List of Japan international footballers born outside Japan

This list includes all the Japanese players who played for the Japan senior national football team who are born outside Japan, while others (the minority) are naturalized or born abroad.

List by country of birth Last update on 25 October 2022

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Men List of Japanese international players

+List of Japanese international footballers born outside JapaneseNameCountry of birthCitizenship acquisitionDebut for Japan Daishiro Yoshimura 1967 2 August 1970George Kobayashi197116 July 1972Japan National Football Team DatabaseRuy Ramos199025 September 1990Wagner Lopes199727 September 1997 Alessandro Santos200120 March 2002Marcus Tulio Tanaka20038 August 2006 Daniel Schmidt 2014 30 August 2018 Musashi Suzuki 2016 22 March 2019

Existing Japanese nationality

No.NameBornPlace of birthBackground(s)Debut for Japan National careerCapsGoals1 Gōtoku Sakai1991 New York City 6 September 2012 2012–20184202 Zion Suzuki2002 Newark, New Jersey 19 July 2022 2022–210

young players with restored Japanese citizenship

The following players were born outside Japan but represent the Japanese national team in the youth level.

No.NameBornOriginNational careerCapsGoals1 Sergio Escudero1988 2008512Mizuki Hamada199020111123Cy Goddard19972013–20141124Daniel Matsuzaka19972015205Noah Kenshin Browne20012016–20181056Louis Yamaguchi19982016–2019907Ethan Scally20082025–60

Citizens with Japanese ancestry or naturalized Japanese citizens

+NameCountry of birthBornGeorge Yonashiro1950 Edwin Uehara 1969Ko Ishikawa1970Erikson Noguchipinto1981Leonardo Moreira1986Frank Romero1987 Michael Fitzgerald 1988Bruno Suzuki1990 Jelani Reshaun Sumiyoshi 1997Luís Oyama1997Leon Morimoto2001Anton Burns2003Kai Meriluoto2003Mio Backhaus2004Kaique Kenji2006Wataru Kamijo2006

Women List of Japanese international players +NameCountry of birthCitizenship acquisitionDebut for Japan Mina Tanaka 2010 18 February 2013

List of players Players in bold are currently playing for Japan futsal men, Japan futsal men U-20 Japan futsal women's, Japan national beach soccer team. The list is updated as 16 October 2022

Beach Soccer Brazil Ozu Moreira

Women's Futsal

Argentina Matías Hernán Mayedonchi

Brazil Arthur Oliveira Guilherme Kuromoto Higor Pires Rikarudo Higa Vinicius Crepaldi

Peru Kaoru Morioka

See also List of Japan international footballers

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