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The Japan national football team is the team representing Japan in the sport of Japanese football, which is governed by the Japan Football Association (JFA). This is the team that is being evaluated as the strongest and most successful team in Asia with 7 times participating in the World Cup - World Football Championship. In which, Japan has reached the second round 3 times in 2002, 2010 and 2018. At the 2022 World Cup, the Japanese team is currently one of 16 teams in the 1/8 round.

Japan won the runner-up position at the Confederations Cup in 2001 and is one of three Asian football teams along with Saudi Arabia and Australia that have reached the final round of a major tournament organized by FIFI. organization for national teams. In the region, the Asian team won the East Asian Cup four times in 1992, 1995, 1998, and 2013.

The Japanese national football team's nickname is Samurai Blue used by the JFA, while the domestic media often call it after the incumbent coach's surname + Japan, currently Moriyasu Japan. In Asia, Japan's main rival is South Korea and, most recently, Australia. The Japanese team is the first team outside the Americas to be invited to the South American Cup, they were guests of this tournament in 1999, 2011, 2015, and 2019. Although they were only participated in two terms in 1999 and 2019.

Adidas is the unit that has sponsored many tournaments of the Japanese team since 1999. The traditional shirt color of this team is the shirt that blue represents the blue sky, the secondary shirt color is white. From 2020, the Japanese jersey has been decorated with a white eyebrow symbolizing the clouds. Before that, this team used to wear red, and in 1930 they chose blue. The logo of the Japan national football team resembles the logo design of the Japan Football Association, featuring the three-legged crow Yatagarasu (in Japanese tradition the three-legged fruit is a symbol of the sun) with one leg holds the red ball representing the sun on the national flag of this country.

To date, the Japanese team has participated in the World Cup 7 times, the first time in 1998, their best result was the round of 16 in 2002, 2010 and 2018. Japan has participated in the World Cup 10 times. In the Asian Cup, for the first time in 1988, their best result to date was the championship in 1992, 2000, 2004 and 2011. At the Confederations Cup, Japan has entered 5 times. competed, the first was in 1995 and the best result was runner-up in 2001.