Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics
IOC code	JPN
NOC	Japanese Olympic Committee
Website	www.joc.or.jp
in Tokyo, Japan July 23 (23-07) – August 8, 2021 (2021-08-08)
Competitors	556 (295 men and 261 women) in 37 sports
Flag bearer (opening)	Rui Hachimura Yui Susaki
Flag bearer (closing)	Ryo Kiyuna
Medals Ranked 3rd	Gold Silver Bronze Total 27 14 17 58
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Japan was the host nation of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020 but postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the nation's official debut in 1912, Japanese athletes have appeared at every Summer Olympic Games in the modern era, except for the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, to which they were not invited due to the nation's role in World War II, and the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, as part of the United States-led boycott. The opening ceremony flag-bearers for Japan are basketball player Rui Hachimura and wrestler Yui Susaki. Karateka Ryo Kiyuna is the flag-bearer for the closing ceremony.

Japan finished the Games with 58 total medals, 27 being gold, an impressive improvement of the country's previous record performances from the 1964 Olympics (also held in Tokyo) and 2004 Olympics. This placed them third overall by gold first ranking (for the third time after 1964 and 1968) behind the United States and China. By total medals, they also fell behind the Russian Olympic Committee and the United Kingdom. It was the most successful Summer Olympics in Japan's history.

Medalists

Further information: 2020 Summer Olympics medal table

The following Japanese competitors won medals at the Games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Naohisa Takato	Judo	Men's 60 kg	24 July
Gold	Yui Ohashi	Swimming	Women's 400 metre individual medley	25 July
Gold	Yuto Horigome	Skateboarding	Men's street	25 July
Gold	Uta Abe	Judo	Women's 52 kg	25 July
Gold	Hifumi Abe	Judo	Men's 66 kg	25 July
Gold	Momiji Nishiya	Skateboarding	Women's street	26 July
Gold	Shohei Ono	Judo	Men's 73 kg	26 July
Gold	Jun Mizutani Mima Ito	Table tennis	Mixed doubles	26 July
Gold	Takanori Nagase	Judo	Men's 81 kg	27 July
Gold	Yamato Fujita Yukiko Ueno Nozomi Goto Yukiyo Mine Nayu Kiyohara Haruka Agatsuma Yuka Ichiguchi Yu Yamamoto Hitomi Kawabata Mana Atsumi Minori Naito Saki Yamazaki Nodoka Harada Sayaka Mori Eri Yamada	Softball	Women's tournament	27 July
Gold	Yui Ohashi	Swimming	Women's 200 metre individual medley	28 July
Gold	Chizuru Arai	Judo	Women's 70 kg	28 July
Gold	Daiki Hashimoto	Gymnastics	Men's artistic individual all-around	28 July
Gold	Shori Hamada	Judo	Women's 78 kg	29 July
Gold	Aaron Wolf	Judo	Men's 100 kg	29 July
Gold	Akira Sone	Judo	Women's +78 kg	30 July
Gold	Koki Kano Kazuyasu Minobe Satoru Uyama Masaru Yamada	Fencing	Men's team épée	30 July
Gold	Sena Irie	Boxing	Women's featherweight	3 August
Gold	Daiki Hashimoto	Gymnastics	Men's horizontal bar	3 August
Gold	Sakura Yosozumi	Skateboarding	Women's park	4 August
Gold	Yukako Kawai	Wrestling	Women's freestyle 62 kg	4 August
Gold	Risako Kawai	Wrestling	Women's freestyle 57 kg	5 August
Gold	Ryo Kiyuna	Karate	Men's kata	6 August
Gold	Mayu Mukaida	Wrestling	Women's freestyle 53 kg	6 August
Gold	Takuto Otoguro	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 65 kg	7 August
Gold	Yui Susaki	Wrestling	Women's freestyle 50 kg	7 August
Gold	Kōyō Aoyagi Suguru Iwazaki Masato Morishita Hiromi Itoh Yoshinobu Yamamoto Masahiro Tanaka Yasuaki Yamasaki Ryoji Kuribayashi Yūdai Ōno Kodai Senga Kaima Taira Ryutaro Umeno Takuya Kai Tetsuto Yamada Sōsuke Genda Hideto Asamura Ryosuke Kikuchi Hayato Sakamoto Munetaka Murakami Kensuke Kondo Yuki Yanagita Ryoya Kurihara Masataka Yoshida Seiya Suzuki Atsunori Inaba Makoto Kaneko Yoshinori Tateyama Yoshinori Murata Hirokazu Ibata Masaji Shimizu	Baseball	Men's tournament	7 August
Silver	Funa Tonaki	Judo	Women's 48 kg	24 July
Silver	Daiki Hashimoto Kazuma Kaya Takeru Kitazono Wataru Tanigawa	Gymnastics	Men's artistic team all-around	26 July
Silver	Kanoa Igarashi	Surfing	Men's shortboard	27 July
Silver	Tomoru Honda	Swimming	Men's 200 metre butterfly	28 July
Silver	Hifumi Abe Uta Abe Chizuru Arai Shori Hamada Hisayoshi Harasawa Shoichiro Mukai Takanori Nagase Shohei Ono Akira Sone Miku Tashiro Aaron Wolf Tsukasa Yoshida	Judo	Mixed team	31 July
Silver	Kenichiro Fumita	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 60 kg	2 August
Silver	Kokona Hiraki	Skateboarding	Women's park	4 August
Silver	Koki Ikeda	Athletics	Men's 20 kilometres walk	5 August
Silver	Kiyou Shimizu	Karate	Women's kata	5 August
Silver	Miu Hirano Kasumi Ishikawa Mima Ito	Table tennis	Women's team	5 August
Silver	Miho Nonaka	Sport climbing	Women's combined	6 August
Silver	Mone Inami	Golf	Women's individual	7 August
Silver	Moeko Nagaoka Maki Takada Naho Miyoshi Rui Machida Nako Motohashi Nanaka Todo Saki Hayashi Evelyn Mawuli Saori Miyazaki Yuki Miyazawa Himawari Akaho Monica Okoye	Basketball	Women's tournament	8 August
Silver	Yumi Kajihara	Cycling	Women's omnium	8 August
Bronze	Funa Nakayama	Skateboarding	Women's street	26 July
Bronze	Takaharu Furukawa Hiroki Muto Yuki Kawata	Archery	Men's team	26 July
Bronze	Tsukasa Yoshida	Judo	Women's 57 kg	26 July
Bronze	Amuro Tsuzuki	Surfing	Women's shortboard	27 July
Bronze	Mikiko Andoh	Weightlifting	Women's 59 kg	27 July
Bronze	Mima Ito	Table tennis	Women's singles	29 July
Bronze	Yuta Watanabe Arisa Higashino	Badminton	Mixed doubles	30 July
Bronze	Takaharu Furukawa	Archery	Men's individual	31 July
Bronze	Kazuma Kaya	Gymnastics	Men's pommel horse	1 August
Bronze	Mai Murakami	Gymnastics	Women's floor	2 August
Bronze	Shohei Yabiku	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 77 kg	3 August
Bronze	Tsukimi Namiki	Boxing	Women's flyweight	4 August
Bronze	Ryomei Tanaka	Boxing	Men's flyweight	5 August
Bronze	Toshikazu Yamanishi	Athletics	Men's 20 kilometres walk	5 August
Bronze	Jun Mizutani Koki Niwa Tomokazu Harimoto	Table tennis	Men's team	6 August
Bronze	Akiyo Noguchi	Sport climbing	Women's combined	6 August
Bronze	Ryutaro Araga	Karate	Men's +75 kg	7 August

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Judo	9	2	1	12
Wrestling	5	1	1	7
Skateboarding	3	1	1	5
Gymnastics	2	1	2	5
Swimming	2	1	0	3
Table tennis	1	1	2	4
Karate	1	1	1	3
Boxing	1	0	2	3
Baseball	1	0	0	1
Fencing	1	0	0	1
Softball	1	0	0	1
Athletics	0	1	1	2
Sport climbing	0	1	1	2
Surfing	0	1	1	2
Basketball	0	1	0	1
Cycling	0	1	0	1
Golf	0	1	0	1
Archery	0	0	2	2
Badminton	0	0	1	1
Weightlifting	0	0	1	1
Total	27	14	17	58

Medals by day
Day				Total
July 24	1	1	0	2
July 25	4	0	0	4
July 26	3	1	3	7
July 27	2	1	2	5
July 28	3	1	0	4
July 29	2	0	1	3
July 30	2	0	1	3
July 31	0	1	1	2
August 1	0	0	1	1
August 2	0	1	1	2
August 3	2	0	1	3
August 4	2	1	1	4
August 5	1	3	2	6
August 6	2	1	2	5
August 7	3	1	1	5
August 8	0	2	0	2
Total	27	14	17	58

Medals by gender
Gender				Total
Female	14	8	8	30
Male	12	5	8	25
Mixed	1	1	1	3
Total	27	14	17	58

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. Note that reserves in field hockey, football, and handball are not counted:

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Archery	3	3	6
Artistic swimming	N/A	9	9
Athletics	41	9	50
Badminton	6	7	13
Baseball	24	N/A	24
Basketball	12	16	28
Boxing	4	2	6
Canoeing	7	5	12
Cycling	6	7	13
Diving	4	4	8
Equestrian	9	0	9
Fencing	12	9	21
Field hockey	16	16	32
Football	18	18	36
Golf	2	2	4
Gymnastics	5	12	17
Handball	14	14	28
Judo	7	7	14
Karate	4	4	8
Modern pentathlon	1	2	3
Rugby sevens	12	12	24
Sailing	8	7	15
Shooting	6	6	12
Skateboarding	4	6	10
Softball	N/A	15	15
Sport climbing	2	2	4
Surfing	2	2	4
Swimming	18	17	35
Table tennis	3	3	6
Taekwondo	2	2	4
Tennis	4	5	9
Triathlon	2	2	4
Volleyball	14	14	28
Water polo	13	13	26
Weightlifting	4	3	7
Wrestling	6	6	12
Total	295	261	556

Archery

Main articles: Archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Japan fielded six archers (three men and three women) at the Games, as the host nation is automatically entitled to use the men's and women's team quota places.

The host nation's archery team was officially announced on March 21, 2021, with London 2012 silver medalist Takaharu Furukawa slated to shoot at his fifth consecutive Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Takaharu Furukawa	Individual	649	46	Álvarez (MEX) W 7–3	Broeksma (NED) W 6–5	Das (IND) W 3–1	Lia Jl (CHN) W 4–0	Gazoz (TUR) L 1–4	Tang C-c (TPE) W 4–1
Yuki Kawata		661	22	de Smedt (BEL) L 2–6	Did not advance
Hiroki Muto		678	5	Shanny (ISR) L 3–7	Did not advance
Takaharu Furukawa Yuki Kawata Hiroki Muto	Team	1988	4	N/A		Bye	United States (USA) W 5–1	South Korea (KOR) L 4–5	Netherlands (NED) W 5–4

Women

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ren Hayakawa	Individual	653	16	Đỗ (VIE) W 6–5	Kaufhold (USA) W 6–2	An S (KOR) L 4–6	Did not advance
Miki Nakamura		639	31	Horáčková (CZE) W 6–2	Jang M-h (KOR) W 6–2	Wu Jx (CHN) L 1–7	Did not advance
Azusa Yamauchi		665	7	Bishindeeg (MGL) W 6–2	Marusava (BLR) L 0–6	Did not advance
Ren Hayakawa Miki Nakamura Azusa Yamauchi	Team	1957	4	N/A		Bye	Belarus (BLR) L 3–5	Did not advance

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Hiroki Muto Azusa Yamauchi	Team	1343	3	France (FRA) L 3–5	Did not advance

Artistic swimming

Main articles: Artistic swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Artistic swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Japan as the host nation, entered a squad of eight artistic swimmers to compete in the women's duet and team event.

Athlete	Event	Technical routine		Free routine (preliminary)			Free routine (final)
		Points	Rank	Points	Total (technical + free)	Rank	Points	Total (technical + free)	Rank
Yukiko Inui Megumu Yoshida	Duet	93.3499	4	93.9333	187.2832	4 Q	94.4667	187.8166	4
Juka Fukumura Yukiko Inui Moeka Kijima Okina Kyogoku Mayu Tsukamoto Mashiro Yasunaga Akane Yanagisawa Megumu Yoshida	Team	93.3773	4	N/A			94.9333	188.3106	4

Athletics (track and field)

Main articles: Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Japanese athletes further achieved the entry standards, either by qualifying time or by world ranking, in the following track and field events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event): The team will be selected based on the results of the 2020 Japan Championships and once an athlete wins a medal in race walking and marathon, or attains the top eight position in track and field at the 2019 IAAF World Championships in Doha, Qatar.

Four marathon runners (two per gender) were the first set of Japanese track and field athletes being selected for the Games, with a top-two finish of their respective races at the Grand Championship in Tokyo on September 15, 2019. By winning the gold medals at the World Championships, race walkers Toshikazu Yamanishi and London 2012 Olympian Yusuke Suzuki were officially added to the track and field roster. Suguru Osako and Mao Ichiyama completed the nation's marathon team lineup at the Nagoya and Lake Biwa Marathon on March 8, 2020.

Key

• Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
• Q = Qualified for the next round
• q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
• NR = National record
• N/A = Round not applicable for the event
• Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

Track & road events

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Yuki Koike	100 m	Bye		10.22	4	Did not advance
Shuhei Tada		Bye		10.22	6	Did not advance
Ryota Yamagata		Bye		10.15	4	Did not advance
Abdul Hakim Sani Brown	200 m	21.41	6	N/A		Did not advance
Shota Iizuka		21.02	6			Did not advance
Jun Yamashita		20.78	5			Did not advance
Julian Walsh	400 m	46.57	6	N/A		Did not advance
Yuta Bando	5000 m	14:05.80	17	N/A				Did not advance
Hiroki Matsueda		14:15.54	18					Did not advance
Akira Aizawa	10000 m	N/A						28:18.37	17
Tatsuhiko Ito								29:01.31	22
Shunsuke Izumiya	110 m hurdles	13.28	2 Q	N/A		13.35	3	Did not advance
Taio Kanai		13.41	3 Q			26.11	8	Did not advance
Shunya Takayama		13.98	6			Did not advance
Takatoshi Abe	400 m hurdles	49.98	6	N/A		Did not advance
Kazuki Kurokawa		50.30	6			Did not advance
Hiromu Yamauchi		49.21	3 Q			49.35	6	Did not advance
Ryoma Aoki	3000 m steeplechase	8:24.82	9	N/A				Did not advance
Ryuji Miura		8:09.92	2 Q					8:16.90	7
Kosei Yamaguchi		8:31.27	12					Did not advance
Bruno Dede* Yoshihide Kiryu Yuki Koike Shuhei Tada Ryota Yamagata	4 × 100 m relay	38.16	3 Q	N/A				DNF
Rikuya Itō Kaito Kawabata Kentarō Satō Aoto Suzuki Julian Walsh*	4 × 400 m relay	3:00.76	5	N/A				Did not advance
Yuma Hattori	Marathon	N/A						2:30:08	73
Shogo Nakamura								2:22:23	62
Suguru Osako								2:10:41	6
Koki Ikeda	20 km walk	N/A						1:12:14
Eiki Takahashi								1:27:29	32
Toshikazu Yamanishi								1:12:28
Hayato Katsuki	50 km walk	N/A						4:06:32	30
Masatora Kawano								3:51:56	6
Satoshi Maruo								4:06:44	32

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Ran Urabe	1500 m	4:07.90	9	Did not advance
Nozomi Tanaka		4:02.33 NR	4 Q	3:59.19 NR	5 Q	3:59.95	8
Kaede Hagitani	5000 m	15:04.95	12	N/A		Did not advance
Ririka Hironaka		14:55.87	9 q			14:52.84 NR	9
Nozomi Tanaka		14:59.93	=6			Did not advance
Yuka Ando	10000 m	N/A				32:40.77	23
Ririka Hironaka						31:00.71 PB	7
Hitomi Niiya						32:23.87 SB	22
Masumi Aoki	100 m hurdles	13.59	7	Did not advance
Ayako Kimura		13.25	7	Did not advance
Asuka Terada		12.95	5 q	13.06	6	Did not advance
Yuno Yamanaka	3000 m steeplechase	9:43.83	10	N/A		Did not advance
Hanae Aoyama Yu Ishikawa* Mei Kodama Remi Tsuruta Ami Saitō	4 × 100 m relay	43.44	7	N/A		Did not advance
Mao Ichiyama	Marathon	N/A				2:30:13	8
Honami Maeda						2:35:28	33
Ayuko Suzuki						2:33:14	19
Nanako Fujii	20 km walk	N/A				1:31:55	13
Kumiko Okada						1:31:57	15

Field events

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Yuki Hashioka	Long jump	8.17	3 Q	8.10	6
Shotaro Shiroyama		7.70	23	Did not advance
Hibiki Tsuha		7.61	26	Did not advance
Takashi Eto	High jump	2.21	=17	Did not advance
Naoto Tobe		2.28	=4 q	2.24	13
Masaki Ejima	Pole vault	5.30	=25	Did not advance
Seito Yamamoto		5.30	=25	Did not advance
Takuto Kominami	Javelin throw	78.39	19	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Haruka Kitaguchi	Javelin throw	62.06	6 q	55.42	12

Badminton

Main articles: Badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Japan as the host nation, entered thirteen badminton players for each of the following events into the Olympic tournament based on the BWF Race to Tokyo Rankings. The team was announced by the Nippon Badminton Association on 18 June 2021.

Men

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Elimination	Quarter-finals	Semi-finals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Kento Momota	Singles	Lam (USA) W (21–12, 21–9)	Heo K-h (KOR) L (15–21, 19–21)	N/A	2	Did not advance
Kanta Tsuneyama		Paul (MRI) W (21–8, 21–6)	Coelho (BRA) W (21–14, 21–8)	N/A	1 Q	Ginting (INA) L (18–21, 14–21)	Did not advance
Hiroyuki Endo Yuta Watanabe	Doubles	Olofua / Opeyori (NGR) W (21–2, 21–7)	Ivanov / Sozonov (ROC) W (21–19, 21–19)	Astrup / Rasmussen (DEN) W (21–14, 21–12)	1 Q	N/A	Lee Y / Wang C-l (TPE) L (16–21, 19–21)	Did not advance
Takeshi Kamura Keigo Sonoda		Lamsfuß / Seidel (GER) W (21–13, 21–8)	P Chew / R Chew (USA) W (21–11, 21–3)	Li Jh / Liu Yc (CHN) L (14–21, 16–21)	2 Q	N/A	Ahsan / Setiawan (INA) L (14–21, 21–16, 9–21)	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Elimination	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Akane Yamaguchi	Singles	Shahzad (PAK) W (21–3, 21–8)	Gilmour (GBR) W (21–9, 21–18)	N/A	1 Q	Kim G-e (KOR) W (21–17, 21–18)	Sindhu (IND) L (13–21, 20–22)	Did not advance
Nozomi Okuhara		Li (GER) W (21–17, 21–4)	Kosetskaya (ROC) W (21–6, 21–16)	N/A	1 Q	Li (CAN) W (21–9, 21–7)	He Bj (CHN) L (21–13, 13–21, 14–21)	Did not advance
Yuki Fukushima Sayaka Hirota	Doubles	Birch / Smith (GBR) W (21–13, 21–14)	Chow M K / Lee M Y (MAS) W (17–21, 21–15, 21–8)	Polii / Rahayu (INA) L (22–24, 21–13, 8–21)	2 Q	N/A	Chen Qc / Jia Yf (CHN) L (21–18, 10–21, 10–21)	Did not advance
Mayu Matsumoto Wakana Nagahara		Hany / Hosny (EGY) W (21–7, 21–3)	Honderich / Tsai (CAN) W (14–21, 21–19, 21–18)	Piek / Seinen (NED) W (24–22, 21–15)	1 Q	N/A	Kim S-y / Kong H-y (KOR) L (14–21, 21–14, 26–28)	Did not advance

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank=	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Yuta Watanabe Arisa Higashino	Doubles	Christiansen / Bøje (DEN) W (20–22, 21–11, 21–15)	Leung / Somerville (AUS) W (21–7, 21–15)	Jordan / Oktavianti (INA) W (21–13, 21–10)	1 Q	Puavaranukroh / Taerattanachai (THA) W (15–21, 21–16, 21–14)	Wang / Huang (CHN) L (23–21, 15–21, 14–21)	Tang C M / Tse Y S (HKG) W (21–17, 23–21)

Baseball

Main article: Baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Japan national baseball team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation.

Team roster

Baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Team squads

Group play

28 July 12:00 (JST)
Fukushima Azuma Baseball Stadium

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Dominican Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	3	8	0
Japan	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	4	9	0
WP: Ryoji Kuribayashi (1–0)   LP: Jairo Asencio (0–1) Boxscore

31 July 12:00
Yokohama Stadium

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Japan	0	1	1	3	0	0	1	1	0	7	10	0
Mexico	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	4	7	2
WP: Masato Morishita (1–0)   LP: Juan Pablo Oramas (0–1)   Sv: Ryoji Kuribayashi (1) Home runs: JPN: Tetsuto Yamada (1), Hayato Sakamoto (1) MEX: Joey Meneses (1) Boxscore

Round 2

2 August 19:00
Yokohama Stadium

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	R	H	E
United States	0	0	0	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	6	12	2
Japan (10)	0	0	2	1	2	0	0	0	1	1	7	12	0
WP: Ryoji Kuribayashi (2–0)   LP: Edwin Jackson (0–1) Home runs: USA: Triston Casas (2) JPN: Seiya Suzuki (1) Boxscore

Semifinal

4 August 19:00
Yokohama Stadium

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
South Korea	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	7	1
Japan	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	X	5	9	1
WP: Hiromi Itoh (1–0)   LP: Go Woo-suk (0–1)   Sv: Ryoji Kuribayashi (2) Boxscore

Gold medal game

7 August 19:00
Yokohama Stadium

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
United States	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	1
Japan	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	X	2	8	0
WP: Masato Morishita (2–0)   LP: Nick Martinez (1–1)   Sv: Ryoji Kuribayashi (3) Home runs: USA: None JPN: Munetaka Murakami (1) Boxscore

Basketball

Main article: Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Indoor

Men's tournament

Main article: Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Japan men's basketball team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation.

Team roster

The roster was announced on 5 July 2021.

Japan national basketball team roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Name Age – Date of birth Ht. Club Ctr. PG 2 Togashi, Yuki – (1993-07-30)30 July 1993 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) Chiba Jets Funabashi SG 6 Hiejima, Makoto – (1990-04-11)11 April 1990 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) Utsunomiya Brex SF 8 Hachimura, Rui – (1998-02-08)8 February 1998 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) Washington Wizards PG 9 Vendrame, Leo – (1993-11-14)14 November 1993 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) Sun Rockers Shibuya SF 12 Watanabe, Yuta – (1996-10-13)13 October 1996 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) Toronto Raptors SG 14 Kanamaru, Kosuke – (1989-03-08)8 March 1989 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) Shimane Susanoo Magic SF 18 Baba, Yudai – (1995-11-07)7 November 1995 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) Melbourne United PF 23 Edwards, Gavin – (1988-01-15)15 January 1988 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) Chiba Jets Funabashi SG 24 Tanaka, Daiki – (1991-09-03)3 September 1991 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) Alvark Tokyo C 32 Schafer, Avi – (1998-01-28)28 January 1998 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) SeaHorses Mikawa PF 34 Watanabe, Hugh – (1998-12-23)23 December 1998 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) Ryukyu Golden Kings SF 88 Harimoto, Tenketsu – (1992-01-08)8 January 1992 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) Nagoya Diamond Dolphins	Head coach Julio Lamas Assistant coach(es) Herman Mandole Legend Club – describes last club before the tournament Age – describes age on 25 July 2021

Group play

26 July 2021 (2021-07-26) 21:00 v

Boxscore

Japan	77–88	Spain
Scoring by quarter: 14–18, 14–30, 28–21, 21–19
Pts: Hachimura 20 Rebs: Watanabe 8 Asts: Baba, Tanaka 5		Pts: Rubio 20 Rebs: Claver 9 Asts: Rubio 9

Saitama Super Arena, Saitama Referees: Aleksandar Glišić (SRB), Mārtiņš Kozlovskis (LAT), Rabah Noujaim (LIB)

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29 July 2021 (2021-07-29) 13:40 v

Boxscore

Slovenia	116–81	Japan
Scoring by quarter: 29–23, 24–18, 27–23, 36–17
Pts: Dončić 25 Rebs: Tobey 11 Asts: Dončić 7		Pts: Hachimura 34 Rebs: Hachimura , Watanabe 7 Asts: Hachimura , Tanaka 3

Saitama Super Arena, Saitama Referees: Aleksandar Glišić (SRB), Michael Weiland (CAN), Ferdinand Pascual (PHI)

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1 August 2021 (2021-08-01) 13:40 v

Boxscore

Argentina	97–77	Japan
Scoring by quarter: 26–16, 20–22, 19–15, 32–24
Pts: Scola 23 Rebs: Scola 10 Asts: Campazzo 11		Pts: Baba 18 Rebs: Hachimura 11 Asts: three players 3

Saitama Super Arena, Saitama Referees: Roberto Vázquez (PUR), Mārtiņš Kozlovskis (LAT), Michael Weiland (CAN)

Women's tournament

Main article: Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Japan women's basketball team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation.

Team roster

The roster was announced on 1 July 2021.

Japan women's national basketball team – 2020 Summer Olympics roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Name Age – Date of birth Ht. Club Ctr. PF 0 Nagaoka, Moeko – (1993-12-29)29 December 1993 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Toyota Antelopes C 8 Takada, Maki – (1989-08-23)23 August 1989 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) Denso Iris SG 12 Miyoshi, Naho – (1993-12-21)21 December 1993 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) Toyota Antelopes PG 13 Machida, Rui – (1993-03-08)8 March 1993 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) Fujitsu Red Wave PG 15 Motohashi, Nako – (1993-10-10)10 October 1993 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) Haneda Vickies SG 20 Todo, Nanaka – (2000-11-29)29 November 2000 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) Toyota Boshoku Sunshine Rabbits SG 27 Hayashi, Saki – (1995-03-16)16 March 1995 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) JX-Eneos Sunflowers PF 30 Mawuli, Evelyn – (1995-06-02)2 June 1995 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) Toyota Antelopes PG 32 Miyazaki, Saori – (1995-08-27)27 August 1995 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) JX-Eneos Sunflowers PF 52 Miyazawa, Yuki – (1993-06-02)2 June 1993 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Fujitsu Red Wave SF 88 Akaho, Himawari – (1998-08-28)28 August 1998 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) Denso Iris PF 99 Okoye, Monica – (1999-02-07)7 February 1999 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) Fujitsu Red Wave	Head coach Tom Hovasse Assistant coach(es) Toru Ontsuka Legend Club – describes last club before the tournament Age – describes age on 26 July 2021

Group play

27 July 2021 (2021-07-27) 10:00 v

Boxscore

Japan	74–70	France
Scoring by quarter: 13–17, 21–19, 18–13, 22–21
Pts: Hayashi 12 Rebs: Akaho 9 Asts: Machida 11		Pts: Gruda 18 Rebs: Gruda 9 Asts: Johannès 4

Saitama Super Arena, Saitama Referees: Maripier Malo (CAN), James Boyer (AUS), Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ)

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30 July 2021 (2021-07-30) 13:40 v

Boxscore

United States	86–69	Japan
Scoring by quarter: 28–30, 21–10, 16–13, 21–16
Pts: Wilson 20 Rebs: Stewart 13 Asts: Bird, Stewart 6		Pts: Takada 15 Rebs: Akaho 8 Asts: Machida 11

Saitama Super Arena, Saitama Referees: Yener Yılmaz (TUR), Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ), Gizella Györgyi (NOR)

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2 August 2021 (2021-08-02) 10:00 v

Boxscore

Nigeria	83–102	Japan
Scoring by quarter: 22–30, 16–21, 19–33, 26–18
Pts: Macaulay 18 Rebs: Chidom, Elonu 7 Asts: Nyingifa 8		Pts: Hayashi 23 Rebs: Akaho 7 Asts: Machida 15

Saitama Super Arena, Saitama Referees: Juan Fernández (ARG), Andreia Silva (BRA), Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ)

Quarterfinal

4 August 2021 (2021-08-04) 17:20 v

Boxscore

Japan	86–85	Belgium
Scoring by quarter: 19–16, 22–26, 20–26, 25–17
Pts: Miyazawa 21 Rebs: Akaho 7 Asts: Machida 14		Pts: Meesseman 25 Rebs: Meesseman 11 Asts: Allemand 8

Saitama Super Arena, Saitama Referees: Yu Jung (TPE), Amy Bonner (USA), James Boyer (AUS)

Semifinal

6 August 2021 (2021-08-06) 20:00 v

Boxscore

Japan	87–71	France
Scoring by quarter: 14–22, 27–12, 27–16, 19–21
Pts: Akaho 17 Rebs: Akaho, Miyazawa 7 Asts: Machida 18		Pts: Gruda 18 Rebs: Williams 8 Asts: Williams 7

Saitama Super Arena, Saitama Referees: Maripier Malo (CAN), Luis Castillo (ESP), Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ)

Final

8 August 2021 (2021-08-08) 11:30 v

Boxscore

United States	90–75	Japan
Scoring by quarter: 23–14, 27–25, 25–17, 15–19
Pts: Griner 30 Rebs: Stewart 14 Asts: Taurasi 8		Pts: Takada 17 Rebs: Okoye 8 Asts: Machida 6

Saitama Super Arena, Saitama Referees: Manuel Mazzoni (ITA), Andreia Silva (BRA), Maripier Malo (CAN)

3×3 basketball

Summary

Team	Event	Group stage								Quarter-finals	Semi-finals	GM / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Japan men's 3×3	Men's 3×3 tournament	Poland L 19–20	Belgium W 18–16	Netherlands L 20–21	Latvia L 18–21	Serbia L 11–21	ROC L 16–19	China W 21–16	6	Latvia L 18–21	Did not advance		6
Japan women's 3×3	Women's 3×3 tournament	ROC L18–21	Romania W 20–8	Mongolia W 19–10	France W 19–15	China L 12–15	Italy W 22–10	United States W 20–18	4	France L 14–16	Did not advance		5

Men's tournament

Main article: Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's 3x3 tournament

Japan men's basketball 3x3 team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation.

Team roster

The players were announced on 3 July 2021.

• Ira Brown
• Tomoya Ochiai
• Keisei Tominaga
• Ryuto Yasuoka

Group play

24 July 2021 (2021-07-24) 19:05 v

Report

Template:3x3-rt	19–20 (OT)	Poland
Pts: Brown, Tominaga 7		Pts: Pawłowski, Zamojski 7

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo Referees: Vlad Ghizdareanu (ROU), Jasmina Juras (SRB)

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24 July 2021 (2021-07-24) 22:25 v

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Template:3x3-rt	16–18 (OT)	Japan
Pts: Bogaerts 5		Pts: Yasuoka 7

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo Referees: Vlad Ghizdareanu (ROU), Su Yu-yen (TPE)

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25 July 2021 (2021-07-25) 19:05 v

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Template:3x3-rt	20–21	Netherlands
Pts: Tominaga 10		Pts: Bekkering, Slagter 6

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo Referees: Marek Maliszewski (POL), Vanessa Devlin (AUS)

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25 July 2021 (2021-07-25) 22:25 v

Report

Template:3x3-rt	21–18	Japan
Pts: Lasmanis 7		Pts: Tominaga 9

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo Referees: Edmond Ho (HKG), Marek Maliszewski (POL)

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26 July 2021 (2021-07-26) 12:00 v

Report

Template:3x3-rt	21–11	Japan
Pts: Domović Bulut 7		Pts: Yasuoka 8

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo Referees: Edmond Ho (HKG), Glenn Tuitt (USA)

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26 July 2021 (2021-07-26) 15:00 v

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Template:3x3-rt	16–19	ROC
Pts: Brown 7		Pts: Pisklov 7

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo Referees: Glenn Tuitt (USA), Cecília Tóth (HUN)

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27 July 2021 (2021-07-27) 15:05 v

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Template:3x3-rt	16–21	Japan
Pts: Gao 8		Pts: Tominaga, Yasuoka 8

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo Referees: Markos Michaelides (SUI), Jasmina Juras (SRB)

Quarter-finals

27 July 2021 (2021-07-27) 22:20 v

Report

Template:3x3-rt	21–18	Japan
Pts: Krūmiņš 9		Pts: Tominaga 8

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo Referees: Jasmina Juras (SRB), Marek Maliszewski (POL)

Women's tournament

Main article: Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 3x3 tournament

Japan women's national 3x3 team qualified for the Olympics by securing a top three finish at the 2021 Olympic Qualifying Tournament.

Team roster

The players were announced on 3 July 2021.

• Stephanie Mawuli
• Risa Nishioka
• Mio Shinozaki
• Mai Yamamoto

Group play

24 July 2021 (2021-07-24) 10:15 v

Report

Template:3x3w-rt	21–18	Japan
Pts: O. Frolkina 7		Pts: Shinozaki 8

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo Referees: Edmond Ho (HKG), Cecília Tóth (HUN)

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24 July 2021 (2021-07-24) 14:25 v

Report

Template:3x3w-rt	8–20	Japan
Pts: Ursu-Kim 3		Pts: Mawuli 9

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo Referees: Sara El-Sharnouby (EGY), Markos Michaelides (SUI)

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25 July 2021 (2021-07-25) 10:15 v

Report

Template:3x3w-rt	19–10	Mongolia
Pts: Mawuli, Yamamoto 6		Pts: Chimeddolgor, Solongo 3

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo Referees: Shi Qirong (CHN), Markos Michaelides (SUI)

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25 July 2021 (2021-07-25) 17:55 v

Report

Template:3x3w-rt	19–15	France
Pts: three players 5		Pts: Paget 6

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo Referees: Evgeny Ostrovskiy (RUS), Vanessa Devlin (AUS)

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26 July 2021 (2021-07-26) 10:15 v

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Template:3x3w-rt	12–15	China
Pts: Mawuli 5		Pts: Wang L. 5

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo Referees: Marek Maliszewski (POL), Vanessa Devlin (AUS)

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26 July 2021 (2021-07-26) 14:25 v

Report

Template:3x3w-rt	10–22	Japan
Pts: Consolini 4		Pts: Mawuli 8

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo Referees: Cecília Tóth (HUN), Su Yu-yen (TPE)

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27 July 2021 (2021-07-27) 13:30 v

Report

Template:3x3w-rt	18–20	Japan
Pts: Dolson 7		Pts: Yamamoto 8

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo Referees: Evgeny Ostrovskiy (RUS), Shi Qirong (CHN)

Quarterfinal

27 July 2021 (2021-07-27) 21:50 v

Report

Template:3x3w-rt	14–16	France
Pts: Shinozaki 7		Pts: Paget 5

Aomi Urban Sports Park, Tokyo Referees: Evgeny Ostrovskiy (RUS), Cecília Tóth (HUN)

Boxing

Main articles: Boxing at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Boxing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Japan entered six boxers (four men and two women) into the Olympic tournament. Sewon Okazawa (men's welterweight), 2018 world bronze medalist Tsukimi Namiki (women's flyweight), and Sena Irie (women's featherweight) secured the spots on the host nation's squad in their respective weight divisions, either by advancing to the semifinal match or by scoring a box-off triumph, at the 2020 Asia & Oceania Qualification Tournament in Amman, Jordan. Three more boxers were officially selected by the Japanese Olympic Committee and the Japanese Boxing Federation to take up the host nation places for the Games, including Rio 2016 Olympian Daisuke Narimatsu in the men's lightweight division.

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ryomei Tanaka	Men's flyweight	Finol (VEN) W 5–0	Hu Jg (CHN) W 3–1	Martinez (COL) W 4–1	Paalam (PHI) L 0–5	Did not advance
Daisuke Narimatsu	Men's lightweight	Pezo (PER) W 5–0	Safiullin (KAZ) L WO	Did not advance
Sewon Okazawa	Men's welterweight	Yadav (IND) W 5–0	Iglesias (CUB) L 2–3	Did not advance
Yuito Moriwaki	Men's middleweight	Mousavi (IRI) W 3–2	Khyzhniak (UKR) L 0–5	Did not advance
Tsukimi Namiki	Women's flyweight	Nanziri (UGA) W 5–0	Sousa (BRA) W 5–0	Valencia (COL) W 5–0	Krasteva (BUL) L 0–5	Did not advance
Sena Irie	Women's featherweight	Solorzano (ESA) W 5–0	Hlimi (TUN) W 5–0	Nechita (ROU) W 3–2	Artingstall (GBR) W 3–2	Petecio (PHI) W 5–0

Canoeing

Main articles: Canoeing at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Canoeing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Slalom

Being the host nation, Japan has been awarded one boat each in all four classes. On October 20, 2019, the slalom canoeists were officially selected to the host nation's roster at the conclusion of the NHK Slalom International Cup, with Rio 2016 bronze medalist Takuya Haneda remarkably going to his fourth straight Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Preliminary						Semifinals		Final
		Run 1	Rank	Run 2	Rank	Best	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Takuya Haneda	Men's C-1	106.57	11	105.15	11	105.15	13 Q	107.82	10 Q	109.30	10
Kazuya Adachi	Men's K-1	97.72	14	92.09	6	92.09	6 Q	101.60	16	Did not advance
Ayano Sato	Women's C-1	161.77	21	151.03	19	151.03	20	Did not advance
Aki Yazawa	Women's K-1	129.87	21	127.91	21	127.91	22 Q	124.73	19	Did not advance

Sprint

Being the host nation, Japan has been awarded a minimum of three boats, with one each in the men's C-1 1000 m, women's C-1 200 m, and women's K-1 500 m. The men's K-4 500 m boat was added to the team roster with a top-ten finish at the 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged, Hungary and the women's K-1 200 m with the fastest finish vying for qualification at the 2021 Asian Championships in Pattaya, Thailand. With the cancellation of the 2021 Pan American Championships and the lack of eligible competitors available from the Americas in the canoe sprint regatta, the women's C-2 500 m crew accepted a spare berth from the International Canoe Federation for the Japanese team.

Athlete	Event	Heats		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Takanori Tōme	Men's C-1 1000 m	4:37.208	7 QF	4:38.546	6	Did not advance
Hiroki Fujishima Yūsuke Miyata Momotaro Matsushita Keiji Mizumoto	Men's K-4 500 m	1:32.295	6 QF	1:28.211	7	Did not advance
Teruko Kiriake Manaka Kubota	Women's C-2 500 m	2:16.791	7 QF	2:08.849	5 FB	Bye		2:06.196	14
Yuka Ono	Women's K-1 200 m	45.251	7 QF	45.610	7	Did not advance

Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal)

Cycling

Main articles: Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Road

Japan entered a squad of four riders (two per gender) to compete in their respective Olympic road races. Two of them filled out the places reserved for the host nation, while the remaining male and female rider earned a slot each by finishing in the top 50 (for men) and top 22 (for women) in the UCI World Ranking.

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Yukiya Arashiro	Men's road race	6:15:38	35
Nariyuki Masuda		6:25:16	84
Hiromi Kaneko	Women's road race	4:01:08	43
Eri Yonamine	Women's road race	3:55:13	21
	Women's time trial	34:34.97	22

Track

Following the completion of the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Japanese riders accumulated spots for both men and women in the sprint, keirin, and omnium, as well as the women's madison, based on their country's results in the final UCI Olympic rankings.

Topping the podium in the women's omnium at the 2020 Worlds, Yumi Kajihara became the first Japanese rider to guarantee a spot on the host nation's track cycling team for the Games. Five more members on the squad were named on June 4, 2020, with sprint riders Yudai Nitta (London 2012) and Yuta Wakimoto (Rio 2016) booking their spots for the second Olympics.

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round 1	Repechage 1	Round 2	Repechage 2	Round 3	Repechage 3	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Time Speed (km/h)	Rank	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Rank
Yudai Nitta	Men's sprint	9.728 74.013	26	Did not advance
Yuta Wakimoto		9.518 75.646	9 Q	Quintero (COL) W 9.997 72.022	Bye	Kenny (GBR) L	Bötticher (GER) W 10.323 69.747	Paul (TTO) L	Kenny (GBR)  Awang (MAS) L	Did not advance
Yuka Kobayashi	Women's sprint	10.711 67.221	17 Q	Marchant (GBR) L	Krupeckaitė (LTU)  Marozaitė (LTU) W 11.335 63.520	Gros (FRA) L	Voynova (ROC) L	Did not advance

Keirin

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Repechage	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Rank	Rank	Rank	Rank	Rank
Yudai Nitta	Men's keirin	1 QF	Bye	6	Did not advance
Yuta Wakimoto		1 QF	Bye	1 SF	5 FB	7
Yuka Kobayashi	Women's keirin	2 QF	Bye	6	Did not advance

Omnium

Athlete	Event	Scratch race		Tempo race		Elimination race		Points race		Total points	Rank
		Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points
Eiya Hashimoto	Men's omnium	8	26	16	10	12	18	15	0	54	15
Yumi Kajihara	Women's omnium	2	38	5	32	2	38	11	2	110

Madison

Athlete	Event	Points	Laps	Rank
Yumi Kajihara Kisato Nakamura	Women's madison	0	–40	13

Mountain biking

As the host nation, Japanese mountain bikers have already received a quota place each per gender at their disposal for the Games. The mountain biking team was officially named to the host nation's roster on June 5, 2020, with Kohei Yamamoto booking his fourth consecutive trip to the Games on the men's side.

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Kohei Yamamoto	Men's cross-country	1:32:35	29
Miho Imai	Women's cross-country	LAP (3 laps)	37

BMX

As the host nation, Japan has already received four quota places each per gender per event at their disposal for the Games.

Race

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Result	Rank
Yoshitaku Nagasako	Men's race	12	5	Did not advance
Sae Hatakeyama	Women's race	22	6	Did not advance

Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Seeding		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Rim Nakamura	Men's freestyle	87.67	2	85.10	5
Minato Oike	Women's freestyle	61.45	8	75.40	7

Diving

Main articles: Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Japan, as the host nation, is automatically entitled to places in all synchronized diving events, but athletes for individual events must qualify through their own performances at 2019 FINA World Championships, the 2019 Asian Cup, and the 2020 FINA World Cup series.

Five-time Olympian Ken Terauchi and his Rio 2016 partner Sho Sakai became the first Japanese divers to be selected to the squad after finishing seventh in the men's synchronized springboard at the 2019 FINA World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea.

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Semifinal		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Ken Terauchi	3 m springboard	430.20	10 Q	424.50	7 Q	359.70	12
Reo Nishida	10 m platform	314.30	25	Did not advance
Rikuto Tamai		374.25	16 Q	413.65	8 Q	431.95	7
Sho Sakai Ken Terauchi	3 m synchronized springboard	N/A				393.93	5
Hiroki Ito Kazuki Murakami	10 m synchronized platform	N/A				377.10	8

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Semifinal		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Haruka Enomoto	3 m springboard	277.85	17 Q	255.40	17	Did not advance
Sayaka Mikami		317.10	5 Q	273.70	16	Did not advance
Matsuri Arai	10 m platform	268.80	22	Did not advance
Haruka Enomoto Hazuki Miyamoto	3 m synchronized springboard	N/A				269.40	5
Matsuri Arai Minami Itahashi	10 m synchronized platform	N/A				291.42	6

Equestrian

Main articles: Equestrian at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Equestrian at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Japan, as the host nation, automatically received a team of three riders in each of the three sporting disciplines: dressage, eventing, and jumping.

Dressage

Masanao Takahashi and Rubicon have been named the traveling alternates.

Athlete	Horse	Event	Grand Prix		Grand Prix Special		Grand Prix Freestyle		Overall
			Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Technical	Artistic	Score	Rank
Shingo Hayashi	Scolari	Individual	65.714	48	N/A		Did not advance
Hiroyuki Kitahara	Huracan		66.304	45			Did not advance
Kazuki Sado	Ludwig der Sonnenkönig		62.531	56			Did not advance
Shingo Hayashi Hiroyuki Kitahara Kazuki Sado	See above	Team	6264.5	14	Did not advance		N/A		Did not advance

Qualification Legend: Q = Qualified for the final; q = Qualified for the final as a lucky loser

Eventing

Ryuzo Kitajima and Feroza Nieuwmoed have been named the reserves.

Athlete	Horse	Event	Dressage		Cross-country			Jumping						Total
								Qualifier			Final
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Yoshiaki Oiwa	Calle	Individual	31.50	21	Eliminated			Did not advance
Toshiyuki Tanaka	Talma d'Allou		32.70	29	30.80	63.50	35	12.00	75.50	34	Did not advance
Kazuma Tomoto	Vinci de la Vigne		26.10	7	1.60	27.50	5	4.00	31.50	7	0.40	31.90	4	31.90	4
Yoshiaki Oiwa Toshiyuki Tanaka Kazuma Tomoto Ryuzo Kitajima (s)	Calle Talma d'Allou Vinci de la Vigne Feroza Nieuwmoed	Team	90.10	4	232.40	322.50	12	16.00+20.00	358.50	11	N/A			358.50	11

• (s) – substituted before jumping – 20 replacement penalties

Jumping

Mike Kawai and As de Mai have been named the traveling alternates.

Athlete	Horse	Event	Qualification		Final			Jump-off
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Time	Rank	Penalties	Time	Rank
Daisuke Fukushima	Canyon	Individual	0	=1 Q	0	87.57	=1 Q	0	43.76	6
Koki Saito	Chilensky		0	=1 Q	5	89.82	13	Did not advance
Eiken Sato	Saphyr des Lacs		1	=26 Q	16	84.67	25	Did not advance
Daisuke Fukushima Koki Saito Eiken Sato	See above	Team	Eliminated		Did not advance

Fencing

Main articles: Fencing at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Fencing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Japanese fencers qualified a full squad in the women's team foil for the Games as the highest-ranked nation from Asia and Oceania outside the world's top four in the FIE Olympic Team Rankings. Rookies Masaru Yamada (men's épée), Takahiro Shikine (men's foil), Kento Yoshida (men's sabre), and Misaki Emura (women's sabre), with Nozomi Satō (women's épée) going to her third consecutive Games, secured additional places on the host nation's roster as one of the two highest-ranked fencers each vying for qualification from Asia and Oceania in the FIE Adjusted Official Rankings.

Eight more fencers were officially named to the host nation's roster on April 25, 2021, including Rio 2016 Olympians Kazuyasu Minobe (men's épée) and Chika Aoki (women's sabre) and American-born Kaito Streets (men's sabre).

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Koki Kano	Épée	Bye	E Garozzo (ITA) W 15–12	Bida (ROC) L 12–15	Did not advance
Kazuyasu Minobe		Bye	Jurka (CZE) W 15–14	Park S-y (KOR) L 6–15	Did not advance
Masaru Yamada		Bye	Petrov (KGZ) W 15–13	Kurbanov (KAZ) W 15–8	Santarelli (ITA) L 13–15	Did not advance
Koki Kano Kazuyasu Minobe Satoru Uyama Masaru Yamada	Team épée	N/A		United States (USA) W 45–39	France (FRA) W 45–44	South Korea (KOR) W 45–38	ROC W 45–36
Kyosuke Matsuyama	Foil	Bye	Pauty (FRA) W 15–7	D Garozzo (ITA) L 14–15	Did not advance
Toshiya Saito		Bye	Toldo (BRA) W 15–10	Lefort (FRA) L 4–15	Did not advance
Takahiro Shikine		Bye	Samandi (TUN) W 15–4	Choi (HKG) W 15–6	Abouelkassem (EGY) W 15–13	D Garozzo (ITA) L 9–15	Choupenitch (CZE) L 8–15	4
Kyosuke Matsuyama Yudai Nagano Toshiya Saito Takahiro Shikine	Team foil	N/A		Bye	Italy (ITA) W 45–43	France (FRA) L 42–45	United States (USA) L 31–45	4
Tomohiro Shimamura	Sabre	Mackiewicz (USA) L 13–15	Did not advance
Kaito Streets		Bounabi (ALG) W 15–9	Dershwitz (USA) L 9–15	Did not advance
Kento Yoshida		Quintero (VEN) L 13–15	Did not advance
Tomohiro Shimamura Kaito Streets Kenta Tokunan Kento Yoshida	Team sabre	N/A		Egypt (EGY) L 42–45	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Nozomi Satō	Épée	Bye	Kang Y-m (KOR) W 15–14	Beljajeva (EST) L 10–15	Did not advance
Rio Azuma	Foil	Bye	Jeon H-s (KOR) L 10–11	Did not advance
Sera Azuma		Bye	Ryan (CAN) L 11–12	Did not advance
Yuka Ueno		Bye	Mohamed (EGY) W 15–5	Ross (USA) W 15–9	Kiefer (USA) L 11–15	Did not advance
Rio Azuma Sera Azuma Sumire Tsuji Yuka Ueno	Team foil	N/A			United States (USA) L 36–45	Classification semifinal  Egypt (EGY) W 45–27	Fifth place match  Canada (CAN) L 31–45	6
Chika Aoki	Sabre	Dayibekova (UZB) L 9–15	Did not advance
Misaki Emura		Bye	Gkountoura (GRE) W 15–8	Brunet (FRA) L 12–15	Did not advance
Norika Tamura		Bye	Qian Jr (CHN) L 8–15	Did not advance
Chika Aoki Misaki Emura Shihomi Fukushima Norika Tamura	Team sabre	N/A		Tunisia (TUN) W 45–29	ROC L 34–45	Classification semifinal  Hungary (HUN) W 45–42	Fifth place match  United States (USA) W 45–43	5

Field hockey

Main article: Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Summary

Key:

• FT – After full time.
• P – Match decided by penalty-shootout.

Team	Event	Group stage						Quarter-finals	Semi-finals	GM / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Japan men's	Men's tournament	Australia L 3–5	Argentina L 1–2	New Zealand D 2–2	Spain L 1–4	India L 3–5	6	did not advance			11
Japan women's	Women's tournament	China L 3–4	New Zealand L 1–2	Australia L 0–1	Argentina L 1–2	Spain L 1–4	6	did not advance			11

Men's tournament

Main article: Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

As the host nation, Japan men's field hockey team qualified for the Olympics by virtue of obtaining a world ranking equal to or better than thirtieth place by the end of 2018, or not finish lower than sixth at the 2018 Asian Games.

Team roster

Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

Group play

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Women's tournament

Main article: Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

As the host nation, Japan women's field hockey team qualified for the Olympics by virtue of obtaining a world ranking equal to or better than thirtieth place by the end of 2018, or not finish lower than sixth at the 2018 Asian Games.

Team roster

Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's team squads

Group play

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Football (soccer)

Main article: Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Summary

Key:

• A.E.T – After extra time.
• P – Match decided by penalty-shootout.

Team	Event	Group stage				Quarter-finals	Semi-finals	Bronze medal match
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Japan men's	Men's tournament	South Africa W 1–0	Mexico W 2–1	France W 4–0	1 Q	New Zealand D 0–0 (4–2)	Spain L 0–1	Mexico L 1–3	4
Japan women's	Women's tournament	Canada D 1–1	Great Britain L 0–1	Chile W 1–0	3 Q	Sweden L 1–3	Did not advance		8

Men's tournament

Main article: Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Japan men's football team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation.

Team roster

Japan's final squad was announced on 22 June 2021.

Head coach: Hajime Moriyasu

0#0	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Keisuke Osako	(1999-07-28)28 July 1999 (aged 21)	Sanfrecce Hiroshima
2	2DF	Hiroki Sakai*	(1990-04-12)12 April 1990 (aged 31)	Urawa Red Diamonds
3	2DF	Yuta Nakayama	(1997-02-16)16 February 1997 (aged 24)	PEC Zwolle
4	2DF	Ko Itakura	(1997-01-27)27 January 1997 (aged 24)	Groningen
5	2DF	Maya Yoshida*(captain)	(1988-08-24)24 August 1988 (aged 32)	Sampdoria
6	3MF	Wataru Endo*	(1993-02-09)9 February 1993 (aged 28)	VfB Stuttgart
7	4FW	Takefusa Kubo	(2001-06-04)4 June 2001 (aged 20)	Real Madrid
8	3MF	Koji Miyoshi	(1997-03-26)26 March 1997 (aged 24)	Antwerp
9	4FW	Daizen Maeda	(1997-10-20)20 October 1997 (aged 23)	Yokohama F. Marinos
10	3MF	Ritsu Dōan	(1998-06-16)16 June 1998 (aged 23)	PSV
11	4FW	Kaoru Mitoma	(1997-05-20)20 May 1997 (aged 24)	Kawasaki Frontale
12	1GK	Kosei Tani	(2000-11-22)22 November 2000 (aged 20)	Shonan Bellmare
13	3MF	Reo Hatate	(1997-11-21)21 November 1997 (aged 23)	Kawasaki Frontale
14	2DF	Takehiro Tomiyasu	(1998-11-05)5 November 1998 (aged 22)	Bologna
15	2DF	Daiki Hashioka	(1999-05-17)17 May 1999 (aged 22)	Sint-Truiden
16	4FW	Yuki Soma	(1997-02-25)25 February 1997 (aged 24)	Nagoya Grampus
17	3MF	Ao Tanaka	(1998-09-10)10 September 1998 (aged 22)	Kawasaki Frontale
18	4FW	Ayase Ueda	(1998-08-28)28 August 1998 (aged 22)	Kashima Antlers
19	4FW	Daichi Hayashi	(1997-05-23)23 May 1997 (aged 24)	Sagan Tosu
20	2DF	Koki Machida	(1997-08-25)25 August 1997 (aged 23)	Kashima Antlers
21	2DF	Ayumu Seko	(2000-06-07)7 June 2000 (aged 21)	Cerezo Osaka
22	1GK	Zion Suzuki	(2002-08-21)21 August 2002 (aged 18)	Urawa Red Diamonds

|}* Overage player

Group play

Japan v South Africa

22 July 2021 (2021-07-22) 20:00

Japan	1–0	South Africa
Kubo  71'	Report (TOCOG) Report (FIFA)

Tokyo Stadium, Chōfu Referee: Jesús Valenzuela (Venezuela)

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Japan v Mexico

25 July 2021 (2021-07-25) 20:00

Japan	2–1	Mexico
Kubo  6' Dōan  11' (pen.)	Report (TOCOG) Report (FIFA)	Alvarado  85'

Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama Referee: Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)

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France v Japan

28 July 2021 (2021-07-28) 20:30

France	0–4	Japan
	Report (TOCOG) Report (FIFA)	Kubo  27' Sakai  34' Miyoshi  70' Maeda  90+1'

International Stadium Yokohama, Yokohama Referee: Iván Barton (El Salvador)

Quarterfinal

Japan v New Zealand

31 July 2021 (2021-07-31) 18:00

Japan	0–0 (a.e.t.)	New Zealand
	Report (TOCOG) Report (FIFA)
	Penalties
*Ueda Itakura Nakayama Yoshida	4–2	* Wood Cacace Lewis McCowatt

Kashima Stadium, Kashima Referee: Ismail Elfath (United States)

Semifinal

Japan v Spain

3 August 2021 (2021-08-03) 20:00

Japan	0–1 (a.e.t.)	Spain
	Report (TOCOG) Report (FIFA)	Asensio  115'

Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama Referee: Kevin Ortega (Peru)

Bronze medal match

Mexico v Japan

6 August 2021 (2021-08-06) 18:00

Mexico	3–1	Japan
Córdova  13' (pen.) Vásquez  22' Vega  58'	Report (TOCOG) Report (FIFA)	Mitoma  78'

Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama Referee: Bamlak Tessema Weyesa (Ethiopia)

Women's tournament

Main article: Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Japan women's football team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation.

Team roster

Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's team squads

Group play

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Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament – Group E

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Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament – Group E

Quarterfinal

Sweden v Japan

30 July 2021 (2021-07-30) 19:00

Sweden	3–1	Japan
Eriksson  7' Blackstenius  53' Asllani  68' (pen.)	Report (TOCOG) Report (FIFA)	Tanaka  23'

Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama Attendance: 0 Referee: Lucila Venegas (Mexico)

Golf

Main articles: Golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Japan entered two male and two female golfers into the Olympic tournament.

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Total
		Score	Score	Score	Score	Score	Par	Rank
Hideki Matsuyama	Men's	69	64	67	69	269	−15	=4
Rikuya Hoshino		71	68	73	66	278	−6	=38
Nasa Hataoka	Women's	70	68	67	69	274	−10	=9
Mone Inami		70	65	68	65	268	−16

Gymnastics

Main articles: Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Artistic

Japan fielded a full squad of four gymnasts each in both the men's and women artistic gymnastics events, respectively. The men's team secured a berth in the team all-around by winning a bronze at the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Doha, Qatar, while the women's team claimed one of the nine spots available at the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. The women's team was named on 15 May 2021 at the conclusion of the NHK Cup. The full men's team was announced on 6 June 2021.

Men

Team

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Apparatus						Total	Rank	Apparatus						Total	Rank
		F	PH	R	V	PB	HB			F	PH	R	V	PB	HB
Daiki Hashimoto	Team	14.700	14.766	13.866	14.866	15.300	15.033 Q	88.531	1 Q	14.600	14.800	13.833	14.833	N/A	15.100	N/A
Kazuma Kaya		13.933	14.833 Q	14.366	13.200	15.100	14.033	85.465	9	N/A	14.566	14.100	N/A	15.000	14.200
Takeru Kitazono		14.666	13.916	13.333	14.700	14.900	14.433 Q	85.948	7 Q	14.600	14.200	N/A	14.166	15.000	14.500
Wataru Tanigawa		14.466	13.833	14.300	13.666	15.241	13.400	84.906	13	14.500	N/A	14.500	15.233	14.666	N/A
Total		43.832	42.515	42.532	43.232	45.641	43.499	262.251	1 Q	43.700	43.566	42.433	44.232	44.666	43.800	262.397

Individual finals

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Apparatus						Total	Rank	Apparatus						Total	Rank
		F	PH	R	V	PB	HB			F	PH	R	V	PB	HB
Daiki Hashimoto	All-around	See team results								14.833	15.166	13.533	14.700	15.300	14.933	88.465
	Horizontal bar	N/A					15.033	15.033	1 Q	N/A					15.066	15.066
Kohei Kameyama	Pommel horse	N/A	15.266	N/A				15.266	2 Q	N/A	14.600	N/A				14.600	5
Kazuma Kaya		N/A	14.833	N/A				14.833	7 Q	N/A	14.900	N/A				14.900
Takeru Kitazono	All-around	See team results								14.566	14.500	13.500	14.666	15.066	14.400	86.698	5
	Horizontal bar	N/A					14.433	14.433	6 Q	N/A					12.333	12.333	6
Kōhei Uchimura	Horizontal bar	N/A					13.866	13.866	20	Did not advance

Women

Team

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Apparatus				Total	Rank	Apparatus				Total	Rank
		V	UB	BB	F			V	UB	BB	F
Hitomi Hatakeda	Team	12.266	14.133	13.000	13.333	52.732	39	N/A	14.100	13.333	12.800	N/A
Yuna Hiraiwa		13.733	11.700	13.533	12.666	51.632	49	13.900	N/A	13.566	N/A
Mai Murakami		14.433	12.133	13.366	13.933 Q	53.965	23 Q	14.266	12.700	13.833	14.066
Aiko Sugihara		14.266	13.366	11.566	13.333	52.531	41	14.183	13.333	N/A	13.200
Total		42.432	39.632	39.999	40.599	162.662	8 Q	42.349	40.133	40.732	40.066	163.280	5

Individual finals

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Apparatus				Total	Rank	Apparatus				Total	Rank
		V	UB	BB	F			V	UB	BB	F
Urara Ashikawa	Balance beam	N/A		13.900	N/A	13.900	12 Q*	N/A		13.733	N/A	13.733	6
Mai Murakami	All-around	See team results						14.533	13.733	13.766	14.000	56.032	5
	Floor exercise	N/A			13.933	13.933	8 Q	N/A			14.166	14.166

Rhythmic

As the host nation, Japan automatically received a guaranteed place in the group all-around competition at the Games. One rhythmic gymnast was added to the roster by finishing in the top sixteen of the individual all-around at the 2019 World Championships in Baku. Chisaki Oiwa qualified an additional spot through the 2021 World Cup series. The athletes for the group all-around were announced on 2 July 2021.

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Hoop	Ball	Clubs	Ribbon	Total	Rank	Hoop	Ball	Clubs	Ribbon	Total	Rank
Chisaki Oiwa	Individual	23.100	19.600	23.600	21.250	87.550	19	Did not advance
Sumire Kita		23.150	23.900	24.550	21.200	92.800	11	Did not advance

Athletes	Event	Qualification				Final
		5 apps	3+2 apps	Total	Rank	5 apps.	3+2 apps	Total	Rank
Sakura Noshitani Sayuri Sugimoto Ayuka Suzuki Nanami Takenaka Kiko Yokota	Group	40.400	39.325	79.725	7 Q	42.750	29.750	72.500	8

Trampoline

Japan qualified one gymnast each for the men's and women's trampoline by finishing in the top eight, respectively, at the 2019 World Championships in Tokyo. Japan qualified an additional spot in both men's and women's trampoline through the 2019–2020 Trampoline World Cup series.

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Daiki Kishi	Men's	111.540	6 Q	57.815	7
Ryosuke Sakai		62.250	15	Did not advance
Hikaru Mori	Women's	63.775	13	Did not advance
Megu Uyama		103.585	5 Q	54.655	5

Handball

Main article: Handball at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Summary

Key:

• ET: After extra time
• P – Match decided by penalty-shootout.

Team	Event	Group stage						Quarter-finals	Semi-finals	GM / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Japan men's	Men's tournament	Denmark L 30–47	Sweden L 26–28	Egypt L 29–33	Bahrain L 30–32	Portugal W 31–30	6	Did not advance
Japan women's	Women's tournament	Netherlands L 21–32	Montenegro W 29–26	South Korea L 24–27	Angola L 25–28	Norway L 25–37	6	Did not advance

Men's tournament

Main article: Handball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Japan men's handball team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation.

Team roster

The squad was announced on 8 July 2021.

Head coach: Dagur Sigurðsson

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 10 LW Naoki Sugioka (1994-04-18)18 April 1994 (aged 27) 1.77 m 33 37 Toyota Auto Body 12 GK Yuta Iwashita (1991-06-21)21 June 1991 (aged 30) 1.83 m 20 1 Toyota Boshoku Kyushu 13 P Kenya Kasahara (1988-05-15)15 May 1988 (aged 33) 1.97 m 77 64 Toyota Auto Body 15 LB Adam Yuki Baig (1999-04-12)12 April 1999 (aged 22) 1.94 m 43 79 Chuo University 18 LB Kohei Narita (1989-06-15)15 June 1989 (aged 32) 1.91 m 93 136 Wakunaga Pharmaceutical 19 RB Shinnosuke Tokuda (1995-12-06)6 December 1995 (aged 25) 1.78 m 63 224 Toyoda Gosei 20 RB Jin Watanabe (1990-01-17)17 January 1990 (aged 31) 1.83 m 95 305 Toyota Auto Body 21 LW Remi Anri Doi (1989-09-28)28 September 1989 (aged 31) 1.80 m 60 145 Zeekstar Tokyo 22 GK Motoki Sakai (1995-11-10)10 November 1995 (aged 25) 1.92 m 25 3 Toyoda Gosei 25 RW Hiroki Motoki (1992-02-14)14 February 1992 (aged 29) 1.82 m 86 235 Osaki Osol 31 LB Tatsuki Yoshino (1994-07-13)13 July 1994 (aged 27) 1.83 m 46 181 Toyota Auto Body 33 CB Yuto Agarie (1993-07-06)6 July 1993 (aged 28) 1.83 m 69 238 Zeekstar Tokyo 38 CB Kotaro Mizumachi (1995-03-13)13 March 1995 (aged 26) 1.83 m 8 12 Toyoda Gosei 41 RB Rennosuke Tokuda (1998-05-15)15 May 1998 (aged 23) 1.80 m 11 20 Grupa Azoty Tarnów 43 P Shuichi Yoshida (2001-03-26)26 March 2001 (aged 20) 1.91 m 10 23 Grupa Azoty Tarnów

Group play

24 July 2021 21:30	Denmark	47–30	Japan	Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Schulze, Tönnies (GER)
	Holm, Saugstrup 9	(25–14)	Motoki 8
	1× 1×	Report	4× 1×

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26 July 2021 21:30	Japan	26–28	Sweden	Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Lah, Sok (SLO)
	Motoki 6	(14–17)	Wanne 8
	4× 1×	Report	1× 1×

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28 July 2021 14:15	Japan	29–33	Egypt	Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Schulze, Tönnies (GER)
	Tokuda 8	(11–18)	El-Ahmar 8
	7× 1×	Report	2×

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30 July 2021 11:00	Bahrain	32–30	Japan	Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Raluy, Sabroso (ESP)
	Al-Sayyad, Habib 7	(17–16)	Motoki 7
	4× 2×	Report	4×

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1 August 2021 09:00	Portugal	30–31	Japan	Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Brunner, Salah (SUI)
	four players 4	(14–16)	R. Tokuda 6
	4× 2×	Report	2× 2×

Women's tournament

Main article: Handball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Japan women's handball team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation.

Team roster

The squad was announced on 28 June 2021. On 30 July, Kaho Sunami was replaced by Mana Horikawa.

Head coach: Ulrik Kirkely

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 3 P Kaho Sunami (1993-01-05)5 January 1993 (aged 28) 1.66 m 45 74 Sony Semiconductor 4 RB Yui Sunami (1991-06-07)7 June 1991 (aged 30) 1.62 m 59 160 Hokkoku Bank 5 LB Sayo Shiota (1989-03-21)21 March 1989 (aged 32) 1.72 m 66 62 Hokkoku Bank 9 CB Aya Yokoshima (1990-07-03)3 July 1990 (aged 31) 1.62 m 55 160 Hokkoku Bank 11 P Mana Horikawa (1994-03-04)4 March 1994 (aged 27) 1.74 m 17 2 lzumi Maple Reds 12 GK Minami Itano (1993-02-02)2 February 1993 (aged 28) 1.74 m 26 1 lzumi Maple Reds 18 LW Yuki Tanabe (1989-08-25)25 August 1989 (aged 31) 1.70 m 59 196 Thüringer HC 21 RW Ayaka Ikehara (1990-09-24)24 September 1990 (aged 30) 1.58 m 43 101 Odense Håndbold 24 LB Nozomi Hara (1991-03-09)9 March 1991 (aged 30) 1.70 m 78 224 MIE violet' IRIS 25 CB Mana Ohyama (1992-12-07)7 December 1992 (aged 28) 1.65 m 45 105 Hokkoku Bank 27 LB Haruno Sasaki (1995-02-26)26 February 1995 (aged 26) 1.72 m 23 80 Hokkoku Bank 28 P Shiori Nagata (1987-10-24)24 October 1987 (aged 33) 1.71 m 109 92 Omron 30 GK Sakura Hauge (1987-01-07)7 January 1987 (aged 34) 1.74 m 49 5 ESBF Besançon 34 LW Maharu Kondo (1996-01-24)24 January 1996 (aged 25) 1.58 m 0 0 lzumi Maple Reds 40 RB Shio Fujii (1985-03-27)27 March 1985 (aged 36) 1.64 m 121 613 Osaka Lovvits 81 CB Mayuko Ishitate (1987-01-18)18 January 1987 (aged 34) 1.67 m 96 201 MIE violet' IRIS

Group play

25 July 2021 09:00	Netherlands	32–21	Japan	Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: García, Paolantoni (ARG)
	Abbingh 7	(18–10)	Fujii 5
	2×	Report	3× 1×

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27 July 2021 09:00	Japan	29–26	Montenegro	Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Alpaidze, Berezkina (RUS)
	Hara, Ikehara 6	(14–13)	Brnović 6
	8× 1× 1×	Report	3× 2×

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29 July 2021 14:15	Japan	24–27	South Korea	Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Kurtagic, Wetterwik (SWE)
	Kondo 7	(11–12)	Ryu 9
	3× 1×	Report	3×

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31 July 2021 09:00	Angola	28–25	Japan	Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: García, Paolantoni (ARG)
	three players 5	(15–13)	Hara 6
	2× 1×	Report	1× 1×

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2 August 2021 21:30	Norway	37–25	Japan	Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: El-Saied, El-Saied (EGY)
	Frafjord 6	(16–11)	Ohyama, Yokoshima 5
	3×	Report	1× 2×

Judo

Main articles: Judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

As the host nation, Japanese judoka have already received fourteen quota places (seven in each gender) at their disposal for the Games.

On November 24, 2019, Akira Sone (women's +78 kg) became the first judoka to be selected to the host nation's squad for the Games, following her triumph at the IJF Grand Slam Cup in Osaka. Twelve more judoka were officially named to the roster on February 27, 2020, with Shohei Ono looking to defend his Olympic title in the men's 73-kg division on the home soil. Meanwhile, Hifumi Abe trounced the reigning world champion Joshiro Maruyama to lock the men's 66 kg spot in a gruelling 24-minute playoff at the Kodokan Judo Institute on December 13, 2020, completing the host nation's judo roster for the rescheduled Games.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Naohisa Takato	−60 kg	N/A	Bye	Verstraeten (BEL) W 01–00	Chkhvimiani (GEO) W 10–00	Smetov (KAZ) W 01–00	Bye	Yang Y-w (TPE) W 10–00
Hifumi Abe	−66 kg	N/A	Bye	Le Blouch (FRA) W 10–00	Yondonperenlei (MGL) W 01–00	Cargnin (BRA) W 10–00	Bye	Margvelashvili (GEO) W 01–00
Shohei Ono	−73 kg	Bye	Raicu (ROU) W 10–00	Çiloğlu (TUR) W 10–00	Orujov (AZE) W 10–00	Tsend-Ochir (MGL) W 01–00	Bye	Shavdatuashvili (GEO) W 01–00
Takanori Nagase	−81 kg	Bye	Albayrak (TUR) W 10–00	Parlati (ITA) W 10–00	Ressel (GER) W 01–00	Casse (BEL) W 01–00	Bye	Mollaei (MGL) W 01–00
Shoichiro Mukai	−90 kg	Bye	Feuillet (MRI) W 10–00	Tóth (HUN) L 00–10	Did not advance
Aaron Wolf	−100 kg	N/A	Bye	Khurramov (UZB) W 10–00	Paltchik (ISR) W 01–00	Liparteliani (GEO) W 01–00	Bye	Cho G-h (KOR) W 10–00
Hisayoshi Harasawa	+100 kg	N/A	Bye	Kim M-j (KOR) W 01–00	Khammo (UKR) W 10–00	Krpálek (CZE) L 00–01	Bye	Riner (FRA) L 00–10	5

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Funa Tonaki	−48 kg	Bye	Csernoviczki (HUN) W 10–00	Pareto (ARG) W 10–00	Bilodid (UKR) W 01–00	Bye	Krasniqi (KOS) L 00–01
Uta Abe	−52 kg	Bye	Pimenta (BRA) W 10–00	Giles (GBR) W 01–00	Giuffrida (ITA) W 01–00	Bye	Buchard (FRA) W 10–00
Tsukasa Yoshida	−57 kg	Bye	Lu Tj (CHN) W 10–00	Nelson-Levy (ISR) W 01–00	Gjakova (KOS) L 00–01	Bye	Liparteliani (GEO) W 10–00
Miku Tashiro	−63 kg	Renshall (GBR) W 01–00	Ozdoba-Błach (POL) L 00–10	Did not advance
Chizuru Arai	−70 kg	Bye	Pérez (PUR) W 10–00	Scoccimarro (GER) W 10–00	Taimazova (ROC) W 10–00	Bye	Polleres (AUT) W 01–00
Shori Hamada	−78 kg	Bye	Pacut (POL) W 10–00	Babintseva (ROC) W 11–00	Wagner (GER) W 10–00	Bye	Malonga (FRA) W 10–00
Akira Sone	+78 kg	Bye	Hershko (ISR) W 11–00	Sayit (TUR) W 10–00	Kindzerska (AZE) W 10–00	Bye	Ortíz (CUB) W 10–00

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Shoichiro Mukai Shohei Ono Aaron Wolf Uta Abe Chizuru Arai Akira Sone Tsukasa Yoshida	Team	Bye	Germany (GER) W 4–2	ROC W 4–0	Bye	France (FRA) L 1–4

Karate

Main articles: Karate at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Karate at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

As the host nation, Japanese karateka have already received eight quota places (four in each gender) at their disposal for the Games. With the cancellation of the last qualifying tournaments before the April 6, 2020 cutoff because of the coronavirus pandemic, World Karate Federation officially named the Japanese karateka to take up the host nation places based on the country's selection criteria. Among the country's karateka were three-time world champion Ryo Kiyuna in the men's individual kata and multiple world medalist Ayumi Uekusa in the women's +61-kg kumite.

Kumite

Athlete	Event	Group stage					Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Naoto Sago	Men's −67 kg	El-Sawy (EGY) W 4–3	Farzaliyev (AZE) L 0–1	Assadilov (KAZ) L 0–3	Şamdan (TUR) L 1–2	4	Did not advance
Ken Nishimura	Men's −75 kg	Scott (USA) W 2–0	Horuna (UKR) L 1–2	Abdelaziz (EGY) W 8–7	Hárspataki (HUN) L 1–3	3	Did not advance
Ryutaro Araga	Men's +75 kg	Arkania (GEO) W 3–2	Yuldashev (KAZ) W 4–2	Aktaş (TUR) W 5–3	Horne (GER) W WO	1 Q	Hamedi (KSA) L 0–2	Did not advance
Miho Miyahara	Women's −55 kg	Plank (AUT) W 6–2	Sayed (EGY) L 3–5	Zhangbyrbay (KAZ) W 11–2	Terliuga (UKR) L 0–4	3	Did not advance
Mayumi Someya	Women's −61 kg	Çoban (TUR) L 4–0	Heurtault (FRA) W 6–3	Yin Xy (CHN) L 2–4	Garcés (VEN) L 5–8	4	Did not advance
Ayumi Uekusa	Women's +61 kg	Semeraro (ITA) L 3–4	Zaretska (AZE) L 1–4	Hocaoğlu (TUR) W 5–4	Berultseva (KAZ) W 5–1	3	Did not advance

Kata

Athlete	Event	Elimination round		Ranking round		Final / BM
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Opposition Result	Rank
Ryo Kiyuna	Men's kata	28.33	1 Q	28.72	1 Q	Quintero (ESP) W 28.72–27.66
Kiyou Shimizu	Women's kata	27.70	1 Q	27.86	1 Q	Sánchez (ESP) L 27.88–28.06

Modern pentathlon

Main articles: Modern pentathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Modern pentathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Japanese athletes qualified for the following spots to compete in modern pentathlon. Rio 2016 Olympians Shōhei Iwamoto and Natsumi Tomonaga confirmed places each in the men's and women's event, respectively, with the former finishing fourth and the latter second among those eligible for Olympic qualification at the 2019 Asia & Oceania Championships in Kunming, China.

Athlete	Event	Fencing (épée one touch)				Swimming (200 m freestyle)			Riding (show jumping)			Combined: shooting/running (10 m air pistol)/(3200 m)			Total points	Final rank
		RR	BR	Rank	MP points	Time	Rank	MP points	Penalties	Rank	MP points	Time	Rank	MP Points
Shōhei Iwamoto	Men's	12–23	1	30	173	2:03.75	20	303	21	20	279	11:52.87	31	588	1343	28
Rena Shimazu	Women's	14–21	0	30	184	2:10.65	9	289	48	24	252	12:34.40	17	546	1271	23
Natsumi Takamiya		14–21	1	28	185	2:11.54	11	287	EL	31	0	2:11.54	26	513	985	34

Rowing

Main articles: Rowing at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Rowing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Japan qualified two boats for each of the following rowing classes into the Olympic regatta. Rowing crews in the men's single sculls and women's lightweight double sculls confirmed Olympic places for their boats at the 2021 FISA Asia & Oceania Olympic Qualification Regatta in Tokyo.

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ryuta Arakawa	Men's single sculls	7:02.79	2 QF	Bye		7:26.04	3 SA/B	6:59.26	6 FB	6:50.91	11
Chiaki Tomita Ayami Oishi	Women's lightweight double sculls	7:22.47	3 R	7:34.45	3 SA/B	N/A		6:56.52	5 FB	6:54.94	10

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Rugby sevens

Main article: Rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Men's tournament

Main article: Rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Japan men's rugby sevens team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation.

Team roster

Rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

Group play

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9–12th place playoff

11th place match

Women's tournament

Main article: Rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Japan women's rugby sevens team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation.

Team roster

Rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's team squads

Group play

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9–12th place playoff

11th place match

Sailing

Main articles: Sailing at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Sailing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

As the host nation, Japan has been guaranteed one boat for each of the following classes at the Tokyo regatta, bringing the maximum quota of 15 sailors, in ten boats.

At the end of 2019 season, the Japanese Olympic Committee announced the first set of sailors to compete at the Enoshima regatta, including multiple world medalists Ai Kondo and Miho Yoshioka in the women's 470 class and three-time Olympian Makoto Tomizawa in men's windsurfing. The 49er, 49erFX, and Nacra 17 crews were added to the roster on February 15, 2020, with windsurfer Yuki Sunaga and Laser Radial sailor Manami Doi joining them two weeks later upon the completion of their respective class-associated Worlds.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race													Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	M*
Makoto Tomizawa	RS:X	10	21	11	16	DNF	14	17	11	11	16	11	11	EL	149	16
Kenji Nanri	Laser	27	30	33	19	25	16	24	29	31	18	N/A		EL	219	30
Kazumasa Segawa	Finn	18	16	17	12	15	16	19	12	17	5	N/A		EL	128	16
Jumpei Hokazono Keiju Okada	470	7	4	4	11	13	9	5	4	15	13	N/A		12	82	7
Ibuki Koizumi Leonard Takahashi	49er	17	11	13	11	15	11	4	12	4	8	3	16	EL	108	11

Women

Athlete	Event	Race													Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	M*
Yuki Sunaga	RS:X	17	24	11	3	5	12	11	22	10	7	14	17	EL	129	12
Manami Doi	Laser Radial	16	9	10	23	11	28	15	16	13	17	N/A		EL	130	15
Ai Kondo Miho Yoshioka	470	6	7	11	15	2	2	12	8	7	8	N/A		16	79	7
Sena Takano Anna Yamazaki	49erFX	7	16	UFD	17	16	UFD	9	19	11	4	13	15	EL	149	18

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Race													Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	M*
Shibuki Iitsuka Eri Hatayama	Nacra 17	12	18	15	12	15	16	14	6	14	19	15	13	EL	150	15

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Shooting

Main articles: Shooting at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Shooting at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

As the host nation, Japan has been guaranteed a minimum of twelve quota places with one in each of the individual events. Additionally, a shooter qualified for one event may compete in others without affecting the quotas, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by 30 April 2020.

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Kojiro Horimizu	10 m air pistol	576	15	Did not advance
Hiroyuki Ikawa	Skeet	114	27	Did not advance
Takayuki Matsumoto	10 m air rifle	621.7	37	Did not advance
	50 m rifle 3 positions	1145	37	Did not advance
Naoya Okada	10 m air rifle	625.7	20	Did not advance
	50 m rifle 3 positions	1158	31	Did not advance
Shigetaka Oyama	Trap	115	29	Did not advance
Dai Yoshioka	25 m rapid fire pistol	582	8	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Shiori Hirata	10 m air rifle	622.1	34	Did not advance
	50 m rifle 3 positions	1169	11	Did not advance
Naoko Ishihara	Skeet	114	21	Did not advance
Haruka Nakaguchi	10 m air rifle	622.2	32	Did not advance
Yukie Nakayama	Trap	115	19	Did not advance
Chizuru Sasaki	10 m air pistol	556	50	Did not advance
	25 m pistol	567	40	Did not advance
Satoko Yamada	10 m air pistol	570	23	Did not advance
	25 m pistol	563	43	Did not advance

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semifinal		Final / BM
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Takayuki Matsumoto Shiori Hirata	10 m air rifle team	620.3	26	Did not advance
Naoya Okada Haruka Nakaguchi		625.6	13	Did not advance
Kojiro Horimizu Satoko Yamada	10 m air pistol team	559	20	Did not advance
Shigetaka Oyama Yukie Nakayama	Trap team	145	5	Did not advance

Skateboarding

Main articles: Skateboarding at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Skateboarding at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Japan qualified ten skateboarder into the olympic competition. Six skateboarder (two men and three women) qualified after being ranked in top 16 based on the Olympic World Skateboarding Rankings List of 30 June 2021, and four skateboarder in men's and women's park events after winning the gold, silver and bronze medal at 2021 Street Skateboarding World Championships in Rome, Italy.

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Ayumu Hirano	Park	62.03	14	Did not advance
Yukito Aoki	Street	18.60	17	Did not advance
Yuto Horigome		33.75	6 Q	37.18
Sora Shirai		31.52	9	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Kokona Hiraki	Park	52.46	3 Q	59.04
Misugu Okamoto		58.51	1 Q	53.58	4
Sakura Yosozumi		45.98	4 Q	60.09
Funa Nakayama	Street	15.77	1 Q	14.49
Aori Nishimura		12.82	5 Q	6.92	8
Momiji Nishiya		15.40	2 Q	15.26

Softball

Main article: Softball at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Japan women's national softball team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation.

Summary

Legend: W – Win L – Lose D – Draw

Team	Event	Round robin						GM / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Rank
Japan women's	Women's tournament	Australia W 8–1	Mexico W 3–2	Italy W 5–0	Canada W 1–0	United States L 1–2	2 Q	United States W 2–0

Team roster

Softball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Rosters

Group play

21 July 08:55 (JST)
Fukushima Azuma Baseball Stadium 31 °C (88 °F)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Australia	1	0	0	0	0	X	X	1	2	2
Japan (5)	1	0	2	3	2	X	X	8	6	0
WP: Yukiko Ueno (1–0)   LP: Kaia Parnaby (0–1) Home runs: AUS: None JPN: Minori Naito (1), Yamato Fujita (1), Yu Yamamoto (1) Boxscore

22 July 12:00 (JST)
Fukushima Azuma Baseball Stadium 28 °C (82 °F)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	R	H	E
Mexico	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	6	0
Japan (8)	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	5	0
WP: Nozomi Goto (1–0)   LP: Danielle O'Toole (0–1) Home runs: MEX: Anissa Urtez (1) JPN: Yamato Fujita (2) Boxscore

24 July 20:00 (JST)
Yokohama Stadium 28 °C (82 °F)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Japan	0	0	0	2	0	3	0	5	6	0
Italy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
WP: Nozomi Goto (2–0)   LP: Alexia Lacatena (0–1) Home runs: JPN: Yu Yamamoto (2), Yamato Fujita (3) ITA: None Boxscore

25 July 14:30 (JST)
Yokohama Stadium 33 °C (91 °F)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	R	H	E
Canada	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1
Japan (8)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	6	0
WP: Nozomi Goto (3–0)   LP: Danielle Lawrie (0–1) Boxscore

26 July 10:00 (JST)
Yokohama Stadium 29 °C (84 °F)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Japan	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	0
United States	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	4	1
WP: Monica Abbott (3–0)   LP: Yamato Fujita (0–1) Home runs: JPN: None USA: Kelsey Stewart (1) Boxscore

Gold medal match

27 July 20:00 (JST)
Yokohama Stadium

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Japan	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	8	0
United States	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
WP: Yukiko Ueno (2–0)   LP: Ally Carda (0–1) Boxscore

Sport climbing

Main articles: Sport climbing at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Sport climbing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Japan, as the host nation, received a guaranteed place each in the gender-based combined events, unless a maximum of two men and two women were selected to the team based on competition results.

Tomoa Narasaki and Akiyo Noguchi booked their spots on the host nation's team, with a successful podium finish each (gold for Narasaki and silver for Noguchi) in the men's and women's combined event at the 2019 IFSC World Championships in Hachioji. In November 2019, the International Sport Climbing Association (IFSC) and the Japan Mountaineering and Sport Climbing Association (JMSCA) confirmed Kai Harada and Miho Nonaka as Olympic-qualified sport climbers, occupying a place each reserved for the host nation in their respective events.

Athlete	Event	Qualification									Final
		Speed		Boulder		Lead			Total	Rank	Speed		Boulder		Lead			Total	Rank
		Best	Place	Result	Place	Hold	Time	Place			Best	Place	Result	Place	Hold	Time	Place
Kai Harada	Men's	7.08	15	1T2z 4 8	12	25+	–	17	3060.00	18	did not advance
Tomoa Narasaki		5.94	2	2T4z 6 7	2	26+	2:11	14	56.00	2 Q	6.02	2	1T3z 1 5	3	33+	–	6	36	4
Akiyo Noguchi	Women's	8.23	9	3T4z 5 4	3	27+	–	6	162.00	4 Q	8.42	4	0T2z 0 7	4	29+	–	4	64
Miho Nonaka		7.55	4	1T3z 2 3	8	30+	–	3	96.00	3 Q	7.76	3	0T2z 0 5	3	21	–	5	45

Surfing

Main articles: Surfing at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Surfing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Japan sent four surfers (two men and two women) to compete in their respective shortboard races at the Games. Hiroto Ohhara and Shino Matsuda secured a qualification slot each for their nation, as the highest-ranked at the 2021 ISA World Surfing Games in El Sunzal and La Bocana. Meanwhile, American-born Kanoa Igarashi finished within the top ten of those eligible for qualification in the World Surf League rankings to join Murakami and Matsuda on the host nation's roster.

Athlete	Event	Round 1		Round 2		Round 3	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Kanoa Igarashi	Men's shortboard	12.77	1 Q	Bye		Waida (INA) W 14.00–12.00	Andino (USA) W 12.60–11.00	Medina (BRA) W 17.00–16.76	Ferreira (BRA) L 6.60–15.14
Hiroto Ohhara		11.40	2 Q	Bye		Tudela (PER) W 10.00–9.63	Ferreira (BRA) L 11.90–16.30	Did not advance
Mahina Maeda	Women's shortboard	9.20	4 q	9.63	3 Q	Marks (USA) L 7.34–15.33	Did not advance
Amuro Tsuzuki		6.99	4 q	11.60	1 Q	Weston-Webb (BRA) W 10.33–9.00	Fitzgibbons (AUS) W 13.27–11.67	Moore (USA) L 7.43–8.33	Marks (USA) W 6.80–4.26

Swimming

Main articles: Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Japanese swimmers further achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)): To assure their selection to the Olympic team, swimmers must finish in the top two of each individual event under both the federation's required standard and a FINA-A qualifying cut at the Japanese Championships and Olympic Trials (April 3 to 10) in Tokyo.

By winning individual gold medals in the medley double (200 and 400) at the 2019 FINA World Championships, Daiya Seto became the first Japanese swimmer to be directly selected to the Olympic team for Tokyo 2020. Thirty-two more swimmers were named for the home-based Games at the end of the Japanese Championships and Olympic Trials, including backstroke veteran and double silver medalist Ryosuke Irie, leukemia survivor, freestyle, and butterfly sprinter Rikako Ikee, and the reigning Olympic champion in the individual medley Kosuke Hagino. For Irie, he became the third Japanese swimmer to compete in fourth consecutive Olympics, tying the record with Kosuke Kitajima and Takeshi Matsuda for the most appearances.

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kosuke Hagino	200 m individual medley	1:57.39	=5 Q	1:57.47	6 Q	1:57.49	6
Tomoru Honda	200 m butterfly	1:55.10	6 Q	1:55.31	8 Q	1:53.73
Yuki Ikari	400 m individual medley	4:12.08	11	N/A		Did not advance
Ryosuke Irie	100 m backstroke	52.99	5 Q	53.21	=9	Did not advance
	200 m backstroke	1:56.97	8 Q	1:56.69	8 Q	1:57.32	7
Takeshi Kawamoto	100 m butterfly	51.93	20	Did not advance
Katsuhiro Matsumoto	200 m freestyle	1:46.69	=17	Did not advance
Taishin Minamide	10 km open water	N/A				1:53:07.5	13
Naoki Mizunuma	100 m butterfly	51.57	=12 Q	51.46	10	Did not advance
Ryuya Mura	100 m breaststroke	59.40	11 Q	59.82	=13	Did not advance
	200 m breaststroke	2:09.00	8 Q	2:08.27	6 Q	2:08.42	7
Katsumi Nakamura	100 m freestyle	48.48	17	Did not advance
Shoma Sato	100 m breaststroke	1:00.04	23	Did not advance
	200 m breaststroke	2:09.43	11 Q	2:09.04	10	Did not advance
Daiya Seto	200 m butterfly	1:55.26	9 Q	1:55.50	11	Did not advance
	200 m individual medley	1:58.15	16 Q	1:56.86	3 Q	1:56.22	4
	400 m individual medley	4:10.52	9	N/A		Did not advance
Keita Sunama	200 m backstroke	1:57.07	9 Q	1:57.16	14	Did not advance
Katsumi Nakamura Akira Namba Kaiya Seki Shinri Shioura	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:14.44	14	N/A		Did not advance
Kosuke Hagino Katsuhiro Matsumoto Kotaro Takahashi Konosuke Yanagimoto	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:09.53	12	N/A		Did not advance
Ryosuke Irie Naoki Mizunuma Ryuya Mura Katsumi Nakamura	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:32.02	5 Q	N/A		3:29.91 AS	6

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Reona Aoki	100 m breaststroke	1:07.29	19	Did not advance
Suzuka Hasegawa	200 m butterfly	2:10.43	13 Q	2:09.42	9	Did not advance
Yumi Kida	10 km open water	N/A				2:01:40.9	13
Waka Kobori	400 m freestyle	4:05.57	11	N/A		Did not advance
	800 m freestyle	8:28.90	16	N/A		Did not advance
Anna Konishi	100 m backstroke	1:00.04	16 Q	1:00.07	13	Did not advance
Miyu Namba	400 m freestyle	4:13.49	20	N/A		Did not advance
	800 m freestyle	8:32.04	17	N/A		Did not advance
Yui Ohashi	200 m individual medley	2:10.77	10 Q	2:09.79	5 Q	2:08.52
	400 m individual medley	4:35.71	3 Q	N/A		4:32.08
Ageha Tanigawa	400 m individual medley	4:41.76	12	N/A		Did not advance
Miho Teramura	200 m individual medley	2:11.22	12 Q	2:12.14	15	Did not advance
Kanako Watanabe	100 m breaststroke	1:07.01	17	Did not advance
	200 m breaststroke	2:24.73	18	Did not advance
Chihiro Igarashi Rikako Ikee Rika Omoto Natsumi Sakai	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:36.20	9	N/A		Did not advance
Chihiro Igarashi Nagisa Ikemoto Aoi Masuda Rio Shirai	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:58.39	9	N/A		Did not advance
Chihiro Igarashi Rikako Ikee Anna Konishi Kanako Watanabe	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:57.17	6 Q	N/A		3:58.12	8

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Rikako Ikee Anna Konishi Katsuhiro Matsumoto Shoma Sato	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:44.15	9	Did not advance

Table tennis

Main articles: Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Japan entered six athletes into the table tennis competition at the Games, as the host nation was automatically entitled to use quota places each in the men's and women's teams. Moreover, an additional berth was awarded to the Japanese table tennis players competing in the inaugural mixed doubles by advancing to the semifinal stage of the 2019 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals in Zhengzhou.

The host nation's table tennis players were officially named on January 6, 2020, with Rio 2016 bronze medalist Jun Mizutani participating in his fourth straight Games.

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Tomokazu Harimoto	Singles	Bye			Lam (HKG) W 4–1	Jorgić (SLO) L 3–4	Did not advance
Koki Niwa		Bye			Wang (SVK) W 4–0	Ovtcharov (GER) L 1–4	Did not advance
Tomokazu Harimoto Jun Mizutani Koki Niwa	Team	N/A				Australia (AUS) W 3–0	Sweden (SWE) W 3–1	Germany (GER) L 2–3	South Korea (KOR) W 3–1

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Kasumi Ishikawa	Singles	Bye			Paranang (THA) W 4–2	Polcanova (AUT) W 4–0	Yu My (SGP) L 1–4	Did not advance
Mima Ito		Bye			Yu (POR) W 4–1	Sawettabut (THA) W 4–0	Jeon J-h (KOR) W 4–0	Sun Ys (CHN) L 0–4	Yu My (SGP) W 4–1
Miu Hirano Kasumi Ishikawa Mima Ito	Team	N/A				Hungary (HUN) W 3–0	Chinese Taipei (TPE) W 3–0	Hong Kong (HKG) W 3–0	China (CHN) L 0–3

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Jun Mizutani Mima Ito	Doubles	Fegerl / Polcanova (AUT) W 4–1	Franziska / Solja (GER) W 4–3	Lin Y-j / Cheng I-c (TPE) W 4–1	Xu X / Liu Sw (CHN) W 4–3

Taekwondo

Main articles: Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

As the host nation, Japanese taekwondo practitioners have already received four quota places, two men and two women, at their disposal for the Games. On 9 February 2020, the Japanese Olympic Committee nominated the four athletes to take up the host nation places, with Mayu Hamada (women's 57 kg) leading them to her third consecutive Games.

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Sergio Suzuki	Men's −58 kg	N/A	Demse (ETH) L 2–22	Did not advance
Ricardo Suzuki	Men's −68 kg	Bye	Husić (BIH) L 2–22	Did not advance
Miyu Yamada	Women's −49 kg	Bye	Su P-y (TPE) W 10–9	Sim J-y (KOR) W 16–7	Wongpattanakit (THA) L 12–34 PTG	N/A	Bye	Bogdanović (SRB) L 6–20	5
Mayu Hamada	Women's −57 kg	Bye	Ben Yessouf (NIG) L 6–11	Did not advance

Tennis

Main articles: Tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Taro Daniel	Singles	Sonego (ITA) L 6–4, 6–7(6–8), 6–7(3–7)	Did not advance
Kei Nishikori		Rublev (ROC) W 6–3, 6–4	Giron (USA) W 7–6, 3–6, 6–1	Ivashka (BLR) W 7–6(9–7), 6–0	Djokovic (SRB) L 2–6, 0–6	Did not advance
Yoshihito Nishioka		Khachanov (ROC) L 6–3, 1–6, 2–6	Did not advance
Yūichi Sugita		Fognini (ITA) L 4–6, 3–6	Did not advance
Taro Daniel Yoshihito Nishioka	Doubles	N/A	Čilić / Dodig (CRO) L 2–6, 4–6	Did not advance
Ben McLachlan Kei Nishikori			Sousa / Sousa (POR) W 6–1, 6–4	Murray / Skupski (GBR) W 6–3, 6–4	Mektić / Pavić (CRO) L 3–6, 3–6	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Misaki Doi	Singles	Zarazúa (MEX) W 6–3, 6–2	Bencic (SUI) L 2–6, 4–6	Did not advance
Nao Hibino		Stojanović (SRB) L 3–6, 3–6	Did not advance
Naomi Osaka		Zheng Ss (CHN) W 6–1, 6–4	Golubic (SUI) W 6–3, 6–2	Vondroušová (CZE) L 1–6, 4–6	Did not advance
Shuko Aoyama Ena Shibahara	Doubles	N/A	Bencic / Golubic (SUI) L 4–6, 7–6(7–5), [5–10]	Did not advance
Nao Hibino Makoto Ninomiya			Barty / Sanders (AUS) L 1–6, 2–6	Did not advance

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ena Shibahara Ben McLachlan	Doubles	Shvedova / Golubev (KAZ) W 6–3, 7–6(7–3)	Pavlyuchenkova / Rublev (ROC) L 5–7, 7–6(7–0), [8–10]	Did not advance

Triathlon

Main articles: Triathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Triathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

As the host nation, Japan reserves four quota places with two for each gender in the individual and mixed relay triathlon events.

Individual

Athlete	Event	Time						Rank
		Swim (1.5 km)	Trans 1	Bike (40 km)	Trans 2	Run (10 km)	Total
Kenji Nener	Men's	17:51	0:41	56:31	0:28	30:53	1:46:24	14
Makoto Odakura		18:21	0:41	56:05	0:30	31:26	1:47:03	19
Niina Kishimoto	Women's	19:48	0:42	Did not finish
Yuko Takahashi		19:10	0:42	1:03:15	0:31	37:40	2:01:18	18

Relay

Athlete	Event	Time						Rank
		Swim (300 m)	Trans 1	Bike (7 km)	Trans 2	Run (2 km)	Total group
Kenji Nener	Mixed relay	4:03	0:35	9:36	0:28	5:48	20:30	N/A
Makoto Odakura		4:11	0:38	10:19	0:29	6:01	21:38
Niina Kishimoto		4:32	0:39	10:22	0:30	6:54	22:57
Yuko Takahashi		3:52	0:40	10:31	0:28	6:26	21:57
Total		N/A					1:24:40	6

Volleyball

Main article: Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Beach

As the host nation, Japan received a guaranteed place for each gender.

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round				Repechage	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Yusuke Ishijima Katsuhiro Shiratori	Men's	Kantor / Łosiak (POL) L(15–21, 14–21)	Lupo / Nicolai (ITA) L (19–21, 16–21)	Thole / Wickler (GER) L (16–21, 11–21)	4	Did not advance
Miki Ishii Megumi Murakami	Women's	Hermannová / Sluková (CZE) W (21–0, 21–0)	Kozuch / Ludwig (GER) L (17–21, 20–22)	Betschart / Hüberli (SUI) L (21–14, 19–21, 12–15)	3 q	Baquerizo / Fernández (ESP) L (15–21, 10–21)	Did not advance

Indoor

Summary

Team	Event	Group stage						Quarter-finals	Semi-finals	GM / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Japan men's	Men's tournament	Venezuela W 3–0	Canada W 3–1	Italy L 1–3	Poland L 0–3	Iran W 3–2	3 Q	Brazil L 0–3	Did not advance
Japan women's	Women's tournament	Kenya W 3–0	Serbia L 0–3	Brazil L 0–3	South Korea L 2–3	Dominican Republic L 1–3	5	Did not advance

Men's tournament

Main article: Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Japan men's volleyball team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation.

Team roster

Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's team rosters

Group play

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Quarterfinal

Women's tournament

Main article: Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Japan women's volleyball team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation.

Team roster

The roster was announced 30 June 2021.

Head coach: Kumi Nakada

• 1 Ai Kurogo OS
• 2 Sarina Koga OS
• 3 Kanami Tashiro S
• 4 Mayu Ishikawa OS
• 5 Haruyo Shimamura MB
• 6 Mako Kobata L
• 8 Yuki Ishii OS
• 9 Mai Okumura MB
• 11 Erika Araki (c) MB
• 12 Aki Momii S
• 15 Kotona Hayashi OS
• 19 Nichika Yamada MB

Group play

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Water polo

Main article: Water polo at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Summary

Key:

• FT – After full time.
• P – Match decided by penalty-shootout.

Team	Event	Group stage						Quarter-finals	Semi-finals	GM / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Japan men's	Men's tournament	United States L 13–15	Hungary L 11–16	Greece L 9–10	Italy L 8–16	South Africa W 24–9	5	Did not advance
Japan women's	Women's tournament	United States L 4–25	China L 11–16	Hungary L 13–17	Russia L 16–20	N/A	5	Did not advance

Men's tournament

Main article: Water polo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Japan men's water polo team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation.

Team roster

Water polo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's team rosters

Group play

25 July 2021 (2021-07-25) 14:00 v	Report	United States	15–13	Japan	Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center Referees: Sébastien Dervieux (FRA), Arkadiy Voevodin (RUS)
		Score by quarters: 3–3, 4–5, 4–2, 4–3
		Bowen 5	Goals	three players 3

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27 July 2021 (2021-07-27) 18:20 v	Report	Japan	11–16	Hungary	Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center Referees: Michiel Zwart (NED), Nenad Periš (CRO)
		Score by quarters: 3–4, 5–4, 2–5, 1–3
		Inaba, Okawa 3	Goals	Zalánki 4

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29 July 2021 (2021-07-29) 18:20 v	Report	Greece	10–9	Japan	Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center Referees: Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), Vojin Putniković (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 1–1, 4–4, 2–1, 3–3
		Kapotsis, Genidounias 3	Goals	Adachi 3

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31 July 2021 (2021-07-31) 18:20 v	Report	Italy	16–8	Japan	Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center Referees: Stanko Ivanovski (MNE), Nenad Periš (CRO)
		Score by quarters: 5–0, 3–3, 3–1, 5–4
		Bodagas, Figlioli 3	Goals	Inaba 3

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2 August 2021 (2021-08-02) 18:20 v	Report	Japan	24–9	South Africa	Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center Referees: John Waldow (NZL), Vojin Putniković (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 5–4, 7–4, 6–1, 6–0
		Adachi, Arai 4	Goals	Neill 4

Women's tournament

Main article: Water polo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Japan women's water polo team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation.

Team roster

Water polo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's team rosters

Group play

24 July 2021 (2021-07-24) 14:00 v	Report	Japan	4–25	United States	Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center Referees: Germán Moller (ARG), Nicola Johnson (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 3–8, 0–6, 1–7, 0–4
		Koide 2	Goals	Haralabidis, Steffens 5

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28 July 2021 (2021-07-28) 18:20 v	Report	China	16–11	Japan	Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center Referees: Marie-Claude Deslières (CAN), Viktor Salnichenko (KAZ)
		Score by quarters: 5–2, 4–3, 4–3, 3–3
		Zhang 5	Goals	Arima 3

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30 July 2021 (2021-07-30) 18:20 v	Report	Japan	13–17	Hungary	Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center Referees: Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), Vojin Putniković (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 4–3, 3–4, 3–5, 3–5
		Arima, Inaba 4	Goals	Parkes 6

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1 August 2021 (2021-08-01) 18:20 v	Report	ROC	20–16	Japan	Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center Referees: Marie-Claude Deslières (CAN), Dion Willis (RSA)
		Score by quarters: 5–5, 7–3, 6–4, 2–4
		Serzhantova 4	Goals	Arima 5

Weightlifting

Main articles: Weightlifting at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Weightlifting at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Japanese weightlifters qualified for four quota places at the games, based on the Tokyo 2020 Rankings Qualification List of 11 June 2021 and three quotas from Host Nation Quotas.

Men

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Yoichi Itokazu	−61 kg	133	3	159	5	292	4
Mitsunori Konnai	−67 kg	135	11	172	6	307	7
Masanori Miyamoto	−73 kg	147	8	188	5	335	7
Toshiki Yamamoto	−96 kg	168	7	200	DNF	168	DNF

Women

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Hiromi Miyake	−49 kg	74	11	99	DNF	74	DNF
Kanae Yagi	−55 kg	81	13	102	10	183	11
Mikiko Andoh	−59 kg	94	6	120	3	214

Wrestling

Main articles: Wrestling at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Wrestling at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Japan qualified twelve wrestlers for each of the following classes into the Olympic competition. Eight of them finished among the top six to book Olympic spots in the men's freestyle (65 and 74 kg), men's Greco-Roman 60 kg and women's freestyle wrestling (53, 57, 62, 68, and 76 kg) at the 2019 World Championships, while two additional licenses were awarded to the Japanese wrestlers, who progressed to the top two finals of the men's Greco-Roman 77 kg and women's freestyle 50 kg, respectively, at the 2021 Asian Qualification Tournament in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Two Japanese wrestlers claimed one of the remaining slots each in the men's freestyle 57 and 86 kg, respectively, to complete the host nation's roster at the 2021 World Qualification Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Key:

• VT (ranking points: 5–0 or 0–5) – Victory by fall.
• VB (ranking points: 5–0 or 0–5) – Victory by injury (VF for forfeit, VA for withdrawal or disqualification)
• PP (ranking points: 3–1 or 1–3) – Decision by points – the loser with technical points.
• PO (ranking points: 3–0 or 0–3) – Decision by points – the loser without technical points.
• ST (ranking points: 4–0 or 0–4) – Great superiority – the loser without technical points and a margin of victory of at least 8 (Greco-Roman) or 10 (freestyle) points.
• SP (ranking points: 4–1 or 1–4) – Technical superiority – the loser with technical points and a margin of victory of at least 8 (Greco-Roman) or 10 (freestyle) points.

Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Yuki Takahashi	Men's −57 kg	Mićić (SRB) W 3–0 PO	Sanayev (KAZ) L 1–3 PP	Did not advance			8
Takuto Otoguro	Men's −65 kg	Tömör-Ochir (MGL) W 3–1 PP	Muszukajev (HUN) W 3–1 PP	Rashidov (ROC) W 3–1 PP	Bye	Aliyev (AZE) W 3–1 PP
Keisuke Otoguro	Men's −74 kg	Kaisanov (KAZ) L 0–5 VT	Did not advance				14
Sosuke Takatani	Men's −86 kg	Göçen (TUR) L 1–3 PP	Did not advance				9
Yui Susaki	Women's −50 kg	Tsogt-Ochir (MGL) W 4–0 ST	Yépez (ECU) W 4–0 ST	Stadnik (AZE) W 4–0 ST	Bye	Sun Yn (CHN) W 4–0 ST
Mayu Mukaida	Women's −53 kg	Essombe (CMR) W 4–0 ST	Zasina (POL) W 4–1 SP	Bat-Ochir (MGL) W 3–1 PP	Bye	Pang Qy (CHN) W 3–1 PP
Risako Kawai	Women's −57 kg	Camara (GUI) W 3–1 PP	Boldsaikhan (MGL) W 3–0 PO	Maroulis (USA) W 3–1 PP	Bye	Kurachkina (BLR) W 3–0 PO
Yukako Kawai	Women's −62 kg	Ovcharova (ROC) W 4–0 ST	Johansson (SWE) W 3–1 PP	Yusein (BUL) W 3–1 PP	Bye	Tynybekova (KGZ) W 3–1 PP
Sara Dosho	Women's −68 kg	Mensah (USA) L 0–4 ST	Did not advance		Zhou F (CHN) W 3–1 PP	Cherkasova (UKR) L 0–5 VT	5
Hiroe Minagawa	Women's −76 kg	Ochirbat (MGL) W 3–0 PO	Mäe (EST) W 3–0 PO	Rotter-Focken (GER) L 1–3 PP	Bye	Zhou Q (CHN) L 0–5 VT	5

Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Kenichiro Fumita	Men's −60 kg	Fergat (ALG) W 4–0 ST	Walihan (CHN) W 3–1 PP	Temirov (UKR) W 3–1 PP	Bye	Orta (CUB) L 1–3 PP
Shohei Yabiku	Men's −77 kg	Zhadrayev (KAZ) W 3–1 PP	Lőrincz (HUN) L 1–3 PP	Did not advance	Ayet Ikram (MAR) W 5–0 VB	Ali Geraei (IRI) W 4–1 SP

See also

• Japan at the 2020 Summer Paralympics