{"id":80510,"date":"2026-08-26T09:52:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T09:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/80510\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T09:52:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T09:52:31","slug":"the-high-quality-low-risk-reason-premier-league-clubs-are-buying-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/80510\/","title":{"rendered":"The high quality, low risk reason Premier League clubs are buying Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A record number of Japanese players are in the Premier League this season, with clubs attracted by their proven quality, value for money and the \u201cvery little risk\u201d involved in signing them.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Ten players from Japan were registered with top-tier English teams when the campaign kicked off last weekend and more are potentially on the way before the transfer window closes.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Zion Suzuki was the highest-profile arrival with his switch to Aston Villa, with former Arsenal defender Takehiro Tomiyasu returning to London with Crystal Palace, midfielder Hidemasa Morita joining Hull City and Daizen Maeda swapping Celtic for Ipswich Town.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They join an established group of the countrymen already in the top flight, including Brighton\u2019s Kaoru Mitoma, Liverpool\u2019s Wataru Endo and Palace\u2019s Daichi Kamada.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Fifa-registered agent Joel Pannick of CAA Base told AFP that English clubs have \u201cincreased confidence that signing a Japanese player is a good move to make\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Takehiro Tomiyasu (left) is back in the English top flight with Crystal Palace. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7c4efba6-9b42-48d4-a225-b893009d51ba_b6702d0d.jpg\" title=\"Takehiro Tomiyasu (left) is back in the English top flight with Crystal Palace. Photo: Reuters\"\/>Takehiro Tomiyasu (left) is back in the English top flight with Crystal Palace. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThere aren\u2019t many examples of clubs signing Japanese players and having issues with their adaptation, with their personality, with their integration into the squad, with discipline,\u201d said Pannick, who has about 60 Japanese players on his books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A record number of Japanese players are in the Premier League this season, with clubs attracted by their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6363,51519,48365,5171,11540,5134,624,1707,10965,51518,8,17,28771,7070,16874],"class_list":["post-80510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-afp","tag-arsenal","tag-aston-villa","tag-brighton","tag-celtic","tag-crystal-palace","tag-english","tag-europe","tag-fifa","tag-fulham","tag-japan","tag-japanese","tag-liverpool","tag-london","tag-premier-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}