspan="8"|FC Tokyo||rowspan="8"|J1 League||19||0||1||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||21||0
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|2003||27||0||1||0||7||0||colspan="2"|-||35||0
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|2004||22||1||1||0||6||0||colspan="2"|-||29||1
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|2005||32||0||2||0||6||0||colspan="2"|-||40||0
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|2006||24||0||0||0||4||0||colspan="2"|-||28||0
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|2007||17||0||3||0||3||0||colspan="2"|-||23||0
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|2008||22||0||2||0||7||0||colspan="2"|-||31||0
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|2009||9||0||0||0||3||0||colspan="2"|-||12||0
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|2010||rowspan="4"|Cerezo Osaka||rowspan="4"|J1 League||34||0||3||0||6||0||colspan="2"|-||43||0
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|2011||33||0||5||0||1||0||8||0||47||0
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|2012||33||0||3||0||8||0||colspan="2"|-||44||0
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|2013||16||0||2||0||5||0||colspan="2"|-||23||0

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|2014||Bangkok Glass||Premier League||32||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||32||0

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|2015||rowspan="4"|Cerezo Osaka||rowspan="2"|J2 League||14||2||0||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||14||2
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|2016||20||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||22||0
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|2017||rowspan="2"|J1 League||1||0||4||0||9||0||colspan="2"|-||14||0
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|2018||0||0||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||0||0
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|2016||rowspan="2"|Cerezo Osaka U-23||rowspan="2"|J3 League||2||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||2||0
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|2017||4||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||4||0
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|2019||rowspan="3"|Maruyasu Okazaki||rowspan="3"|Football League||15||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||15||0
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|2020||3||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||3||0
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|2021||||||||||||||||||||
399||3||32||0||71||0||8||0||2||0||512||3
32||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||32||0
431||3||32||0||71||0||8||0||2||0||544||3
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|2003||2||0
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|2004||1||0
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|2005||4||1
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|2006||2||0
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!Total||9||1
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References

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1981 births
Living people
Footballers from Kanagawa Prefecture
Japan international footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
J3 League players
Shonan Bellmare players
FC Tokyo players
Cerezo Osaka players
Cerezo Osaka U-23 players
2006 FIFA World Cup players
2005 FIFA Confederations Cup players
Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics