Three Celtic stars were in the squad and two played in the tense encounter in Xiamen
Daizen Maeda and Kyogo both featured for Japan in a hostile World Cup qualifier with China - which was briefly halted by a pitch invader who had to be apprehended by security.
There was a heavy police presence for the first encounter between the two teams since 2015 and loud booing drowned out the Japanese national anthem before kickoff. And while the game got started without incident, it soon had to be halted after a pitch invader with Chinese characters reading 'Rise of national football' painted on his back ran past security and approached Japanese goalkeeper Zion Suzuki.
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