Tiago Bontempo – one of JSoccer Magazine’s experts on Japanese players overseas – gives us this list of Japanese players in Europe this season … (do you see any missing? Please advise)… Tiago gave us his Top Ten Japanese in Europe in JSoccer Magazine Issue 12 – excellent to read.

I believe that more players will go to Switzerland in the near future, and there will be a return to Holland for some? What do you think?

Akira Kaji going to Chivas in USA may show the way for more older (nearing retirement) or younger (without contract offers?) players to go to “the States”. A few more heading to Australia soon, too?

GERMANY – Bundesliga
Atsuto Uchida – Schalke 04
Gotoku Sakai – Stuttgart
Genki Haraguchi – Hertha Berlin
Hajime Hosogai – Hertha Berlin
Hiroki Sakai – Hannover 96
Hiroshi Kiyotake – Hannover 96
Makoto Hasebe – Eintracht Frankfurt
Takashi Inui – Eintracht Frankfurt
Shinji Kagawa – Borussia Dortmund
Shinji Okazaki – Mainz
Yuya Osako – Cologne
Kazuki Nagasawa – Cologne

GERMANY – Bundesliga 2
Hiroki Yamada – Karlsruher
Yusuke Tasaka – Bochum

GERMANY – 3rd Division
Mitsuru Maruoka – Borussia Dortmund B

ENGLAND
Ryo Miyaichi – Arsenal
Maya Yoshida – Southampton

ITALY
Keisuke Honda – AC Milan
Yuto Nagatomo – Inter Milan

SPAIN – Primera Liga
Mike Havenaar – Córdoba

SPAIN – Division 2
Sotan Tanabe – Sabadell

SPAIN – Division 3
Yukiya Sugita – Hércules

PORTUGAL – DIvision 1
Junya Tanaka – Sporting

PORTUGAL – DIvision 2
Mu Kanazaki – Portimonense

SWITZERLAND
Yuya Kubo – Young Boys of Berne
Yoichiro Kakitani – FC Basel

BELGIUM
Eiji Kawashima – Standard Liège
Yuji Ono – Standard Liège

HOLLAND – Division 2
Yuki Otsu – VVV Venlo

RUSSIA
Takafumi Akahoshi – FK Ufa

POLAND
Takuya Murayama – Pogon Szczecin
Shohei Okuno – Pogon Szczecin

ROMANIA
Takayuki Seto – Astra Giurgiu