Wigan Athletic striker Ryo Miyaichi has been recalled for Japan's upcoming World Cup qualifying warmups away to France and five-time world champion Brazil as the Japan Football Association announced a 23-man squad on Thursday.
Manchester United's Shinji Kagawa, CSKA Moscow's Keisuke Honda and Takashi Inui, who has been in good form with three goals so far this season for Eintracht Frankfurt, were also named to the squad that will play France in Paris on Oct. 12 and Brazil in Wrocklaw, Poland, four days later.
Miyaichi, on loan to Wigan from Arsenal, returns to the fold and gets the chance to win his second cap having been left out of the squad that beat the United Arab Emirates 1-0 in a friendly in Niigata last month before edging Zico's Iraq by the same scoreline in their fourth match of the final round of qualifiers for Brazil 2014.