Former Japan national team candidates Masaya Okugawa and Tatsuya Ito have taken unconventional paths toward their J-League first-division debuts in the upcoming season, having each spent nearly a decade playing in Europe.The two have received Samurai Blue call-ups but gone uncapped in an era when Japfan's ever-increasing talent pool means playing in Europe's top domestic leagues or the Champions League is no longer an automatic ticket to selection.Kyoto Sanga youth product Okugawa left for Red Bull Salzburg in the summer of 2015, months into his first professional season with the then J2 cl…READ FULL ARTICLE
