FILE PHOTO: Football Soccer - Japan Men's Training - 2016 Rio Olympics - Serra Dourada Stadium, Goiania, Brazil - 29/07/2016. Japan's Takuma Asano during a training session before their international friendly soccer match against Brazil. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
(Reuters) - Arsenal forward Takuma Asano will return to VfB Stuttgart for a second successive season on loan, the English Premier League club said on Thursday.
The 22-year-old Japan international joined Arsenal in July last year and was loaned out to Stuttgart shortly after for the 2016-17 campaign, where he scored four goals in 26 league appearances as the club won promotion to the top tier.
