Beethoven city await Japan squad arrival

Bonn, the German city where Ludwig van Beethoven was born will be the base of the Japan squad in Germany for the World.

And their hosts are going all out to make their guest welcome .

It is putting up Japanese blue banners all over town, there is a German Japanese Media Partners Supporters centre set up in a local museum for 300 journalists following Japan and the team will take up an entire 252-room Hilton Hotel near the Rhine’s banks.

Japan will play Germany in Leverkusen on May 30 and Malta in Dusseldorf on June 4 in friendly matches ahead of the showpiece event.