Japan national football team

The **Japan national football team** is the national football team of Japan.

## Most appearances

|width=50px|#|style="width:150px;"|Player|width=50px|Caps|width=50px|Goals|style="width:100px;"|Career|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Yasuhito Endō|**152**|15|2002–2015||||||
|2|Masami Ihara|**122**|5|1988–1999||||||
|3|Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi|**116**|0|1997–2010||||||
|**Yuto Nagatomo**|3|2008–||||||||
|**Shinji Okazaki**|50|2008–||||||||
|6|Makoto Hasebe|**114**|2|2006–2018||||||
|7|Yuji Nakazawa|**110**|17|1999–2010||||||
|8|Shunsuke Nakamura|**98**|24|2000–2010||||||
|Keisuke Honda**|37|2008–||||||||
|10|**Shinji Kagawa**|**95**|31|2008–||||||
|**Maya Yoshida**|10|2010–||||||||

## Top scorers

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Kunishige Kamamoto|**80**|84|1964–1977||||||
|2|Kazuyoshi Miura|**55**|89|1990–2000||||||
|3|**Shinji Okazaki|**50**|116|2008–||||||
|4|Hiromi Hara|**37**|75|1978–1988||||||
|Keisuke Honda|98|2008–||||||||
|6|'''Shinji Kagawa|**31**|95|2008–||||||
|7|Takuya Takagi|**27**|44|1992–1997||||||
|8|Kazushi Kimura|**26**|54|1979–1986||||||
|9|Shunsuke Nakamura|**24**|98|2000–2010||||||
|10|Naohiro Takahara|**23**|57|2000–2008||||||

## Coaches

- Hitoshi Sasaki (1921)
- Masujiro Nishida (1923)
- Goro Yamada (1925)
- Shigeyoshi Suzuki (1930)
- Shigemaru Takenokoshi (1934)
- Shigeyoshi Suzuki (1936)
- Shigemaru Takenokoshi (1938-1940)
- Koichi Kudo (1942)
- Hirokazu Ninomiya (1951)
- Shigemaru Takenokoshi (1951-1956)
- Hidetoki Takahashi (1957)
- Taizo Kawamoto (1958)
- Shigemaru Takenokoshi (1958-1959)
- Hidetoki Takahashi (1960-1962)
- Ken Naganuma (1962-1969)
- Shunichiro Okano (1970-1971)
- Ken Naganuma (1972-1976)
- Hiroshi Ninomiya (1976-1978)
- Yukio Shimomura (1979-1980)
- Masashi Watanabe (1980)
- Saburo Kawabuchi (1980-1981)
- Takaji Mori (1981-1985)
- Yoshinobu Ishii (1986-1987)
- Kenzo Yokoyama (1988-1991)
- Hans Ooft (1992-1993)
- Paulo Roberto Falcão (1994)
- Shu Kamo (1994-1997)
- Takeshi Okada (1997-1998)
- Philippe Troussier (1998-2002)
- Zico (2002-2006)
- Ivica Osim (2006-2007)
- Takeshi Okada (2007-2010)
- Hiromi Hara (2010)
- Alberto Zaccheroni (2010-2014)
- Javier Aguirre (2014-2015)
- Vahid Halilhodžić (2015-2018)
- Akira Nishino (2018)
- Hajime Moriyasu (2018-)

## Related pages

- Sports in Japan
- Japan at the Olympics
- Japan women's national football team
- List of Japan international footballers

## Other websites

- Japan Football Association website ; [http://www.jfa.or.jp/ ]
- Japanese National Footfall Team Database

## Infobox (national football team)

- **name**: Japan
- **fifa trigramme**: JPN
- **nickname**:
(Samurai Blue)
- **sub-confederation**: East Asian Football Federation, EAFF (East Asia)
- **confederation**: Asian Football Confederation, AFC (Asia)
- **coach**: Hajime Moriyasu
- **captain**: Maya Yoshida
- **most caps**: Yasuhito Endō (152)
- **home stadium**: Various
- **fifa max**: 9
- **fifa max date**: March 1998
- **fifa min**: 62
- **fifa min date**: December 1992
- **elo max**: 8
- **elo max date**: August 2001, March 2002
- **elo min**: 123
- **elo min date**: September 1962
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- **first game**: Football at the 1917 Far Eastern Championship Games, 0–5
(Tokyo; 9 May 1917)
- **largest win**: Japan 15–0 Philippines, 15–0
(Tokyo; 27 September 1967)
- **largest loss**: Japan 2–15 Philippines, 2–15
(Tokyo; 10 May 1917)
- **world cup apps**: 6
- **world cup first**: 1998
- **world cup best**: Round of 16 (2002 FIFA World Cup, 2002, 2010 FIFA World Cup, 2010, 2018 FIFA World Cup, 2018)
- **regional name**: AFC Asian Cup, Asian Cup
- **regional cup apps**: 9
- **regional cup first**: 1988 AFC Asian Cup, 1988
- **regional cup best**: Champions (1992 AFC Asian Cup, 1992, 2000 AFC Asian Cup, 2000, 2004 AFC Asian Cup, 2004, 2011 AFC Asian Cup, 2011)
- **2ndregional name**: Copa América
- **2ndregional cup apps**: 2
- **2ndregional cup first**: Copa América 1999, 1999
- **2ndregional cup best**: Group Stage (Copa América 1999, 1999)
- **confederations cup apps**: 5
- **confederations cup first**: 1995 FIFA Confederations Cup, 1995
- **confederations cup best**: Runners-up (2001 FIFA Confederations Cup, 2001)