{"id":30870,"date":"2025-04-21T21:27:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T12:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/?p=30870"},"modified":"2025-05-08T21:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:09:14","slug":"2025%e5%b9%b4-%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e4%bb%a3%e8%a1%a8%e5%bc%b7%e5%8c%96%e9%81%b8%e6%89%8b%e5%9b%a3%e5%8f%8a%e3%81%b3%e3%83%8a%e3%82%b7%e3%83%a7%e3%83%8a%e3%83%ab%e3%82%a2%e3%82%ab%e3%83%87%e3%83%9f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/2025%e5%b9%b4-%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e4%bb%a3%e8%a1%a8%e5%bc%b7%e5%8c%96%e9%81%b8%e6%89%8b%e5%9b%a3%e5%8f%8a%e3%81%b3%e3%83%8a%e3%82%b7%e3%83%a7%e3%83%8a%e3%83%ab%e3%82%a2%e3%82%ab%e3%83%87%e3%83%9f\/","title":{"rendered":"National Squads for 2025 Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-474 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/JapanNationalTeamLogo-254x300.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/JapanNationalTeamLogo-254x300.png 254w, https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/JapanNationalTeamLogo.png 594w\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"118\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Japan National Squads for 2025 have been announced. Please see the below links for all of the relevant squads.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/archives\/30873\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Men&#8217;s Japan National Squad &amp; Men&#8217;s Japan A Squad<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/archives\/30772\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Women&#8217;s Japan National Squad &amp; Japan National Academy (Female) Squad<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/archives\/30877\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Japan National Academy Squads (U19 &amp; U16)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Congratulations to all those selected and good luck for the year ahead.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>About the Men\u2019s Japan National Squad<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Men\u2019s Japan National Squad is an annual training squad consisting of the top performing players. The aim of the squad is to build an inspirational Men\u2019s National Team. Men\u2019s Japan National Teams that play International Cricket are selected from this squad, the Men\u2019s A Squad and the National Academy Squads.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>About the Men\u2019s Japan A Squad<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Men\u2019s Japan A Squad, is an annual training squad consisting of promising players with the potential of representing Japan. This squad aims to help such players maximise their potential.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>About the Women&#8217;s Japan National Squad<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Women\u2019s Japan National Squad is an annual training squad consisting of promising players. The aim of the squad is to build an inspirational Women\u2019s National Team. Women\u2019s Japan National Teams that play International Cricket are selected from this squad.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>About the <\/strong><\/span><strong>Japan National Academy (Female) Squad<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2024 the JCA created the Women\u2019s Development Squad as an annual training squad consisting of talented players. The aim of the squad is to develop players that can represent Japan in the future. From 2025 this will be renamed the Japan National Academy (Female).\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This squad will not have an age limit, and will also be where the Women\u2019s U19 Japan National Team will be selected from. It is hoped the Women\u2019s U19 team will play its first matches in 2026.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>About the Japan National Academy<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Japan National Academy has a Men\u2019s U19 category and a Men\u2019s U16 category. Each category is a group of promising players within each age limit that take part in an annual training program. The aim of the Men\u2019s U19 category is to build an inspirational Men\u2019s U19 Japan National Team while the Men\u2019s U16 category aims to develop the next generation of players. Men\u2019s U19 &amp; U16 Japan National Teams that play International Cricket are selected from both categories of the National Academy.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>J<\/b><strong>CA Official Social Media<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Facebook:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cricketjapan\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cricketjapan<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Instagram:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/japan_cricket\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/japan_cricket<\/a><\/li>\n<li>X:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CricketJapan\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/CricketJapan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japan National Squads for 2025 have been announced. Please see the below links for all of the relevant squads. Men&#8217;s Japan National Squad &amp; Men&#8217;s Japan A Squad Women&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":25874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,7,55,54,442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-news-and-articles","category-womens-national-team","category-mens-national-team","category-mens-national-team-u19","region-east-kanto-rca","region-hokkaido-rca","region-hokushinetsu-rca","region-kyushu-rca","region-north-kanto-rca","region-south-kanto-rca","region-tohoku-rca","region-tokai-rca","region-west-kanto-rca","region-454","region-kansai-rca"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30870"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31219,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30870\/revisions\/31219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}