Offence, Japan
Sourced facts, dated and on the record. Squad membership, and his club when a source names one. Nothing invented; we don’t make players up.
At a glance
age
28
sourced with the squad
position
Offence
Japan
our board
#1032
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
1703′
39 appearances
transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
2.00
77th percentile of peers
On the pitch
Chances created for Japan, on the record.
goals
0
assists
1
caps
13
minutes
429′
goals and assists from our captured match events · caps and minutes from the appearance record
Sourced
- squad
- Japan · Offencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
Sourced context, nothing more. It never touches a call.
Our rating · the working
the board →1626 ±45
his quality rating: club, age and measured output. The board orders by this plus his World Cup form, less a discount for how much we can measure him.
How the number is builtopenclose
1666 full roster Elo (+40 from national-team results)
the ± is how settled the number is, more minutes, tighter band
Tier 2, lineups + results, how rich the evidence is, not just how much
at or near his peak, no projected upside from age
Where he starts (his team’s strength, we refuse to invent what we haven’t measured) plus two fixed nudges make the quality rating above; the last line is what national-team results have added since, taking it to his full roster Elo.
- starts at Japan's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
- 1608
- age curve at 28 (offences' curve)the position's measured peak, no discount either way
- +0
- transfer market value, a sourced market-consensus quality prior (the stronger reading for him here)his percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons
- +17
- quality rating · club, age + measured output
- 1626
- form: national-team results, 39 appearances1703 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
- +40
- full roster Elo · with results
- 1666
Rating trend
-327 over 40 updatesSeeded from his team’s rating, then moved by the matches he actually played. A shadow signal, it never touches a live call.
Where the +17 skill term comes from
Not a reputation, a measurement. We score every shot in the data ourselves and rank him among minutes-qualified peers; a fixed arithmetic turns that rank into points.
- measured
- 2.00 transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
- his rank
- 77th percentile of qualified peers
- scored from
- the CC0 Transfermarkt community mirror; a market-consensus quality prior, taken at a capped weight where it reads a player higher than our (fixed, partial) shot/event data can
- the arithmetic
- 46 pts/σ × z(77.4th) = 46 × 0.75 × 0.5 (position weight) = +17
Where the +40 was earned
The earned line, opened up by competition. World Cup finals count 1.5×, qualifiers and cups 1×, friendlies and club football half, so a tournament night moves him most.
- World Cup finals3 apps · 41′
- 0
- internationals, qualifiers & cups8 apps · 319′
- +5
- international friendlies2 apps · 69′
- +3
- club football26 apps · 1274′
- +32
His latest nights
- 2026-06-29World Cup finals · 2′ · team result only▼ −0
- 2026-06-25World Cup finals · 24′▼ −1
- 2026-06-14World Cup finals · 15′ · team result only▲ +1
- 2026-05-31international friendlies · 45′ · team result only▲ +1
- 2026-05-17club football · 19′ · team result only▲ +1
Each night’s move blends his team’s result with his own match stats, saves for keepers, tackles and duels for defenders, creation for midfielders, finishing up front. “Team result only” marks games where the feed carried no player stats.
A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-29. The skill term comes from our own xG models over the open archive; the rest is earned, recorded per appearance, auditable, never back-filled. It never moves a live call.
At this World Cup
What the tournament has done to his rating since the first whistle on 11 Jun, and the matches behind it. Each night’s move blends his team’s result with his own performance, shrunk for sample size, so a strong game nudges the number rather than spiking it.
· 0
3 appearances · 41′ · 1 graded by his own stats
The matches behind it
- 06-29lost by 1 · 2′ · team result only· 0
- 06-25drew · 24′ · his stats graded▼ −1
- 06-14drew · 15′ · team result only▲ +1
The same movement shown beside his name on the board, opened up. “Team result only” marks nights the feed carried no player stats. A forward-only shadow signal; it never touches a live call.
The notebook
The lines a beat writer keeps, except every one of ours is read off the ledger above, auditable to the night. Nothing invented.
standing
#1032 of 1424 rated players on our board.
best night
His best night in our ledger: +8 in one sitting, club football, 2025-11-23.
vs his seed
The folded nights have added +40 to the number he seeded with, he has outplayed his own prior.
What he’d cost · our estimate
We don’t price him yet. Our fee model leans on the level he plays at, and no trusted source has given us his club’s strength. We’d rather show nothing than a number we don’t trust.
The fee record · sourced
- 2024-06-17Yokohama FC → NEC Nijmegenundisclosed
- 2023-07-03Yokohama FC → NEC Nijmegenloan
- 2022-01-09Jubilo Iwata → Yokohama FCfree
- 2020-02-01Mito Hollyhock → Jubilo Iwataundisclosed
Reported moves, dated and attributed (api-football.com), news facts, not a valuation site’s estimates. It never touches a call.
In our coverage · Japan’s record
- at Brazil2–1Called it
- v Sweden1–1Missed it
- at Tunisia0–4Called it
- at Netherlands2–2Missed it
The newsroom’s calls on Japan. Team-level, never dressed up as a player stat.
Squad · sourced
- Ao Tanaka
- Ayase Ueda
- Ayumu Seko
- Daichi Kamada
- Daizen Maeda
- Hiroki Ito
- Junnosuke Suzuki
- Junya Ito
- Kaishu Sano
- Keisuke Goto
- Keisuke Ōsako
- Keito Nakamura
- Kento Shiogai
- Ko Itakura
- Ritsu Doan
- Shogo Taniguchi
- Takefusa Kubo
- Takehiro Tomiyasu
- Tomoki Hayakawa
- Tsuyoshi Watanabe
- Wataru Endō
- Yuito Suzuki
- Yukinari Sugawara
- Yūto Nagatomo
- Zion Suzuki