Yamazaki Nabisco Cup finalists Mu Kanazaki and Takashi Usami could be set to spearhead Japan’s attack after being called-up for matches against Singapore and Cambodia.

The Japan Football Association on Thursday released their list of 23 call-ups for the national team’s upcoming 2018 FIFA World Cup and AFC 2019 Asian Cup qualifiers.

Urawa Reds centre-back Tomoaki Makino Urawa Reds, Shonan Bellmare’s Wataru Endo and Gamba Osaka’s Masaaki Higashiguchi are other prominent representatives of the J.League who received the nod from coach Vahid Halilhodzic.

The Samurai Blue will travel to Singapore on November 12, before facing Cambodia on November 17.

Full squad list for Japan:

GK
Shusaku Nishikawa (Urawa Reds)
Masaaki Higashiguchi (Gamba Osaka)
Akihiro Hayashi (Sagan Tosu)

DF
Yuto Nagatomo (Inter)
Tomoaki Makino (Urawa Reds)
Masato Morishige (FC Tokyo)
Maya Yoshida (Southampton)
Hiroki Fujiharu (Gamba Osaka)
Yuichi Maruyama (FC Tokyo)
Hiroki Sakai (Hannover 96)

MF
Makoto Hasebe (Eintracht Frankfurt)
Yosuke Kashiwagi (Urawa Reds)
Shinji Kagawa (Borussia Dortmund)
Hiroshi Kiyotake (Hannover 96)
Hotaru Yamaguchi (Cerezo Osaka)
Wataru Endo (Shonan Bellmare)

FW
Shinji Okazaki (Leicester City)
Keisuke Honda (AC Milan)
Mu Kanazaki (Kashima Antlers)
Genki Haraguchi (Hertha Berlin)
Takashi Usami (Gamba Osaka)
Yoshinori Muto (Mainz 05)
Takumi Minamino (Red Bull Salzburg)