1998 Japan national football team
This page records the details of the Japan national football team in 1998.
Results
| March 1 | Japan | 2–1 | South Korea | Kanagawa, Japan |
Nakayama  18'Jo 89' |
JFA | ? ?' |
Stadium: International Stadium Yokohama Attendance: 59,380 |
| March 7 | Japan | 0–2 | China PR | Tokyo, Japan |
| JFA | ? ?' ? ?' |
Stadium: Tokyo National Stadium Attendance: 53,226 |
| April 1 | Japan | 1–2 | South Korea | Seoul, South Korea |
| Nakayama 61' |
JFA | ? ?' ? ?' |
| May 17 | Japan | 1–1 | Paraguay | Tokyo, Japan |
| Soma 86' |
JFA | ? ?' |
Stadium: Tokyo National Stadium Attendance: 53,408 |
| May 24 | Japan | 0–0 | Czech Republic | Kanagawa, Japan |
| JFA | Stadium: International Stadium Yokohama Attendance: 66,930 |
| June 3 | Japan | 0–1 | Yugoslavia | Lausanne, Switzerland |
| JFA | ? ?' |
| October 28 | Japan | 1–0 | Egypt | Osaka, Japan |
| Nakayama 25' |
JFA | Stadium: Osaka Nagai Stadium Attendance: 47,996 |
Players statistics
| Player | -1997 | 02.15 | 03.01 | 03.07 | 04.01 | 05.17 | 05.24 | 06.03 | 06.14 | 06.20 | 06.26 | 10.28 | 1998 | Total |
| Masami Ihara | 109(5) | O | O | O | O | O | O | - | O | O | O | O | 10(0) | 119(5) |
| Kazuyoshi Miura | 83(53) | - | - | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1(0) | 84(53) |
| Tsuyoshi Kitazawa | 54(3) | - | O | O | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3(0) | 57(3) |
| Motohiro Yamaguchi | 49(4) | O | - | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | - | 9(0) | 58(4) |
| Naoki Soma | 43(3) | - | O | O | O | O(1) | O | O | O | O | O | O | 10(1) | 53(4) |
| Hiroshi Nanami | 36(6) | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | 11(0) | 47(6) |
| Hiroaki Morishima | 34(7) | - | - | - | - | O | - | - | - | O | - | O | 3(0) | 37(7) |
| Norio Omura | 26(4) | - | - | - | O | O | - | O | - | - | O | - | 4(0) | 30(4) |
| Akira Narahashi | 23(0) | O | O | O | - | O | O | O | O | O | O | - | 9(0) | 32(0) |
| Masashi Nakayama | 21(10) | - | O(1) | O | O(1) | O | O | O | O | O | O(1) | O(1) | 10(4) | 31(14) |
| Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi | 21(0) | - | - | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | 9(0) | 30(0) |
| Yutaka Akita | 20(3) | O | O | O | O | O | - | O | O | O | O | O | 10(0) | 30(3) |
| Masayuki Okano | 19(2) | - | O | O | O | - | - | O | - | O | - | - | 5(0) | 24(2) |
| Shoji Jo | 17(4) | O | O(1) | O | - | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | 10(1) | 27(5) |
| Hidetoshi Nakata | 16(5) | O(1) | O | O | O | - | O | O | O | O | O | O | 10(1) | 26(6) |
| Tadashi Nakamura | 15(0) | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1(0) | 16(0) |
| Toshihide Saito | 9(0) | - | - | - | - | O | O | O | - | - | - | O | 4(0) | 13(0) |
| Wagner Lopes | 6(3) | O | - | - | - | O | O | - | O | O | O | O | 7(0) | 13(3) |
| Takashi Hirano | 5(1) | O(2) | O | - | O | O | - | O | O | - | O | - | 7(2) | 12(3) |
| Eisuke Nakanishi | 5(0) | - | - | - | O | - | O | O | O | O | - | O | 6(0) | 11(0) |
| Toshihiro Hattori | 2(0) | O | O | O | - | - | - | O | - | - | - | O | 5(0) | 7(0) |
| Shigeyoshi Mochizuki | 2(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | 1(0) | 3(0) |
| Teruyoshi Ito | 1(0) | - | - | - | - | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1(0) | 2(0) |
| Shinji Ono | 0(0) | - | - | - | O | - | O | - | - | - | O | - | 3(0) | 3(0) |
| Seigo Narazaki | 0(0) | O | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2(0) | 2(0) |
| Atsushi Yanagisawa | 0(0) | O | - | - | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2(0) | 2(0) |
| Tadatoshi Masuda | 0(0) | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1(0) | 1(0) |
| Daisuke Ichikawa | 0(0) | - | - | - | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1(0) | 1(0) |
| Daisuke Oku | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | 1(0) | 1(0) |
| Tatsuhiko Kubo | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | 1(0) | 1(0) |