Japan has included towering FC Tokyo striker Sota Hirayama and full international Hiroki Mizumoto in the Under-21 squad named Friday for the Asian Games in Qatar in December.
Goalkeeper Shusaku Nishikawa and defender Naoaki Aoyama, both of whom have received recent callups for the senior national side, and striker Robert Cullen were also in the 20-man party expected to form the nucleus of Japan's team for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Takuya Honda was one of three university students to make the final squad headed by Yasuharu Sorimachi for the Dec. 1-15 event in Doha.