Japan

	Overview Japan became the first nation besides host Germany to book their place at Germany 2006 when they defeated Korea DPR on June 8, 2005. This will be their third consecutive FIFA World Cup appearance


Japan Football Association 2 World Cup appearances 1998, 2002 Second round in 2002 Most caps Masami Ihara (123) Top scorer Kunishige Kamamoto (73) Trivia 1. The nickname of Japan's national team is Blues.

Japan Fixtures
All kick-offs are in local German time (GMT +1)

Monday, 12th June 15.00
Australia vs Japan (Group F)
at Kaiserslautern

Sunday, 18th June 15.00
Japan vs Croatia (Group F)
at Nuremberg

Thursday, 22nd June 21.00
Japan vs Brazil (Group F)
at Dortmund