The Japan national team held its first training session at its World Cup camp in Russia on Thursday.
Coach Akira Nishino and the 23-man squad arrived the previous night by charter flight after wrapping up their pre-World Cup camp in Innsbruck, Austria. Kazan is roughly one and a half hours east of Moscow by air.
The Samurai Blue concluded their warmup campaign on a high note by beating Paraguay 4-2 in the western Austrian resort city on Tuesday.