The PBA Tour is making its traditional stop in Japan and ESPN will air the finals of the 27th Round 1 Japan Cup from Tokyo’s Minami Suna Bowling Center Sunday, Jan. 12 at 1 p.m. ET.

PBA players advancing to the finals were 2011-12 PBA Player of the Year Sean Rash, three-time Japan Cup champion Tommy Jones, 2003 winner Chris Barnes, Osku Palermaa and E.J. Tackett, who earned an entry into the tournament through a pro tour qualifier. They will join JPBA members Kazuaki Watanabe, Yuya Katoh and Shinichi Horie in the finals.

The Japan players will try to break a 25-year title drought. Only two Japanese players, Ken Taniguchi (inaugural event in 1985) and Takeo Sakai (1988) have won the Japan Cup.

Rash, Jones and Barnes were among 20 PBA players (16 based on points and four invited players) in the field. Other PBA players who qualified through points were Jason Belmonte, Pete Weber, Chris Loschetter, Wes Malott, Scott Norton, Bill O’Neill, Parker Bohn III, defending champion Mika Koivuniemi, Stuart Williams, Dan MacLelland, Jason Sterner, Mike Fagan and Norm Duke.

Koivuniemi, who defeated Japan’s Yoshihiro Kaji for his second Round1 Japan Cup title last December, was one of five multiple champions in a field that also included Bohn (a four-time winner), and two-time winners Weber, Amleto Monacelli and Walter Ray Williams Jr.

The four players invited by the Japan Cup organizing committee included Palermaa, Rhino Page, Williams Jr. and Monacelli.