Keisuke Honda
Japan have appeared in the finals of the FIFA World Cup on six occasions, the first being in 1998 where they lost all three group games and finished in 31st position. Masashi Nakayama scored Japan's first ever goal in a World Cup Finals against Jamaica on 26 June 1998 in a 21 defeat. Keisuke Honda becomes the first Japanese player to score in three world cups: 2010, 2014, 2018.