The Japan national football team, nicknamed the Samurai Blue (サムライ・ブルー), represents Japan in men's international football and it is controlled by the Japan Football Association (JFA), the governing body for football in Japan.
The Japan national futsal team represents Japan in international futsal competitions and is controlled by the Japan Football Association. It is one of the strongest teams in Asia, the champions in the 2006, 2012 and 2014 Asian Futsal Championships. Japan has also played in five FIFA Futsal World Cups.
Shūichi Gonda is a Japanese professional footballer who plays in Japan for Shimizu S-Pulse on loan from the Portuguese club Portimonense as a goalkeeper. He represented Japan at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
This article lists the team squads of the 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
Naoki Yamada is a Japanese footballer who plays for Shonan Bellmare.
Takuji Yonemoto is a Japanese football player currently playing for Shonan Bellmare on loan from Nagoya Grampus.
Kensuke Nagai is a Japanese football player who plays as a striker for J1 League club FC Tokyo.
Mana Iwabuchi is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a forward or attacking midfielder for FA Women's Super League club Arsenal and the Japan national team. She previously played for Aston Villa, Bayern Munich, and Hoffenheim.
Futoshi Ikeda is a Japanese football manager and former player who played as a defender. He is currently the head coach of the Japan women's national football team.
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Mizuho Sakaguchi is a Japanese football player. She plays for Tokyo Verdy Beleza. She also plays for the Japan national team.
The Japan women's national under-17 football team is a national association football youth team of Japan and is controlled by the Japan Football Association.
This article lists the squads for the 2015 Algarve Cup, the 22nd edition of the Algarve Cup. The cup consisted of a series of friendly games, and was held in the Algarve region of Portugal from 4 to 11 March 2015. The twelve national teams involved in the tournament registered a squad of 23 players.
Takehiro Tomiyasu is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a right-back or centre-back for Premier League club Arsenal and the Japan national team.
The following is the squad list for the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup. Each squad consisted of 21 players in total, three of whom had to be goalkeepers.
Japan was the host nation of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020 but postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the nation's official debut in 1912, Japanese athletes have appeared at every Summer Olympic Games in the modern era, except for the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, to which they were not invited due to the nation's role in World War II, and the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, as part of the United States-led boycott. The opening ceremony flag-bearers for Japan are basketball player Rui Hachimura and wrestler Yui Susaki. Karateka Ryo Kiyuna is the flag-bearer for the closing ceremony.
Japan is currently taking part in the 2018 Asian Games as competing nation, in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia, from 18 August to 2 September 2018.
The following is a list of all the squads of the national teams that participated in the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup. Each team had to name a preliminary squad of between 22 and 50 players. From the preliminary squad, the team had to name a final squad of 21 players by the FIFA deadline. Players in the final squad could be replaced by a player from the preliminary squad due to serious injury or illness up to 24 hours prior to kickoff of the team's first match. Players born on or after 1 January 1999 and on or before 31 December 2003 were eligible to compete in the tournament.
Ayase Ueda is a Japanese footballer who plays as a forward for Kashima Antlers.
The 2021 Emperor's Cup was the 101st annual Japanese national football cup tournament, which began on 22 May 2021 and ended on 19 December that year.
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