Paris St. Germain will play three preseason matches in Japan in July, becoming the first European club to visit the country since 2019.

The club will face the J. League's Kawasaki Frontale, Urawa Reds and Gamba Osaka on July 20, 23 and 25.

PSG, which won its record 10th French League title last month, will be the first club from Europe to visit Japan since before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Japan has largely been closed to international teams and sporting events over the last 2½ years, but is showing increasing signs of opening up.

The 2020 Olympics were postponed by a year due to the pandemic but were held in 2021, while Fukuoka will host the swimming world championships in 2023, after originally being scheduled to host in 2022.

Japan also continued to hold matches in Asia's preliminary rounds for November's FIFA World Cup under tight restrictions as the Samurai Blue qualified for the finals in Qatar.

The national team will play friendlies against Paraguay and Brazil in June and will also feature in the Kirin Cup, in which Japan will be joined by Ghana, Chile and Tunisia in a four-team tournament.

The East Asian Championships will be held in Japan in July, with the nation stepping in to host the competition after China relinquished the rights to run the regional tournament due the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.