Japan will play Bosnia-Herzegovina in a friendly on Feb. 28, one day earlier than the original plan, Japan Football Association President Saburo Kawabuchi said Wednesday.
Kawabuchi said Dortmund or Dusseldorf are on the shortlist of candidate venues to host the match as the JFA wants it to be played in Germany, hosts of this summer's World Cup finals.
The friendly was hastily arranged after the Asian Cup qualifier between Japan and Saudi Arabia was postponed from March 1 to Sept. 1.
The JFA had hoped to change the match day to Feb. 28 in order to give Japanese international players more time in the runup to the opening of the new J. League season on March 4.
Japan, cohost of the 2002 finals with South Korea, will make its third straight World Cup appearance in Germany.
Japan kicks off its World Cup campaign in Group F against Australia in Kaiserslautern on June 12, before moving to Nuremberg to play Croatia on June 18 and then to Dortmund for a match with five-time champion Brazil four days later.