Japan 1970s squad
Every player who appeared for Japan in the 1970s — 77 in all, with their career international caps and goals.
Hiromi Hara racked up the most caps of anyone here — 75 in all. Kunishige Kamamoto leads the scoring with 55. The squad breaks down as 6 goalkeepers, 23 defenders, 25 midfielders and 23 forwards — enough depth to fill any formation in the game.
| Player | Pos | Caps | Goals | Legend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hiromi Hara | FW | 75 | 37 | 79 |
| Kunishige Kamamoto | FW | 61 | 55 | 78 |
| Teruki Miyamoto | MF | 58 | 19 | 78 |
| Kazushi Kimura | MF | 54 | 26 | 78 |
| Hideki Maeda | MF | 65 | 11 | 78 |
| Aritatsu Ogi | MF | 62 | 11 | 77 |
| Hiroshi Ochiai | MF | 63 | 9 | 77 |
| Nobuo Fujishima | MF | 65 | 7 | 77 |
| Mitsuhisa Taguchi | GK | 59 | — | 76 |
| Hisashi Kato | DF | 61 | 6 | 76 |
| Nobutoshi Kaneda | MF | 58 | 6 | 76 |
| Kenzo Yokoyama | GK | 49 | — | 75 |
| Hiroyuki Usui | FW | 38 | 15 | 74 |
| Daishirō Yoshimura | MF | 46 | 7 | 74 |
| Takaji Mori | MF | 56 | 2 | 74 |
| Yoshitada Yamaguchi | DF | 49 | 0 | 73 |
| Kozo Arai | DF/MF | 47 | 4 | 73 |
| Ryuichi Sugiyama | FW | 45 | 10 | 72 |
| Kuniya Daini | DF | 44 | 0 | 72 |
| Masakatsu Miyamoto | DF | 44 | 1 | 72 |
| Yoshikazu Nagai | FW | 69 | 9 | 72 |
| Eijun Kiyokumo | DF | 42 | 0 | 71 |
| Masafumi Yokoyama | FW | 31 | 10 | 71 |
| Yasuhiko Okudera | MF | 32 | 9 | 71 |
| Hiroshi Katayama | DF | 38 | 0 | 70 |
| Nobuo Kawakami | DF/MF | 41 | 0 | 68 |
| Atsuyoshi Furuta | DF | 32 | 0 | 67 |
| Kazuo Saito | DF | 32 | 0 | 67 |
| Mitsuo Watanabe | FW | 28 | 4 | 66 |
| Tatsuhiko Seta | GK | 25 | — | 65 |
| Mitsunori Fujiguchi | MF | 26 | 2 | 65 |
| Keizo Imai | DF | 29 | 0 | 65 |
| Tadahiko Ueda | FW | 13 | 7 | 63 |
| Koji Funamoto | GK | 19 | — | 62 |
| Tetsuo Sugamata | DF | 23 | 0 | 62 |
| Haruhisa Hasegawa | FW | 15 | 4 | 62 |
| Takeo Takahashi | FW | 14 | 4 | 61 |
| Yasuyuki Kuwahara | FW | 12 | 5 | 61 |
| Masaki Yokotani | DF | 20 | 0 | 60 |
| Toshio Takabayashi | FW | 12 | 2 | 58 |
| Kazumi Takada | FW | 16 | 0 | 58 |
| Akira Matsunaga | FW | 10 | 2 | 57 |
| Yoshio Kikugawa | DF | 16 | 0 | 57 |
| Shigemi Ishii | DF | 15 | 0 | 56 |
| Akira Nishino | MF | 12 | 1 | 55 |
| Shigemitsu Sudo | DF | 13 | 0 | 55 |
| Minoru Kobata | MF | 13 | 0 | 54 |
| Shusaku Hirasawa | MF | 11 | 1 | 54 |
| Kozo Tashima | FW | 7 | 1 | 54 |
| Yuji Kishioku | DF | 10 | 2 | 52 |
| Kiyoshi Tomizawa | DF | 9 | 2 | 51 |
| Kazuaki Nagasawa | MF | 9 | 0 | 51 |
| Yusuke Omi | FW | 5 | 1 | 50 |
| Kazuyoshi Nakamura | FW | 5 | 1 | 50 |
| Michio Ashikaga | MF | 7 | 0 | 49 |
| Tsutomu Sonobe | DF | 7 | 0 | 49 |
| Yoshiichi Watanabe | MF | 6 | 1 | 48 |
| Yukitaka Omi | MF | 6 | 0 | 47 |
| Ichiro Hosotani | FW | 4 | 1 | 47 |
| Eizo Yuguchi | MF | 5 | 1 | 46 |
| Noritaka Hidaka | FW | 4 | 0 | 46 |
| Hiroji Imamura | FW | 4 | 0 | 46 |
| Masafumi Hara | DF | 5 | 0 | 46 |
| Teruo Nimura | MF | 5 | 0 | 46 |
| Hisao Sekiguchi | FW | 3 | 1 | 45 |
| Norio Yoshimizu | MF | 4 | 1 | 45 |
| Seiichi Sakiya | FW | 3 | 0 | 44 |
| Katsuyuki Kawachi | MF | 3 | 0 | 43 |
| George Kobayashi | MF | 3 | 0 | 43 |
| Takeshi Ono | DF | 3 | 0 | 42 |
| Mitsuru Komaeda | MF | 2 | 2 | 42 |
| Toyohito Mochizuki | DF | 2 | 0 | 40 |
| Kazuhisa Kono | DF | 1 | 0 | 38 |
| Shigeharu Ueki | FW | 1 | 0 | 38 |
| Michio Yasuda | GK | 1 | — | 37 |
| Choei Sato | GK | 1 | — | 37 |
| Mitsuo Kato | MF | 1 | 0 | 37 |
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