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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan midfielder Hajime Hosogai will join Germany's Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen from the Urawa Red Diamonds, local media reported on Thursday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"I made a positive decision to put myself in an environment that will be tough for me,\" Hosogai was quoted as saying by the Kyodo news agency.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The 24-year old played for Japan at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and made his debut for the national team in a home friendly against Paraguay in September.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leverkusen are third in the Bundesliga at the start of the four-week winter break, tied on 33 points with Mainz but 10 points behind league leaders Borussia Dortmund.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Japan's Shinji Kagawa (Dortmund), Atsuto Uchida (Schalke 04), Makoto Hasebe (VfL Wolfsburg) and Kisho Yano (Freiburg) alll play in the Bundesliga.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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