No	Pos	Player	Age	Caps	Club
1	GK	Eiji Kawashima	31	56	Standard Liège
12	GK	Shusaku Nishikawa	27	13	Urawa Red Diamonds
23	GK	Shūichi Gonda	25	2	FC Tokyo
2	DF	Atsuto Uchida	26	68	Schalke 04
3	DF	Gōtoku Sakai	23	12	VfB Stuttgart
5	DF	Yuto Nagatomo	27	70	Inter Milan
6	DF	Masato Morishige	27	10	FC Tokyo
15	DF	Yasuyuki Konno	31	81	Gamba Osaka
19	DF	Masahiko Inoha	30	21	Júbilo Iwata
21	DF	Hiroki Sakai	24	18	Hannover 96
22	DF	Maya Yoshida	25	41	Southampton
4	MF	Keisuke Honda	27	56	Inter Milan
7	MF	Yasuhito Endō	34	144	Gamba Osaka
8	MF	Hiroshi Kiyotake	24	25	1. FC Nürnberg
10	MF	Shinji Kagawa	25	57	Manchester United
14	MF	Toshihiro Aoyama	28	6	Sanfrecce Hiroshima
16	MF	Hotaru Yamaguchi	23	12	Cerezo Osaka
17	MF	Makoto Hasebe	30	78	1. FC Nürnberg
9	FW	Shinji Okazaki	28	76	Mainz 05
11	FW	Yoichiro Kakitani	24	12	Cerezo Osaka
13	FW	Yoshito Ōkubo	32	57	Kawasaki Frontale
18	FW	Yuya Osako	24	9	1860 Munich
20	FW	Manabu Saitō	24	5	Yokohama F. Marinos