Japan: Players with the Most Games Played in the World Cup

All-Time list of players with more matches played for the National Team of Japan in the Soccer World Cups with detail of games played in each competition.

A total of 109 players represented the National Team of Japan in the Soccer World Cups. Of them, 93 played at least one game. Here you have a list with the players with most games played.

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Player
Games Played
World Cups
Game Detail by World Cup
1. Japan Yuto Nagatomo 15 4 4 in 2010, 3 in 2014, 4 in 2018, 4 in 2022
2. Japan Makoto Hasebe 11 3 4 in 2010, 3 in 2014, 4 in 2018
Japan Eiji Kawashima 11 4 4 in 2010, 3 in 2014, 4 in 2018, 0 in 2022
Japan Maya Yoshida 11 3 3 in 2014, 4 in 2018, 4 in 2022
5. Japan Keisuke Honda 10 3 4 in 2010, 3 in 2014, 3 in 2018
Japan Hidetoshi Nakata 10 3 3 in 1998, 4 in 2002, 3 in 2006
Japan Shinji Okazaki 10 3 4 in 2010, 3 in 2014, 3 in 2018
8. Japan Junichi Inamoto 8 3 4 in 2002, 2 in 2006, 2 in 2010
9. Japan Yuji Nakazawa 7 2 3 in 2006, 4 in 2010
Japan Yoshito Okubo 7 2 4 in 2010, 3 in 2014
11. Japan Yasuhito Endo 6 3 0 in 2006, 4 in 2010, 2 in 2014
Japan Shinji Kagawa 6 2 3 in 2014, 3 in 2018
Japan Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi 6 4 3 in 1998, 0 in 2002, 3 in 2006, 0 in 2010
Japan Tsuneyasu Miyamoto 6 2 4 in 2002, 2 in 2006
Japan Shinji Ono 6 3 1 in 1998, 4 in 2002, 1 in 2006
Japan Yuya Osako 6 2 2 in 2014, 4 in 2018
Japan Hiroki Sakai 6 3 0 in 2014, 4 in 2018, 2 in 2022
Japan Hotaru Yamaguchi 6 2 3 in 2014, 3 in 2018
19. Japan Yuichi Komano 5 2 1 in 2006, 4 in 2010
Japan Koji Nakata 5 2 4 in 2002, 1 in 2006
Japan Alessandro Santos 5 2 2 in 2002, 3 in 2006
Japan Atsushi Yanagisawa 5 2 3 in 2002, 2 in 2006
23. Japan Yuki Abe 4 1 4 in 2010
Japan Takuma Asano 4 1 4 in 2022
Japan Ritsu Doan 4 1 4 in 2022
Japan Wataru Endo 4 2 0 in 2018, 4 in 2022
Japan Shuichi Gonda 4 2 0 in 2014, 4 in 2022
Japan Takashi Inui 4 1 4 in 2018
Japan Junya Ito 4 1 4 in 2022
Japan Daichi Kamada 4 1 4 in 2022
Japan Naoki Matsuda 4 1 4 in 2002
Japan Daisuke Matsui 4 1 4 in 2010
Japan Kaoru Mitoma 4 1 4 in 2022
Japan Hiroaki Morishima 4 2 1 in 1998, 3 in 2002
Japan Shunsuke Nakamura 4 2 3 in 2006, 1 in 2010
Japan Masashi Nakayama 4 2 3 in 1998, 1 in 2002
Japan Seigo Narazaki 4 4 0 in 1998, 4 in 2002, 0 in 2006, 0 in 2010
Japan Gaku Shibasaki 4 2 4 in 2018, 0 in 2022
Japan Takayuki Suzuki 4 1 4 in 2002
Japan Keiji Tamada 4 2 2 in 2006, 2 in 2010
Japan Marcus Tulio Tanaka 4 1 4 in 2010
Japan Kazuyuki Toda 4 1 4 in 2002
43. Japan Yutaka Akita 3 2 3 in 1998, 0 in 2002
Japan Takashi Fukunishi 3 2 1 in 2002, 2 in 2006
Japan Genki Haraguchi 3 1 3 in 2018
Japan Daisuke Ichikawa 3 1 3 in 2002
Japan Masami Ihara 3 1 3 in 1998
Japan Ko Itakura 3 1 3 in 2022
Japan Shoji Jo 3 1 3 in 1998
Japan Yasuyuki Konno 3 2 1 in 2010, 2 in 2014
Japan Wagner Lopes 3 1 3 in 1998
Japan Daizen Maeda 3 1 3 in 2022
Japan Takumi Minamino 3 1 3 in 2022
Japan Hidemasa Morita 3 1 3 in 2022
Japan Tomokazu Myojin 3 1 3 in 2002
Japan Hiroshi Nanami 3 1 3 in 1998
Japan Akira Narahashi 3 1 3 in 1998
Japan Mitsuo Ogasawara 3 2 1 in 2002, 2 in 2006
Japan Masashi Oguro 3 1 3 in 2006
Japan Gen Shoji 3 1 3 in 2018
Japan Naoki Soma 3 1 3 in 1998
Japan Naohiro Takahara 3 1 3 in 2006
Japan Ao Tanaka 3 1 3 in 2022
Japan Takehiro Tomiyasu 3 1 3 in 2022
Japan Atsuto Uchida 3 2 0 in 2010, 3 in 2014
Japan Motohiro Yamaguchi 3 1 3 in 1998