Two goals from the visitors in either half were enough to seal the three points and get them back to winning ways after a stalemate with Australia last time out.

Ragnar Oratmangoen should have put Indonesia ahead, but he hesitated one-on-one with the goalkeeper, and Japan did not look back after that.

It got a bit of fortune with its first goal, Justin Hubner deflecting a cross into his own net in the 35th minute.

Takumi Minamino got the second just before the break, finishing off a pacy counter-attack by darting on to the end of Kaoru Mitoma’s cross to sweep it past Maarten Paes.

While there was not much the goalkeeper could do with that one, he was at fault for the third as he gifted the ball to Hidemasa Morita, who coolly picked out the bottom corner just after the break.

Yukinari Sugawara came off the bench to round off the scoring in the 69th minute. He raced down the right wing and instead of looking to his options, he rifled it in from a tight angle at the near post.

Japan is up to 13 points after five games, sitting top of Group C, while Indonesia is bottom, still in search of its first win.