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Nadeshiko coach names squad for Netherlands, Belgium tour

TOKYO, Japan, May 29 Kyodo - Nadeshiko Japan coach Asako Takakura names a 23-member squad on May 29, 2017, in Tokyo for her team's June tour of the Netherlands and Belgium. "We'll look to be aggressive both offensively and defensively, while also being clever," Takakura said.

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Soccer: Nadeshiko Japan sunk by Sweden in friendly

Members of the Japanese women's soccer team are seen after succumbing to Sweden 3-0 in a friendly on July 21, 2016 in Kalmar, Sweden. Former world champions Nadeshiko Japan remain winless in three games under new coach Asako Takakura. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soccer: Nadeshiko Japan sunk by Sweden in friendly

Japan's Saki Kumagai (C) reacts after the Swedes scored the opening goal in the second half of a friendly in Kalmar, Sweden on July 21, 2016. Former women's world champions Nadeshiko Japan, who lost 3-0 to Sweden, remain winless in three games under new coach Asako Takakura. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan coach Takakura names squad

Japanese women's soccer coach Asako Takakura names her squad for an upcoming friendly away to Sweden during a press conference on July 6, 2016, in Tokyo. Regular captain Aya Miyama, the three-time Asian Player of the Year, was overlooked as she "is still not right condition-wise," Takakura said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Women's World Cup rivals Japan, U.S. draw in friendly

Japan women's national soccer team coach Asako Takakura (front) smiles after Yuki Ogimi scores her team's second goal of the first half against the United States in an international friendly in Commerce City, Colorado, on June 2, 2016. A replay of the 2015 Women's World Cup final, the game ended 3-3. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takakura readies Nadeshiko for international friendly

New Nadeshiko Japan manager Asako Takakura speaks to reporters after a training session in Commerce City, Colorado, on June 1, 2016, ahead of her first match in charge. Japan will face the United States in an international friendly on June 2. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takakura readies Nadeshiko for international friendly

New Nadeshiko Japan manager Asako Takakura (L) attends a training session in Commerce City, Colorado, on June 1, 2016, ahead of her first match in charge. Japan will face the United States in an international friendly on June 2. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takakura readies Nadeshiko for international friendly

New Nadeshiko Japan manager Asako Takakura speaks to reporters after a training session in Commerce City, Colorado, on June 1, 2016, ahead of her first match in charge. Japan will face the United States in an international friendly on June 2. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soccer: New coach Takakura goes for youth in 1st Nadeshiko selection

New Nadeshiko Japan manager Asako Takakura announces 20 team members for her first matches in charge at a press conference in Tokyo on May 20, 2016. Takakura picked a youthful side after Japan failed to qualify for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takakura becomes Nadeshiko Japan manager

Asako Takakura, the new head coach of the national women's soccer team Nadeshiko Japan, attends a press conference in Tokyo on April 27, 2016. Replacing World-Cup winning coach Norio Sasaki, Takakura, 48, said she hopes her team will be the world's top team in women's soccer. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takakura becomes Nadeshiko Japan manager

Asako Takakura, the new head coach of the national women's soccer team Nadeshiko Japan, attends a press conference in Tokyo on April 27, 2016. Replacing World-Cup winning coach Norio Sasaki, Takakura, 48, said she hopes her team will be the world's top team in women's soccer. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takakura becomes Nadeshiko Japan manager

Asako Takakura, the new head coach of the national women's soccer team Nadeshiko Japan, attends a press conference in Tokyo on April 27, 2016. Replacing World-Cup winning coach Norio Sasaki, Takakura, 48, said she hopes her team will be the world's top team in women's soccer. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JFA poised to name Takakura as new Nadeshiko Japan manager

Undated photo shows Japan women's Under-20s coach Asako Takakura. It was reported on April 26, 2016, that the Japan Football Association is poised to name Takakura as the new head coach of the national women's team Nadeshiko Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takakura meets with reporters

Asako Takakura, coach of the Japanese women's under-20 soccer team, meets with reporters at Haneda airport in Tokyo on March 8, 2016, after returning from Spain. Takakura, who is said to be on the shortlist to succeed World Cup-winning women's national team coach Norio Sasaki, said she has not yet been approached. Sasaki is set to retire after Nadeshiko failed to qualify for a fourth successive Olympic Games. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan coach Sasaki to retire, Takakura on shortlist as successor

File photo taken March 2014 in San Jose shows Asako Takakura supervising a training session of Japan's Under-17 team. Takakura is said to be on the shortlist as a successor to World Cup-winning women's national team coach Norio Sasaki, who is set to retire after Nadeshiko failed to qualify for a fourth successive Olympic Games. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan coach Sasaki to retire, Takakura on shortlist as successor

Japan coach Norio Sasaki (R) watches a game against Vietnam on March 7, 2016, in Osaka. Sasaki, who coached Nadeshiko Japan to victory at the 2011 World Cup, will retire following their failure to qualify for a fourth successive Olympic Games. Asako Takakura, Japan's Under-20 coach, is said to be on the shortlist as a successor. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Women's World Cup

Asako Takakura, coach of the Japan women's football team, speaks in Rennes, France, on June 11, 2019, ahead of a Women's World Cup Group D match against Scotland on June 14. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan-Ghana women's friendly

Japan manager Asako Takakura shouts instructions during the second half of 7-1 victory over Ghana in a friendly in Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture, on April 1, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Japan win EAFF E-1 women's championship

Japan women's football team manager Asako Takakura holds the winner's trophy after her squad beat South Korea 1-0 in the final to secure their third EAFF E-1 Women's Football Championship title in Busan, South Korea, on Dec. 17, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Women's World Cup

Asako Takakura, coach of the Japan women's football team, arrives in Rennes, France, on June 11, 2019, ahead of a Women's World Cup Group D match against Scotland on June 14. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Women's World Cup

Japan coach Asako Takakura (C) gives instructions to Moeka Minami (12) during a scoreless draw with Argentina in a Women's World Cup Group D match in Paris on June 10, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Women's World Cup

Japan coach Asako Takakura gives instructions to her players during the second half of a scoreless draw with Argentina in a Women's World Cup Group D match in Paris on June 10, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Women's World Cup

Japan coach Asako Takakura (L) shakes hands with her players after a scoreless draw with Argentina in a Women's World Cup Group D match in Paris on June 10, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Women's World Cup

Japan coach Asako Takakura (R) shakes hands with Mana Iwabuchi after she was substituted during the second half of a Women's World Cup Group D match against Scotland on June 14, 2019, in Rennes, France. Japan won 2-1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Women's World Cup

Japan coach Asako Takakura gestures during the second half of a Women's World Cup Group D match against Scotland on June 14, 2019, in Rennes, France. Japan won 2-1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Japan training for Women's World Cup

Asako Takakura (wearing hat), coach of the Japan women's football team, talks to her players during a practice session in Le Touquet, France, on May 28, 2019, to prepare for a friendly against Spain on June 2 and the World Cup starting five days later. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Japan women's coach Asako Takakura

Japan women's football coach Asako Takakura gives an interview in Tokyo on May 17, 2019. Her team left on May 27 for the Women's World Cup in France. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Japan's departure to Women's World Cup

Japan women's football coach Asako Takakura is pictured at Tokyo's Haneda airport on May 27, 2019, before leaving for the Women's World Cup in France beginning June 7. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Japan squad announcement for Women's World Cup

Japan women's football coach Asako Takakura announces her squad in Tokyo on May 10, 2019, for the Women's World Cup in France beginning June 7. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Japan squad announcement for Women's World Cup

Japan women's football coach Asako Takakura announces her squad in Tokyo on May 10, 2019, for the Women's World Cup in France beginning June 7. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Japan's women train ahead of France clash

Asako Takakura, coach of Japan's women's football team, shouts instructions during training in Auxerre, France, on April 3, 2019, a day before a friendly against France. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: U.S.-Japan at SheBelieves Cup

Japan women's football coach Asako Takakura looks on during the second half of a 2-2 draw with the United States at the SheBelieves Cup women's football tournament in Chester, Pennsylvania, on Feb. 27, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: SheBelieves Cup

Japan women's football coach Asako Takakura speaks to the media in Chester, Pennsylvania, on Feb. 26, 2019, after her team's training for a match against the United States the following day at the four-nation SheBelieves Cup. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: SheBelieves Cup

Japan women's football coach Asako Takakura watches her players train in Chester, Pennsylvania, on Feb. 26, 2019, a day before a match against the United States at the four-nation SheBelieves Cup. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Asian Games: Japan coach Takakura meets press in Indonesia

Japan head coach Asako Takakura speaks at a news conference in Palembang, Indonesia, on Aug. 30, 2018, the eve of the Asian Games soccer final. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Japan coach Takakura

Japan women's football coach Asako Takakura speaks at a press conference at Narita airport, near Tokyo, on April 22, 2018, after her national team won the Women's Asian Cup. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Japan coach Takakura

Japan women's football coach Asako Takakura speaks at a press conference in Amman on April 19, 2018, ahead of the Women's Asian Cup final against Australia. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Japan coach Takakura

Japan women's football coach Asako Takakura speaks at a press conference in Amman on April 19, 2018, ahead of the Women's Asian Cup final against Australia. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Women's Asian Cup

Japan head coach Asako Takakura watches a Group B match between her team and South Korea in the Women's Asian Cup in Amman on April 10, 2018. The match ended in a scoreless draw. Japan would have booked an early ticket to the 2019 World Cup in France if they had won. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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East Asian football tournament

(From L) China women's coach Sigurour Ragnar Eyjolfsson, Japan coach Asako Takakura, North Korea coach Kim Kwang Min and South Korea coach Yoon Duk Yeo pose at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2017, two days before the start of the E-1 Football Championship. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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East Asian football tournament

(From L) China women's coach Sigurour Ragnar Eyjolfsson, Japan coach Asako Takakura, North Korea coach Kim Kwang Min and South Korea coach Yoon Duk Yeo attend a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2017, two days before the start of the E-1 Football Championship. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: N. Korea women's coach meets press in Tokyo

North Korea women's soccer coach Kim Kwang Min (R) speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2017, alongside Japan coach Asako Takakura, two days before the opening of the E-1 Football Championship involving Japan, China, North Korea and South Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soccer: Japan call up youngsters for Algarve Cup

Japan's women's national soccer coach Asako Takakura announces her squad for the March 1-8 Algarve Cup in Portugal at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2017. German-based striker Yuki Nagasato was left out as Takakura named four uncapped players. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo