There will be at least two Japanese continental teams in existence in 2005: Team Nippo and Team Miyata Subaru. Team Nippo, which is based in Italy, has an Italian core consisting of Daniele Della Tommasina, Lorenzo Di Silvestro, Giuseppe Ribolzi, Andrea Rinadini, Davide Silvestri and Eddy Ratti. They will combine with Japanese riders Kazuya Okazaki, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Tetsuya Ishida, Takeshi Hashimoto and Kazuyuki Manabe, and others Sergio Cuesta Iglesias (Spa), Lukas Fus (Cze), Wojtiech Dybel and Mariusz Wiesiak (Pol) and Der Zsolt (Scg).
Team Miyata Subaru is purely Japanese, and will be led by Masahiko Mifune, with Takeaki Ayabe, Akira Kakinuma, Kazutaka Mizuo, Taichi Moriyawa, Kojiro Nakagawa, Takuya Nishimura, Atsushi Takano and Kohei Tsusue all on board.
