Head coach Hajime Moriyasu announced on Tuesday his 26-man squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which will be hosted by Qatar from November 20 to December 18, putting his faith in a largely established core of players but omitting several of Japan’s top standouts in European competitions as well as longtime Samurai Blue veterans.
The announcement of Japan’s squad for the quadrennial tournament has occasionally produced surprise selections and shock omissions, and Tuesday’s was no different with midfielder Genki Haraguchi and forward Yuya Osako, both of whom appeared at the previous World Cup in Russia, left off the list.
Samurai Blue counting on ambition over experience as Moriyasu Hajime's side hope to get out of Group E including Germany, Costa Rica, and Spain.

Japan's squad is as follows:

Kawashima
Gonda
Schmidt
Nagatomo
Yoshida
Sakai
Taniguchi
Shibasaki
Endo
Yamani
Minamino
Moreta
Kamada
Itakura
Nakayama
Soma
Mitoma
Maeda
Shibasaki
Ito
Doan
Ueda
Tanaka
Tomiasu
Ito
kubo
Asano