[1][3] In early 1981, he played in the 1980 AFC Youth Championship,[4] following the December 1980 qualifying, where combined he scored 8 goals in 5 games.
[1] He got his first senior cap with the Japan national football team on January 30, 1981 against a young Poland,[5] entering at the 62nd minute.
[12] On August 11, 2019, Akira Komatsu was featured in an episode of the Tokyo Broadcasting System Television series Disappeared Genius.
[13][14] His younger brother, Tsutomu Komatsu ( 小松勉 ), is a former manager of the TDK Soccer Club.
[15] He served for the blue Nikaho team for nine years as a bench boss.