This is a list of Japanese association footballers who fall into the following categories:

• • If a player has been capped on international level, the national team is used; if he has been capped by more than one country, the highest level (or the most recent) team is used. These include A players with dual citizenship.
  • If a player has not been capped on international level, his country of birth is used, except those who were born abroad from Japanese parents or moved to Japan at a young age, and those who clearly indicated to have switched his nationality to another nation.

• Players in Bold indicate players has been capped at the senior national team level.

Correct as of 23 April, 2023

K

• Hidetaka Kanazono

I

• Tatsuro Inui

M

• Hirofumi Moriyasu

O

• Takahiro Ogihara

S

• Nanako Sasaki^[F]