The Japan Football Association officially named Bosnian Vahid Halilhodzic as Japan's new national team manager on Thursday.
The 62-year-old, who led Algeria to the last 16 of last summer's World Cup in Brazil, succeeds Mexican Javier Aguirre, who was fired in February after a match-fixing case naming him as a defendant was accepted by a Spanish court.
Halilhodzic has worked for various clubs and national teams — mainly in France and Africa — over an 18-year managerial career, winning the French Cup with Paris Saint-Germain in 2004 and leading both Cote d'Ivoire and Algeria to World Cup qualification.