Referees from Japan
Ryuji Sato
| Intl. since: | 2009 |
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Internationally quite busy but always in the second tier: AFC Cup and Challenge Cup, in 2012 Sato took charge of the final of the latter.
Yuichi Nishimura
| Intl. since: | 2004 |
| Hometown: | Tokyo |
Yuichi Nishimura had to stop a match between Al Karama (Syria) and Al Qadisiya (Kuwait) in Syria for twenty minutes when spectators started to throw stuff on the field after a smok
Minoru Tojo
| Intl. since: | 2007 |
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Tojo is an AFC Elite referee.
Masaaki Toma Iemoto
| Intl. since: | 2005 |
| Hometown: | Hiroshima |
Masaaki Iemoto Toma is on the AFC Elite referee list.
Jumpei Iida
| Intl. since: | 2011 |
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Yudai Yamamoto
| Intl. since: | 2011 |
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Hiroyuki Kimura
| Intl. since: | 2014 |
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Hiroyoshi Takayama
| Intl. since: | 2004 |
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Takayama was on the AFC Elite referee list in 2008.
Masayoshi Okada
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| Hometown: | Tokyo |
Okada took charge of one match in the 1998 World Cup. He was invited to officiate in the 1999 Copa America.
Toru Kamikawa
| Intl. since: | 1998 |
| Hometown: | Ebina City |
Iran striker Mohammad Ali Karimi once kicked him in the shin after Kamikawa sent off a team-mate.
Kenji Ogiya
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retired internationally at the end of 2010.
Hajime Matsuo
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Retired internationally at the end of 2010.
Takuto Okabe
| Intl. since: | 2015 |
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Kazuhiko Matsumura
| Intl. since: | 1999 |
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AFC Elite referee Matsumura - in the J League since December 1995 - was an international referee from 1999 till the end of 2008, when he reached the retirement age of 45.
Yusuke Araki
| Intl. since: | 2017 |
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Shizuo Takada
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Shin-Ichiro Obata
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Toshikazu Sano
| Intl. since: | |
| Hometown: | Ibaragi |
Toshikazu Sano officiated at the Olympic Games 1984 in Los Angeles.
Yozo Yokoyama
| Intl. since: | |
| Hometown: | Tokyo |
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Kiichiro Tachi
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Toshio Asami
| Intl. since: | 1961 |
| Hometown: | Urawa / Nagoya / Yokohama |
Toshio Asami was born in Saitama Prefecture on 3 October 1933 and was active as FIFA referee from 1961 to 1983.
Sachiko Yamagishi
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Sachiko Baba
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Sachiko Baba, AFC referee of the year 2008, took charge of a matches in the (men's) AFC u16 Cup in 2007 and 2009. For some reason Baba did not appear anymore on the FIFA list in 20
Toshimitsu Yoshida
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| Hometown: | Ibaraki |
Toshimitsu Yoshida will be remembered by an error he made in the 2006 World Cup qualifier Uzbekistan - Bahrain.
Yoshimi Yamashita
| Intl. since: | 2015 |
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Kazuo Yasudo
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| Hometown: | Tokyo |
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Yoshimi Ogawa
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In his function as AFC Referees director Ogawa stated goal-line technology could be the best possible solution to whether the ball had actually crossed the goal-line or not. It is
Naotsugu Fuse
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| Hometown: | Tokyo |
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Yoshiyuki Maruyama
| Intl. since: | 1961 |
| Hometown: | Tokyo, Tochigi Prefecture |
Maruyama was elected to Japan Football Hall of Fame in 2009.
Etsuko Fukano
| Intl. since: | 2006 |
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Etsuko Fukano is an AFC Elite woman Referee. She was active in the u20 women WC of 2010 in Germany and the u17 women WC of 2008. In the first one she got 2 matches and in the secon
Junichi Nishi
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| Hometown: | Osaka |
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Masatoshi Nagashima
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| Hometown: | Tokyo |
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Shunsaku Nakanishi
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| Hometown: | Saitama |
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Sano Toshikazu
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Hiroyuki Umemoto
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Yoshitsugo Katayama
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| Hometown: | Kyoto |
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Kiyoshi Ota
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Hiroshi Tanabe
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Morisaburo Kuramochi
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| Hometown: | Urawa |
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Hirofumi Yamanishi
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Joji Kashihara
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Genichi Fukushima
| Intl. since: | 1957 |
| Hometown: | Tokyo |
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Tadashi Kimura
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| Hometown: | Amagasaki |
Shigeaki Murakata
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| Hometown: | Tokyo |
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Ken-Ichiro Tezuka
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| Hometown: | Yokohama |
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Shojiro Nomura
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| Hometown: | Tokyo |
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Tokizo Ichihashi
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| Hometown: | Kobe |
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Shozaburo Sugimura
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| Hometown: | Hyogo |
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Takeshi Kamo
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| Hometown: | Tokyo |
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Teiichi Matsumaru
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| Hometown: | Tokyo |
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Jun-Ichi Yano
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| Hometown: | Toyonaka |
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Ko Arima
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| Hometown: | Tokyo |
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Taro Ikeda
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| Hometown: | Osaka |
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Harutsugu Ninomiya
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| Hometown: | Kobe |
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Kiyokazu Shimizu
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| Hometown: | Kobe |
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Sumio Hayakawa
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| Hometown: | Kamakura |
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Hiroshi Sato
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| Hometown: | Tokyo |
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Kanji Okamura
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| Hometown: | Kobe |
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Sigemaru Takenokoshi
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| Hometown: | Tokyo |
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Testuo Takayama
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| Hometown: | Osaka |
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