Tallest: 1 · Year
By quarter-hour; stoppage time counts as the 45th or 90th minute.
Tallest: 1 · Minute
Japan's matches with known line-ups from their first recorded cap to their last.
| With them | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 28.6% |
| Without them | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 17 | 45.5% |
| Aizar Akmatov | Kyrgyzstan | 1 |
| Akhlidin Israilov | Kyrgyzstan | 1 |
| Alex Christian | Haiti | 1 |
| Alex Sandro | Brazil | 1 |
| Alisson Becker | Brazil | 1 |
| Andrew Durante | New Zealand | 1 |
| Andrew Jean-Baptiste | Haiti | 1 |
| Andriy Pyatov | Ukraine | 1 |
| Aristóteles Romero | Venezuela | 1 |
| Artem Besedin | Ukraine | 1 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1 |
Finals and qualifying campaigns alike.
| 10 Oct 2017 | v Haiti | 3–3 | 17′ | — | Extended lead | 2–0 | Kirin Challenge Cup 2017 |
In a recorded line-up, on the scoresheet or booked. “—” where the line-up isn't known.
| 20 Nov 2018 | v Kyrgyzstan | 4–0 | started, off 59′ | 59 | — | — | Kirin Challenge Cup 2018 |
| 16 Nov 2018 | v Venezuela | 1–1 | came on 78′ | 12 | — | — | Kirin Challenge Cup 2018 |
| 27 Mar 2018 | v Ukraine | 1–2 | started, off 56′ | 56 | — | — | Friendly |
| 14 Nov 2017 | v Belgium | 0–1 | came on 73′ | 17 | — | — | Friendly |
| 10 Nov 2017 | v Brazil | 1–3 | came on 80′ | 10 | — | — | Friendly |
| 10 Oct 2017 | v Haiti | 3–3 | started, off 64′ | 64 | 1 | — | Kirin Challenge Cup 2017 |
| 6 Oct 2017 | v New Zealand | 2–1 | came on 61′ | 29 | — | — | Kirin Challenge Cup 2017 |
Caps, goals and cards count what the sources record: line-ups from about 2003 (World Cups from 1970, friendlies from about 2016), and few scorers in older friendlies — so career totals run low.