Celtic playmaker Shunsuke Nakamura, Eintracht Frankfurt's Junichi Inamoto, Saint-Etienne's Daisuke Matsui plus VfL Wolfsburg's Makoto Hasebe and Yoshito Okubo have all been included for the clash between Group A's top two teams.

"Australia are the top team in Asia. No other Asian teams have such solid individual skills as Australia," Okada said.

"We've improved our squad so we can beat such an excellent team," he said.

Australia currently lead the group with three wins from as many matches and are yet to concede a goal, while. Japan are two points behind their rivals.

Japan squad to play Australia in a World Cup qualifier at Yokohama International Stadium on February 11:

Ryota Tsuzuki (Urawa Reds), Eiji Kawashima (Kawasaki Frontale), Takanori Sugeno (Kashiwa Reysol), Shuhei Terada (Kawasaki Frontale), Yuji Nakazawa (Yokohama Marinos), Kazumichi Takagi (Gamba Osaka), Marcus Tulio Tanaka (Urawa), Yuichi Komano (Jubilo Iwata), Yuto Nagatomo (FC Tokyo), Michihiro Yasuda (Gamba Osaka), Atsuto Uchida (Kashima Antlers), Shunsuke Nakamura (Celtic), Hideo Hashimoto (Gamba Osaka), Junichi Inamoto (Eintracht Frankfurt), Yasuhito Endo (Gamba Osaka), Kengo Nakamura (Kawasaki Frontale), Daisuke Matsui (Saint-Etienne), Yasuyuki Konno (FC Tokyo), Makoto Hasebe (VfL Wolfsburg), Shinji Kagawa (Cerezo Osaka), Keiji Tamada (Nagoya Grampus), Seiichiro Maki (JEF United Chiba), Yoshito Okubo (Wolfsburg), Tatsuya Tanaka (Urawa Reds), Shinji Okazaki (Shimizu S-Pulse).