Aya Terakawa and Ryosuke Irie will headline the 37-member squad for the FINA 2009 World Swimming Championships in Rome, the Japan Amateur Swimming Federation announced Monday.
The members were selected based on the outcome of the four-day National Championships, which just wrapped up Sunday in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture.
Beijing Olympics bronze medalist in butterfly Takeshi Matsuda, Hanae Ito (free style and backstroke), Haruka Ueda (free) and Asami Kitagawa (individual medley) also made the team.