Japan at the Asian Games | |
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IOC code | JPN |
NOC | Japanese Olympic Committee |
Medals Ranked 2nd |
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Summer appearances | |
Winter appearances | |
Japan has competed at the Asian Games since their inception in 1951, held in New Delhi, India. The National Olympic Committee of Japan, Japanese Olympic Committee, is responsible for organizing Japan's participation in the Asian Games. The Committee was established in 1911 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 1912; it is also the oldest Asian National Olympic Committee.[1][2] Japan has a distinguished achievement among all Asian sport teams, being the only one to have won at least 20 gold medals at every Asian Games.
Games | Athlete | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank |
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1951 New Delhi[3] | 65 | 24 | 21 | 15 | 60 | 1 |
1954 Manila[4] | 151 | 38 | 36 | 24 | 98 | 1 |
1958 Tokyo[5] | 287 | 67 | 41 | 30 | 138 | 1 |
1962 Jakarta[6] | 209 | 73 | 56 | 23 | 152 | 1 |
1966 Bangkok[7] | 216 | 78 | 53 | 33 | 164 | 1 |
1970 Bangkok[8] | 221 | 74 | 47 | 23 | 144 | 1 |
1974 Tehran[9] | 290 | 75 | 49 | 51 | 175 | 1 |
1978 Bangkok[10] | 306 | 70 | 58 | 49 | 177 | 1 |
1982 Delhi[11] | 355 | 57 | 52 | 44 | 153 | 2 |
1986 Seoul[12] | 439 | 58 | 76 | 77 | 211 | 3 |
1990 Beijing[13] | 543 | 38 | 60 | 76 | 174 | 3 |
1994 Hiroshima[14] | 678 | 64 | 75 | 79 | 218 | 2 |
1998 Bangkok[15] | 629 | 52 | 61 | 68 | 181 | 3 |
2002 Busan[16] | 658 | 44 | 74 | 72 | 190 | 3 |
2006 Doha[17] | 626 | 50 | 71 | 77 | 198 | 3 |
2010 Guangzhou[18] | 726 | 48 | 74 | 94 | 216 | 3 |
2014 Incheon[19] | 711 | 47 | 77 | 76 | 200 | 3 |
2018 Jakarta & Palembang[20] | 758 | 75 | 56 | 74 | 205 | 2 |
2022 Hangzhou | 769 | 52 | 67 | 69 | 188 | 2 |
2026 Nagoya | Future event | |||||
Total (20/20) | 8,637 | 1084 | 1104 | 1054 | 3242 | 2 |
Sport | Rank | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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Archery | 2 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 25 |
Athletics | 1 | 194 | 221 | 171 | 586 |
Badminton | 5 | 7 | 8 | 25 | 40 |
Baseball | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
Beach volleyball | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
Basketball | 4 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 19 |
Board games | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Bodybuilding | 11 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
Bowling | 2 | 18 | 15 | 7 | 40 |
Boxing | 6 | 13 | 13 | 38 | 64 |
Canoeing | 4 | 6 | 14 | 19 | 39 |
Cricket | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Cue sports | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 11 |
Cycling | 1 | 53 | 54 | 27 | 134 |
Dancesport | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
Diving | 2 | 17 | 21 | 33 | 71 |
Equestrian | 1 | 18 | 12 | 8 | 38 |
Fencing | 3 | 13 | 13 | 40 | 66 |
Field hockey | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 |
Football | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 11 |
Golf | 3 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 18 |
Gymnastics | 2 | 19 | 33 | 51 | 103 |
Handball | 4 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 12 |
Judo | 1 | 56 | 37 | 30 | 123 |
Kabaddi | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Karate | 1 | 30 | 10 | 9 | 49 |
Modern pentathlon | 4 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
Roller sports | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
Rowing | 2 | 9 | 35 | 12 | 56 |
Rugby | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 9 |
Sailing | 3 | 20 | 22 | 12 | 54 |
Sepaktakraw | 8 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 10 |
Shooting | 3 | 54 | 44 | 55 | 153 |
Soft tennis | 3 | 7 | 11 | 14 | 32 |
Softball | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
Squash | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Swimming | 1 | 277 | 260 | 161 | 698 |
Synchronized swimming | 2 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 16 |
Table tennis | 2 | 20 | 18 | 42 | 80 |
Taekwondo | 15 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 13 |
Tennis | 1 | 27 | 18 | 38 | 83 |
Triathlon | 1 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 14 |
Volleyball | 1 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 27 |
Water polo | 3 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 17 |
Weightlifting | 4 | 23 | 19 | 29 | 71 |
Wrestling | 2 | 67 | 50 | 47 | 164 |
Wushu | 10 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 17 |
Total | 2 | 1032 | 1038 | 986 | 3055 |
Athlete | Sport | Years | Gender | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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Yoshimi Nishigawa | Swimming | 1970โ1974 | F | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Kosuke Kitajima | Swimming | 2002โ2010 | M | 7 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
Kunihiro Iwasaki | Swimming | 1966โ1970 | M | 7 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
Takashi Yamamoto | Swimming | 1998โ2006 | M | 7 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
Yoshiko Sato | Swimming | 1954โ1962 | F | 7 | 0 | 2 | 9 |
Ryosuke Irie | Swimming | 2006โ2022 | M | 6 | 10 | 2 | 18 |
Rikako Ikee | Swimming | 2018โ2022 | F | 6 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
Nobutaka Taguchi | Swimming | 1970โ1974 | M | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
Tadashi Honda | Swimming | 1970โ1974 | M | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
Kosuke Hagino | Swimming | 2014โ2018 | M | 5 | 3 | 3 | 11 |
Katsunori Fujiwara | Swimming | 1986โ1990 | M | 5 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
Reiko Miyagi | Tennis | 1958โ1966 | F | 5 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
Tsuyoshi Yanagidate | Swimming | 1974โ1978 | M | 5 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
Kengo Tagata | Bowling | 1986โ1998 | M | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
Takao Ishii | Shooting | 1962โ1966 | M | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
Hiroko Nagasaki | Swimming | 1982โ1986 | F | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
Shigenobu Murofushi | Athletics | 1966โ1986 | M | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
Keiichi Miki | Table tennis | 1962โ1966 | M | 5 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
Koji Watanabe | Tennis | 1962โ1966 | M | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Miya Tachibana | Synchronized swimming | 1994โ2002 | F | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Toyoko Yoshino | Athletics | 1951โ1954 | F | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Yasue Hatsuda | Swimming | 1974โ1978 | F | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Yoshiaki Oiwa | Equestrian | 2006โ2018 | M | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
Games | Athlete | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank |
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1986 Sapporo[21] | 92 | 29 | 23 | 6 | 58 | 1 |
1990 Sapporo[22] | 80 | 18 | 16 | 13 | 47 | 1 |
1996 Harbin[23] | 108 | 8 | 14 | 10 | 32 | 3 |
1999 Gangwon[24] | 100 | 6 | 14 | 9 | 29 | 4 |
2003 Aomori[25] | 154 | 24 | 23 | 20 | 67 | 1 |
2007 Changchun[26] | 113 | 13 | 9 | 14 | 36 | 2 |
2011 Astana & Almaty[27] | 103 | 13 | 24 | 17 | 54 | 2 |
2017 Sapporo & Obihiro | 146 | 27 | 21 | 26 | 74 | 1 |
2025 Harbin | Future Event | |||||
2029 Trojena | Future Event | |||||
Total | 138 | 144 | 115 | 397 | 1 |
Games | Athlete | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank |
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1993 Shanghai | 253 | 25 | 37 | 55 | 117 | 2 |
1997 Busan | 258 | 47 | 53 | 53 | 153 | 2 |
2001 Osaka | 327 | 61 | 65 | 65 | 191 | 2 |
2005 Macau | 335 | 46 | 56 | 77 | 179 | 2 |
2009 Hong Kong[28] | 378 | 62 | 58 | 70 | 190 | 2 |
2013 Tianjin | 436 | 47 | 57 | 75 | 179 | 2 |
Total | 288 | 326 | 395 | 1009 | 2 |
Games | Athlete | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank |
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2023 Ulaanbaatar | 48 | 22 | 6 | 13 | 41 | 2 |
Total | 22 | 6 | 13 | 41 | 2 |
Games | Athlete | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank |
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Asian Indoor Games | ||||||
2005 Bangkok | 30 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 7 |
2007 Macau | 102 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 26 | 7 |
2009 Hanoi | 94 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 23 | 11 |
Asian Martial Arts Games | ||||||
2009 Bangkok | 19 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 5 |
Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games | ||||||
2013 Incheon | 82 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 9 |
2017 Ashgabat | 60 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 20 |
Total | 33 | 29 | 47 | 109 |
Games | Athlete | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank |
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2008 Bali | 80 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 5 |
2010 Muscat | 46 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 |
2012 Haiyang | 85 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
2014 Phuket | 95 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 19 | 8 |
2016 Danang | 54 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 25 |
Total | 14 | 14 | 22 | 50 | 7 |
Games | Athlete | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank |
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2009 Singapore[29] | 38 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 6 |
2013 Nanjing[30] | 62 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 18 | 3 |
2025 Tashkent | Future event | |||||
Total | 12 | 11 | 10 | 33 | 5 |
Games | Delegation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank |
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2010 Guangzhou | 225 | 32 | 39 | 32 | 103 | 2 |
2014 Incheon | 298 | 38 | 49 | 56 | 143 | 3 |
2018 Jakarta | 303 | 45 | 70 | 83 | 198 | 4 |
2022 Hangzhou | 259 | 42 | 49 | 59 | 150 | 3 |
Total | 157 | 217 | 230 | 594 | 4 |
Medals per sport
Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total
Archery 2 2 1 5
Athletics 32 44 36 112
Badminton 1 1 11 13
Blind Football 0 1 0 1
Boccia 0 1 1 2
Cycling Road 8 9 4 21
Goalball 1 1 2 4
Judo 3 8 15 26
Lawn Bowls 0 0 1 1
Para Dance Sport 0 0 1 1
Para Football 7-a-side 0 1 1 2
Para Sailing 0 1 0 1
Para Shooting 0 0 1 1
Para Tenpin Bowling 0 5 1 6
Powerlifting 0 0 2 2
Rowing 0 3 1 4
Sitting Volleyball 0 1 2 3
Swimming 54 62 67 183
Table Tennis 2 3 13 18
Wheelchair Basketball 2 4 0 6
Wheelchair Fencing 0 2 7 9
Wheelchair Rugby 1 0 0 1
Wheelchair Tennis 9 9 4 22
Total 115 158 171 444
Medals per year
Year Gold Silver Bronze Total
2018 45 70 83 198
2014 38 49 56 143
2010 32 39 32 103
Total 115 158 171 444
Games | Delegation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank |
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2009 Tokyo | 214 | 65 | 26 | 22 | 113 | 1 |
2013 Kuala Lumpur | 169 | 39 | 20 | 25 | 84 | 1 |
2017 Dubai | 146 | 43 | 29 | 26 | 98 | 1 |
2021 Manama | 85 | 30 | 11 | 14 | 55 | 3 |
Total | 177 | 86 | 87 | 350 | 1 |