The Japan Football Association have announced the 23-player U-21 Japan squad for the 20th Asian Games, which will be held in Aichi Prefecture in September.
The team will face Hong Kong, China on 16 September, Kyrgyz Republic on 20 September and Thailand on 23 September in the group stage.
The 23-player squad is as follows:
■GK
12 Masataka Kobayashi (Matsumoto Yamaga FC)
1 Alexandre Kouto Horio Pisano (Nagoya Grampus)
23 Rui Araki (Gamba Osaka)
■DF
5 Rion Ichihara (AZ Alkmaar/Netherlands)
2 Rei Umeki (FC Imabari)
3 Keita Kosugi (Eintracht Frankfurt/Germany)
6 Shuto Nagano (FC Tokyo)
4 Kaito Tsuchiya (Fukushima United FC)
22 Tariqkani Hayato Okabe (Toyo University)
21 Mihiro Sato (Albirex Niigata)
15 Soichiro Mori (Fagiano Okayama)
■MF
14 Yuto Ozeki (Kawasaki Frontale)
8 Kenshin Yasuda (V-Varen Nagasaki)
7 Nelson Ishiwatari (Sint-Truidense VV/Belgium)
10 Hisatsugu Ishii (Shonan Bellmare)
17 Yotaro Nakajima (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)
18 Yudai Shimamoto (Shimizu S-Pulse)
■FW
13 Shusuke Furuya (Tokyo International University)
19 Uche Brian Seo Nwadike (AaB Fodbold/Denmark)
16 Yuya Fukunaga (Kyoto Sangyo University)
11 Yumeki Yokoyama (Cerezo Osaka)
9 Yutaka Michiwaki (Iwaki FC)
20 Sena Ishibashi (Shonan Bellmare)
