Japan at the 2024 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	JPN
Nocname:	Japanese Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	2024
Location:	Paris, France
Website:
Competitors:	403
Sports:	34
Flagbearer Open:	Shigeyuki Nakarai & Misaki Emura
Flagbearer Close:	Haruka Kitaguchi
Rank:	3
Gold:	20
Silver:	12
Bronze:	13
Officials:	Mitsugi Ogata, chef de mission
Appearances:	auto

Japan competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. Japanese athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games from 1912 onwards, except for two occasions: the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, to which they were not invited because of the nation's role in World War II, and the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, due to their participation in the United States-led boycott.

Medalists

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Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9		Total
Wrestling	8	1	2	11
Judo	3	2	3	8
Gymnastics	3	0	1	4
Skateboarding	2	2	0	4
Fencing	2	1	2	5
Breaking	1	0	0	1
Athletics	1	0	0	1
Table tennis	0	1	1	2
Diving	0	1	0	1
Modern pentathlon	0	1	0	1
Sailing	0	1	0	1
Sport climbing	0	1	0	1
Swimming	0	1	0	1
Badminton	0	0	2	2
Equestrian	0	0	1	1
Golf	0	0	1	1
Total	20	12	13	45

Medals by gender
Gender				Total
Female	8	3	7	18
Male	12	7	4	23
Mixed	0	2	2	4
Total	style=background:gold	20	style=background:silver	12	style=background:#c96	13	45

Medals by date
Date	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9		Total
27 July	1	0	1	2
28 July	3	2	0	5
29 July	2	0	3	5
30 July	1	0	0	1
31 July	1	1	0	2
1 August	0	0	1	1
2 August	0	1	1	2
3 August	0	1	3	4
4 August	1	0	1	2
5 August	1	0	1	2
6 August	1	1	1	3
7 August	1	0	1	2
8 August	1	1	0	2
9 August	3	1	0	4
10 August	2	4	0	6
11 August	2	0	0	2
Total	20	12	13	45

Multiple medalists
Name	Sport				Total
		3	0	1	4
	Fencing	1	1	0	2
	Judo	1	1	0	2
	Judo	1	1	0	2
	Judo	1	1	0	2
	Judo	0	2	0	2
	Judo	0	1	1	2
	Judo	0	1	1	2
	Judo	0	1	1	2
	Table Tennis	0	1	1	2

Competitors

served as Japan's chef de mission.^[1]

The following is the list of the number of the competitors representing Japan in the Games.

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Archery	3	1	4
Artistic swimming	0	9	9
Athletics	29	20	49
Badminton	5	7	12
Basketball	12	12	24
Boxing	2	0	2
Breaking	2	2	4
Canoeing	2	1	3
Cycling	9	9	18
Diving	2	3	5
Equestrian	6	0	6
Fencing	7	7	14
Field hockey	0	16	16
Football	18	18	36
Golf	2	2	4
Gymnastics	6	5	11
Handball	14	0	14
Judo	7	7	14
Modern pentathlon	1	1	2
Rowing	3	2	5
Rugby sevens	12	12	24
Sailing	3	4	7
Shooting	2	1	3
Skateboarding	4	6	10
Sport climbing	2	2	4
Surfing	3	1	4
Swimming	15	14	29
Table Tennis	3	3	6
Tennis	2	4	6
Triathlon	2	1	3
Volleyball	12	14	26
Water polo	12	0	12
Weightlifting	2	1	3
Wrestling	8	6	14
Total	212	191	403

Archery

See main article: article, Archery at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Archery at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Japan fielded a full squad of men's team recurve by virtue of their bronze-medal victory at the 2023 World Championships in Berlin, Germany, obtaining one of three spots available at that competition.^[2]

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Takaharu Furukawa	align=left rowspan=3	Men's individual	659	35	L 4–6	Did not advance
Junya Nakanishi	663	30	W 6–4	L 4–6	Did not advance
Fumiya Saito	650	49	W 6–4	L 1–7	Did not advance
Takaharu Furukawa Junya Nakanishi Fumiya Saito	Men's team	1972	8	W 5–1	L 0–6	Did not advance
Satsuki Noda	Women's individual	666	12	W 6–0	W 6–2	L 4–6	Did not advance
Junya Nakanishi Satsuki Noda	Mixed team	1329	11	W 5–4	L 3–5	Did not advance

Artistic swimming

See main article: Artistic swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Artistic swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Japan fielded a full-squad of eight artistic swimmers to compete in the open team and women's duet event, by virtue of the five highest rank eligible nations in the combined open team results, at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Qatar.

Athlete	Event	Technical routine		Free routine			Acrobatic routine
		Points	Rank	Points	Total (technical + free)	Rank	Points	Total	Rank
Moe Higa Tomoka Sato	Duet	257.3533	6	249.7271	507.0804	8	colspan="3"
Moe Higa Moeka Kijima Uta Kobayashi Tomoka Sato Ayano Shimada Ami Wada Mashiro Yasunaga Megumu Yoshida	Team	284.9017	3	343.0291	627.9308	6	252.7533	880.6841	5

Athletics

See main article: article, Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Japanese track and field athletes achieved the entry standards for Paris 2024, either by passing the direct qualifying mark (or time for track and road races) or by world ranking, in the following events (a maximum of 3 athletes each):^{[3] [4]}

Track and road events

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Repechage		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Abdul Hakim Sani Brown	100 m	10.02	2 Q	9.96	4	Did not advance
Akihiro Higashida	10.19	5	Did not advance
Ryuichiro Sakai	10.17	5
Towa Uzawa	200 m	20.33	3 Q	20.54	6	Did not advance
Shota Iizuka	20.67	5 R	20.72	4	Did not advance
Koki Ueyama	20.84	6 R	20.92	4	Did not advance
Fuga Sato	align=left rowspan=3	400 m	46.13	6 R			Did not advance
Kentaro Sato	45.60	5 R			Did not advance
Yuki Joseph Nakajima	45.37	6 R			Did not advance
Tomoki Ota	align=left rowspan=2	10000 m	29:12.48	24
Jun Kasai	27:53.18	20
Shunsuke Izumiya	align=left rowspan=3	110 m hurdles	13.27	3 Q	13.32	3	Did not advance
Rachid Muratake	13.22	1 Q	13.26	4 q	13.21	5
Shunya Takayama	13.46	4 R	13.45	3	Did not advance
Daiki Ogawa	align=left rowspan=3	400 m hurdles	50.21	6 R	49.25	5	Did not advance
Kaito Tsutsue	50.50	7 R			Did not advance
Ken Toyoda	53.62	6 R			Did not advance
Ryuji Miura	3000 m steeplechase	8:12.41	4 Q	8:11.72	8
Ryoma Aoki	8:29.03	8	Did not advance
Naoki Koyama	align=left rowspan=3	Marathon	2:10:33	23
Akira Akasaki	2:07:32	6
Suguru Osako	2:09:25	13
Ryo Hamanishi	align=left rowspan=3	20 km walk	1:20:33	18
Koki Ikeda	1:19:41	7
Yuta Koga	1:19:50	8
Akihiro Higashida Yoshihide Kiryu Ryuichiro Sakai Abdul Hakim Sani Brown Shoma Yamamoto Hiroki Yanagita	4 × 100 m relay	38.06	4 q	37.78	5
Kaito Kawabata Yuki Joseph Nakajima Yudai Nishi Fuga Sato Kentaro Sato Takuho Yoshizu	4 × 400 m relay	2:59.48	4 q	2:58.33	6

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Repechage		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Nozomi Tanaka	align=left rowspan=2	1500 m	4:04.28	11	3:59.70	11	Did not advance
Yume Goto	4:09.41	13 R	4:10.40	11	Did not advance
Nozomi Tanaka	align=left rowspan=3	5000 m	15:00.62	9	Did not advance
Yuma Yamamoto	15:43.67	17	Did not advance
Wakana Kabasawa	15:50.86	19	Did not advance
Rino Goshima	10000 m	31:29.48	18
Haruka Kokai	31:44.03	19
Yuka Takashima	31:52.07	22
Mako Fukube	align=left rowspan=2	100 m hurdles	12.85	4 q	12.89	5	Did not advance
Yumi Tanaka	12.90	5 R	12.89	2 Q	12.91	7	Did not advance
Mao Ichiyama	align=left rowspan=2	Marathon	2:34:13	51
Yuka Suzuki	2:24:02	6
Nanako Fujii	20 km walk	1:34:26						32
Kumiko Okada
Ayane Yanai

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Rank
Masatora Kawano   Kumiko Okada	align=left rowspan=2	Marathon walk relay	2:55:40	8
Kazuki Takahashi  Ayane Yanai	2:58:08	13

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Ryoichi Akamatsu	align=left rowspan=2	Men's high jump	2.27	5 q	2.31	5
Tomohiro Shinno	2.20	23	Did not advance
Yuki Hashioka	Men's long jump	7.81	17	Did not advance
Roderick Genki Dean	Men's javelin throw	82.48	13	Did not advance
Sumire Hata	Women's long jump	6.31	26	Did not advance
Mariko Morimoto	Women's triple jump	13.40	28	Did not advance
Haruka Kitaguchi	Women's javelin throw	62.58	7 Q	65.80
Marina Saito	59.42	21	Did not advance
Momone Ueda	61.08	12 q	61.64	10

Badminton

See main article: Badminton at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Badminton at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Japan entered twelve badminton players into the Olympic tournament based on the BWF Race to Paris Rankings.

Men

Athlete	Event	Group stage					Elimination	Quarter-final	Semi-final	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Kodai Naraoka	Singles	W 2–0	W 2–0	1Q	L 0–2	Did not advance
Kenta Nishimoto		W 2–0	W 2–0	1Q	L 1–2	Did not advance
Takuro Hoki Yugo Kobayashi	Doubles	L 0–2	W 2–0	L 0–2	L 0–2	4		Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Elimination	Quarter-final	Semi-final	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Akane Yamaguchi	Singles	W 2–0	W 2–1		1Q	W 2–0	L 1–2	Did not advance		8
Aya Ohori		W 2–0	W 2–0		1Q	W 2–1	L 0–2	Did not advance		7
Nami Matsuyama Chiharu Shida	Doubles	W 2–0	W 2–0	L 0–2	2Q		W 2–0	L 0–2	W 2–0
Mayu Matsumoto Wakana Nagahara		W 2–0	L 1–2	L 0–2	3		Did not advance

Mixed

Basketball

See main article: article and Basketball at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

5×5 basketball

Summary

Team	Event	Group stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Japan men's	Men's tournament	L 77–97	L 90–94 (OT)	L 84-102	4	Did not advance			11
Japan women's	Women's tournament	L 76–102	L 64–75	L 58–85	4	Did not advance			12

Men's tournament

See main article: Basketball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament and Basketball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification. The Japanese men's basketball team, qualified for the games by virtue of their results through the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Okinawa, as the highest rank from Asian zone.^[5]

Team roster

Group play--------

Women's tournament

See main article: Basketball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament and Basketball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification. The Japanese women's basketball team, qualified by placing in the top three at the 2024 Olympic Qualifying Tournaments in Sopron, Hungary.

Team roster

Group play--------

Boxing

See main article: article, Boxing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Boxing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Japan entered two boxers into the Olympic tournament. Shudai Harada (men's featherweight) and Sewon Okazawa (men's welterweight) qualified for Paris by advancing to the finals round in their respective division, at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.^[6]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Shudai Harada	Men's 57 kg		W 5–0	L 0–5	Did not advance
Sewon Okazawa	Men's 71 kg		L 2–3	Did not advance

Breaking

See main article: article, Breaking at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Breaking at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Japan entered four breakdancers to compete in the B-Boy and B-Girl dual battles for Paris 2024. Shigeyuki Nakarai (Shigekix) qualified for the games after he won the gold medal at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.^[7] Later on, Hiroto Ono (Hiro10), Ami Yuasa (Ami) and Ayumi Fukushima (Ayumi) outlasted from 2024 Olympic Qualifier Series in Shanghai, China and Budapest, Hungary.

Athlete	Nickname	Event	Round-robin		Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
			Votes	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
	Shigekix	align=left rowspan=2	B-Boys	38	2 Q	W 3–0	W 3–0	L 0–3	4
	Hiro10	8	4	Did not advance
Ami Yuasa	Ami	align=left rowspan=2	B-Girls	52	1 Q	W (8–1, 9–0, 8–1)	W (3–6, 6–3, 8–1)	W (6–3, 5–4, 5–4)
	Ayumi	31	2 Q	L (5–4, 3–6, 2–7)	Did not advance		5

Canoeing

See main article: Canoeing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Canoeing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification.

Slalom

Japan entered two boats into the slalom competition, for the Games through the 2023 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in London, Great Britain.^[8] They also qualified a boat in the men's C-1 class of their result in the 2023 Asian Canoe Slalom Olympic Qualifiers.

Athlete	Event	Preliminary						Semifinal		Final
		Run 1	Rank	Run 2	Rank	Best	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Takuya Haneda	Men's C-1	96.82	11	99.59	11	96.82	13 Q	103.11	13	Did not advance
Yuuki Tanaka	Men's K-1	103.21	21	91.78	14	91.78	20 Q	101.90	14	Did not advance
Haruka Okazaki	Women's C-1	122.50	20	130.42	18	122.5	20	Did not advance
Aki Yazawa	Women's K-1	106.01	20	107.16	22	106.01	21 Q	110.50	17	Did not advance

Kayak cross

Athlete	Event	Time trial		Round 1	Repechage	Heat	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Time	Rank	Position	Position	Position	Position	Position	Position	Rank
Yuuki Tanaka	Men's KX-1	81.35	34	2 Q		3	Did not advance			20
Haruka Okazaki	Women's KX-1	84.16	36	4 R	3	Did not advance				37
Aki Yazawa	79.96	31	3 R	3	Did not advance				36

Cycling

See main article: article, Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification.

Road

Japan entered one male and one female rider to compete in the road race events at the Olympic. Japan secured those quota through the UCI Nation Ranking.^[9]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Yukiya Arashiro	Men's road race	6:28:31	56
Eri Yonamine	Women's road race	4:04:23	26

Track

Japanese riders obtained a full spots for men's track events and women's sprint, keirin, team pursuit, madison, and omnium; following the release of the final UCI Olympic rankings.

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round 1	Repechage 1	Round 2	Repechage 2	Round 3	Repechage 3	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals /
		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
Kaiya Ota	Men's sprint	9.350 77.005	8 Q	W 9.946 72.391		L 10.173 72.369	W 10.076 71.457	W 9.774 73.665		W,L, L	Did not advance	5th place final L	7
Yuta Obara		9.483 75.925	16 Q	L 9.917 72.823	W 9.829 73.253	L 10.074 73.327	W 9.835 73.208	L 10.009 73.134	W 10.043 71.692	L, L	Did not advance	5th place final L	6
Mina Sato	Women's sprint	10.257 70.196	7 Q	W 11.023 65.318		W 10.816 66.568		L 10.870 66.433	L 10.724 67.841	Did not advance
Riyu Ohta		10.659 67.549	20 Q	L 11.202 65.449	L 11.312 65.538	Did not advance

Team sprint

Qualification legend: FA=Gold medal final; FB=Bronze medal final

Pursuit

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Opponent Results	Rank	Opponent Results	Rank
Shunsuke Imamura  Eiya Hashimoto  Kazushige Kuboki	Men's team pursuit	3:53.489	10	Did not advance
Maho Kakita  Mizuki Ikeda  Tsuyaka Uchino  Yumi Kajihara	Women's team pursuit	4:13.818	10	Did not advance

Keirin

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Repechage	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Rank	Rank	Rank	Rank	Rank
Kaiya Ota	Men's keirin	3 R	1 Q	4 Q	DSQ	Did not advance
Shinji Nakano		2 Q		4 Q	3 FA	DNF
Mina Sato	Women's keirin	2 Q		5	Did not advance
Riyu Ohta		5 R	1 Q	4 SF	6 FB	9

Omnium

Athlete	Event	Scratch race		Tempo race		Elimination race		Points race		Total
		Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points
Kazushige Kuboki	Men's omnium	5	32	15	12	10	22	5	47	6	113
Yumi Kajihara	Women's omnium	16	10	17	8	21	1	5	25	16	44

Madison

Athlete	Event	Points	Laps	Rank
Shunsuke Imamura  Eiya Hashimoto Kazushige Kuboki	Men's madison	32	20	5
Maho Kakita  Tsuyaka Uchino	Women's madison	1	–	12

Mountain biking

Japanese mountain bikers secured one female quota places for the Olympics through 2023 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Glasgow, Great Britain.

BMX

FreestyleJapanese riders received a single quota spot in the men's BMX freestyle for Paris 2024, finishing among the top two at the 2022 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.^{[10] [11]}

RaceJapanese riders secured a single quota place in the women's BMX race for Paris 2024 by topping the field of nations vying for qualification at the 2023 Asian Championships in Tagaytay, Philippines.^{[12] [13]}

Diving

See main article: Diving at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Diving at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Japanese divers secured five quota places for Paris 2024 by advancing to the top twelve final each of the men's individual platform, women's individual springboard and platform, respectively at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, and through 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Qatar and unused quota reallocation.

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Semifinal		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Sakai Sho	Men's 3 m springboard	389.15	11	410.15	14	Did not advance
Rikuto Tamai	Men's 10 m platform	497.15	2	477.00	3	507.65
Sayaka Mikami	align=left rowspan=2	Women's 3 m springboard	258.35	21	Did not advance
Haruka Enomoto	299.10	6	244.20	18	Did not advance
Matsuri Arai	Women's 10 m platform	280.65	16	300.50	8	314.45	9

Equestrian

See main article: Equestrian at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Equestrian at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Japan entered a squad of three jumping riders and three eventing riders into the Olympic equestrian. Japanese jumping squad entered the competition by securing the last of two available team spots at the International Equestrian Federation (FEI)-designated Olympic qualifier for Group G in Valkenswaard, Netherlands. Meanwhile, Japanese eventing squad entered the competition, through getting the re-allocation spots, at the Groups F and G qualification event in Millstreet, Ireland.

Eventing

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	MGH Grafton Street	Individual	25.50	8	0.00	25.50	5	0.40	25.90	5	4.40	30.30	7	30.30	7
Kazuma Tomoto	Vinci de la Vigne JRA	27.40	18	0.00	27.40	8	0.00	27.40	7	0.00	27.40	5	27.40	5
Ryuzo Kitajima	Cekatinka JRA	34.50	37	6.40	34.50	28	Withdrawn
Yoshiaki Oiwa Kazuma Tomoto Ryuzo Kitajima Toshiyuki Tanaka (reserve)	MGH Grafton Street Vinci de la Vigne JRA Cekatinka JRA Jefferson JRA	Team	87.40	5	6.40	93.80	3	2.00		3	115.80

Jumping

Athlete	Horse	Event	Qualification		Final
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Time	Rank
Takashi Haase Shibayama	Karamell M&M	align=left rowspan=3	Individual	0	20 Q	Retired
Eiken Sato	Chadellano	Retired
Taizo Sugitani	Quincy 194	9	54	Did not advance
Takashi Haase Shibayama Eiken Sato Taizo Sugitani	See above	Team	51	16	Did not advance

Reserve is Mike Kawai on Saxo de la Cour.

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Fencing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Japan entered eighteen fencers into the Olympic competition. Kento Yoshida and Miho Yoshimura qualified for the games, by nominated one of two highest ranked individual fencers for Asian & Oceanian zone; meanwhile, the nations men's and women's foil team, and also men's épée team, qualified for the games after becoming one the four highest ranked worldwide team; meanwhile, women's sabre team qualified after becoming the highest ranked team, eligible for Asia & Oceania zone; through the release of the FIE Official ranking for Paris 2024.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Koki Kano	align=left rowspan=3	Men's épée	W 14–12	W 15–4	W 15–6	W 14–13	W 15–9
Kazuyasu Minobe	W 9–8	L 11–15	Did not advance
Masaru Yamada	W 15–9	W 15–11	L 11–12	Did not advance
Koki Kano Kazuyasu Minobe Masaru Yamada	Men's team épée	W 39–33	W 45–37	L 25–26
Kazuki Iimura	align=left rowspan=3	Men's foil		W 15–8	W15–8	W 15–14	L 11–15	L 12–15	4
Kyosuke Matsuyama		W 15–6	L 11–15	Did not advance
Takahiro Shikine		L 9–15	Did not advance
Kazuki Iimura Kyosuke Matsuyama Takahiro Shikine Yudai Nagano	Men's team foil	W 45–26	W 45–37	W 45–36
Kento Yoshida	Men's sabre		L 11–15	Did not advance
Miho Yoshimura	Women's épée	W 15–7	W 14–13	L 10–15	Did not advance
Sera Azuma	align=left rowspan=3	Women's foil	L 14–15	Did not advance
Karin Miyawaki	L 10–15	Did not advance
Yuka Ueno	L 13–15	Did not advance
Sera Azuma Karin Miyawaki Yuka Ueno	Women's team foil	W 45–30	L 39–45	W 33–32
Misaki Emura	align=left rowspan=3	Women's sabre		W 15–14	L 7–15	Did not advance
Shihomi Fukushima		L 9–15	Did not advance
Risa Takashima		L 10–15	Did not advance
Misaki Emura Shihomi Fukushima Seri Ozaki Risa Takashima	Women's team sabre	W 45–37	L 32–45	W 45–40

Field hockey

See main article: Field hockey at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Summary

Women's tournament

See main article: Field hockey at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament and Field hockey at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification. Japan women's national field hockey team qualified for the Olympics by finishing in the top three at the 2024 FIH Olympic Qualifiers.^[14]

Team roster

Group play----------------

Football

See main article: Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Summary

Team	Event	Group Stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Japan men's	Men's tournament	W 5–0	W 1–0	W 1–0	1 Q	L 0–3	Did not advance		5
Japan women's	Women's tournament	L 1–2	W 2–1	W 3–1	2 Q	L 0–1	Did not advance		5

Men's tournament

See main article: Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament and Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification. Japan men's football team qualified for the Olympics by advancing to the finals of the 2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup in Doha, Qatar.

Team rosterPlayers in bold have been capped at full international level.

Group play--------

Quarterfinal

Women's tournament

See main article: Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament and Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification. Japan women's football team qualified for the Olympics by winning the third round match of the 2024 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and in Tokyo.^[15]

Team roster

• Women's team event – one team of 18 players

Group play--------

Quarterfinal

Golf

See main article: Golf at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Golf at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Japan entered four golfers into the Olympic tournament. All of them qualified directly for the games in the men's and women's individual competitions, based on their own world ranking positions, on the IGF World Rankings.

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Total
		Score	Score	Score	Score	Score	Par	Rank
Hideki Matsuyama	align=left rowspan=2	Men's	63	68	71	65	267	−17
Keita Nakajima	70	70	73	74	287	+3	T49
Miyū Yamashita	align=left rowspan=2	Women's	71	70	68	73	282	−6	T4
Yuka Saso	77	74	72	82	305	+17	54

Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification.

Artistic

Japan fielded a full squad of male and female artistic gymnasts for Paris. Five male gymnasts qualified for the games after scoring a runner-up finish in the team all-around at the 2022 World Championships in Liverpool, Great Britain.^{[16] [17]} Meanwhile, the five female gymnasts qualified for the games after advancing to the final round of the team all-around at the 2023 World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium, obtaining one of nine available team spots for nations not yet qualified.^[18]

The five members of the men's and women's teams were announced in May 2024 after the conclusion of the NHK Trophy. For the first time in 40 years, all members named to the women's team were slated to be first-time Olympians.^[19] The men's team is led by Daiki Hashimoto, the defending Olympic all-around champion.^[20] In mid-July, nineteen-year-old Shoko Miyata was removed from the Japanese women's team after smoking and drinking alcohol, which are prohibited in Japan for those under 20.^{[21] [22]} Since Miyata was removed for a reason other than injury, no athlete substitution was made.^[23] Thus, the women's team is anticipated to compete with only four athletes.

Men

Team

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Apparatus						Total	Rank	Apparatus						Total	Rank
Daiki Hashimoto	align=left rowspan=6	Team	13.733	14.466		14.566			85.064	3 Q	14.633	13.100		14.900		14.566	rowspan=5 colspan=2
Kazuma Kaya	14.100		14.066		14.933	13.966	14.000	14.366	14.000		14.733
Shinnosuke Oka	14.333	14.466	14.000		15.300 Q	14.533 Q	86.865	2 Q	14.633		14.133		14.866	14.433
Takaaki Sugino		15.033 Q		14.600		14.733 Q		14.866		14.700		14.566
Wataru Tanigawa			14.466	14.300	15.000 Q			14.500	13.833	14.766
Total	42.166	43.965	42.532	43.466	45.233	43.232	260.594	2 Q	43.266	42.332	42.633	43.433	44.365	43.565	259.594

Individual finals

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Apparatus						Total	Rank	Apparatus						Total	Rank
Daiki Hashimoto	align=left rowspan=2	All-around	See team results above	14.633	12.966	13.400	14.766	14.433	14.400	84.598	6
Shinnosuke Oka	14.566	14.500	13.866	14.300	15.100	14.500	86.832
Takaaki Sugino	Pommel horse		15.033	15.033	4 Q		14.933	14.933	6
Shinnosuke Oka	align=left rowspan=2	Parallel bars	15.300		15.300	3 Q	15.300		15.300
Wataru Tanigawa	15.000		15.000	8 Q	14.133		14.133	6
Takaaki Sugino	align=left rowspan=2	Horizontal bar	14.733	14.733	3 Q	12.266	12.266	7
Shinnosuke Oka	14.533	14.533	5 Q	14.533	14.533

Women

Team

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Apparatus				Total	Rank	Apparatus				Total	Rank
Rina Kishi	align=left rowspan=5	Team	14.033	13.566	13.5	13.6	54.699	10 Q	13.966	13.600	13.466	13.433	rowspan=4 colspan=2
Haruka Nakamura	13.066	13.6	13.6	13.266	53.532	17 Q	12.966	12.433	12.800	13.233
Mana Okamura	13.033	13.266	13.633	13.2	53.132	19		13.100	13.700	12.933
Kohane Ushioku	13.866	12.833	12.866	12.566	52.131	27	13.833	colspan=3
Total	40.965	40.432	40.733	40.066	162.196	5 Q	40.765	39.133	39.966	39.599	159.463	8

Individual finals

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Apparatus				Total	Rank	Apparatus				Total	Rank
Rina Kishi	align=left rowspan=2	All-around	See team results above	13.766	13.833	13.133	13.233	53.965	11
Haruka Nakamura	12.833	13.933	13.700	12.633	53.099	15
Rina Kishi	Floor	13.6	13.6	8 Q	13.166	13.166	7

Trampoline

Japan qualified two gymnasts: one for men's trampoline by finishing in the top five eligible nations at the 2023 World Championships in Birmingham, United Kingdom,^[24] and one for women's trampoline through the final ranking of 2023–2024 Trampoline World Cup series.

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Ryusei Nishioka	Men's	35.750	16	Did not advance
Hikaru Mori	Women's	55.150	6 Q	54.740	6

Handball

See main article: Handball at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Summary

Men's tournament

See main article: Handball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament and Handball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification. Japan men's national handball team qualified for the Olympics by winning the final match against Bahrain at the 2023 Asian Men's Handball Qualification for the 2024 Olympic Games in Doha, Qatar.^[25]

Team roster

Group play----------------

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Japan judoka have qualified all fourteen quota places (seven in each gender) for the Games.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ryuju Nagayama	–60 kg		W 10–00	L 00–10	cosplay=1;	W 01–00	W 10–00
Hifumi Abe	–66 kg		W 10–00	W 10–00	W 01–00		W 10–00
Soichi Hashimoto	–73 kg		W 01–00	L 00–10		W 10–00	W 01–00
Takanori Nagase	–81 kg	W 10–00	W 01–00	W 01–00	W 10–00		W 11–00
Sanshiro Murao	–90 kg		W 10–00	W 10–00	W 11–00		L 01–10
Aaron Wolf	–100 kg	W 10–00	W 10–00	L 00–01		L 00–10	Did not advance
Tatsuru Saito	+100 kg		W 10–00	W 01–00	L 00–10		L 00–11	4

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Natsumi Tsunoda	–48 kg	W 11–00	W 11–00	W 10–00	W 10–00		W 01–00
Uta Abe	–52 kg	W 10–00	L 01–10	Did not advance
Haruka Funakubo	–57 kg	W 01–00	W 10–00	L 00–10		W 10–00	W 10–00
Miku Takaichi	–63 kg	W 10–00	L 00–01	Did not advance
Saki Niizoe	–70 kg		W 10–00	L 00–01		L 00–10	Did not advance
Rika Takayama	–78 kg		W 10–00	L 00–10		W 10–00	L 00–10	5
Akira Sone	+78 kg	W 10-00	W 01-00	L 00-01		DNS	Did not advance

MixedNations qualifying at least one athlete in the −57 (−48, −52 & −57), −70 (−57, −63 & −70) & +70 (−70, −78 & +78) weight categories for women, and at least one athlete in the −73 (−60, −66 & −73), −90 (−73, −81 & −90) & +90 (−90, −100 & +100) weight categories for men, would compete in the team event.

Modern pentathlon

See main article: Modern pentathlon at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Modern pentathlon at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Japanese modern pentathletes confirmed two quota place for Paris 2024. Taishu Sato and Misaki Uchida secured their spots in their respective gender events by virtue of top five eligible nation's through the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.^[26]

Athlete	Event	Fencing ranking round (Épée one touch)		Semifinal								Final
					Swimming (200 m freestyle)		Riding (Show jumping)		Shooting / Running (10 m laser pistol / 3000 m cross-country)		Total		Swimming		Riding (Show jumping)		Shooting / Running		Total
			MP points	Time	MP points		Time	MP points	Time	MP Points	MP points		Time	MP points	Time	MP points	Time	MP Points	Pts	Rank
Taishu Sato	Men's	21-14	230	2	2:04.93	301	61.80	300	10:18.02	682	1515	2	2:04.21	302	59.21	300	9:52.85	708	1542
Misaki Uchida	Women's	15-20	200	0	2:08.56	293	58.25	293	12:10.13	570	1356	Did not advance

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Rowing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Japanese rowers qualified boats in the following classes through the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, Serbia; and 2024 Asian & Oceania Qualification Regatta in Chungju, South Korea.

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ryuta Arakawa	Men's single sculls	6:51.59	2 QF	6:54.17	3 SA/B	6:51.13	4 FB	6:47.02	9
Naoki Furuta Masayuki Miyaura	Men's lightweight double sculls	6:52.58	5 R	7:04.48	5 FC	6:30.93				14
Emi Hirouchi Ayami Oishi	Women's lightweight double sculls	7:39.17	5 R	7:31.14	5 FC	7:14.00				15

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

See main article: Rugby sevens at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Summary

Team	Event	Pool round				Quarterfinal	Semifinal /	Final / /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Japan men's	Men's tournament	L 12–40	L 5–40	L 5–49	4		L 7–42	L 10–21	12
Japan women's	Women's tournament	L 7–36	L 0–49	W 39–12	3		W 15–12	W 38–7	9

Men's tournament

See main article: Rugby sevens at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament and Rugby sevens at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification. Japan national rugby sevens team qualified for the Olympics by winning the gold medal and securing an outright berth at the 2023 Asian Qualification Tournament in Osaka, Japan.^[27]

Team roster

Group stage

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9–12th place playoff semi-final----

Eleventh place match

Women's tournament

See main article: Rugby sevens at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament and Rugby sevens at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification. Japan women's national rugby sevens team qualified for the Olympics by winning the gold medal and securing an outright berth at the 2023 Asian Qualification Tournament in Osaka, Japan.^[27]

Team roster

Group stage

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9–12th place playoff semi-final----

Ninth place match

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Sailing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Japanese sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2023 Sailing World Championships, the class-associated Worlds, and the continental regattas.

Elimination events

Medal race events

Athlete	Event	Race																Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	M*
Misaki Tanaka Sera Nagamatsu	Women's 49erFX	4	12	4	14	12	11	14	16		13	19	11	EL	130	17
Keiju Okada Miho Yoshioka	Mixed 470	1	2	2	6	14	12	9	3		35
Shibuki Iitsuka Oura Nishida Capiglia	Mixed Nacra 17	17	17	19	17	17	17	10	17	19	11	7	11	EL	160	17

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

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Shooting at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Japanese shooters achieved quota places for the following events based on their results at the 2022 and 2023 ISSF World Championships, 2023 and 2024 Asian Championships, and 2024 ISSF World Olympic Qualification Tournament.^[28]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Naoya Okada	Men's 10 m air rifle	626.8	31	colspan=2 rowspan=4
Dai Yoshioka	Men's 25 m rapid fire pistol	572	28
Misaki Nobata	Women's 10 m air rifle	629.9	12
Naoya Okada Misaki Nobata	align=left	Mixed 10 m air rifle team	623.6	25

Skateboarding

See main article: Skateboarding at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Skateboarding at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Japan entered ten skateboarders (four males and six females) to compete in each of the following events at the Games.

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Yuro Nagahara	Park	81.38	15	Did not advance
Ginwoo Onodera	align=left rowspan=3	Street	177.08	14	Did not advance
Sora Shirai	270.42	3 Q	278.12	4
Yuto Horigome	270.18	4 Q	281.14

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Kokona Hiraki	align=left rowspan=3	Park	88.07	1 Q	92.63
Sakura Yosozumi	79.70	10	Did not advance
Hinano Kusaki	85.11	3 Q	69.76	8
Coco Yoshizawa	align=left rowspan=3	Street	258.92	1 Q	272.75
Liz Akama	257.99	2 Q	265.95
Funa Nakayama	245.52	5 Q	79.77	7

Sport climbing

See main article: Sport climbing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Sport climbing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Japan entered three sport climbers into the Olympic tournament. Tomoa Narasaki and Ai Mori qualified directly for the men's and women's boulder and lead combined event, by winning the bronze medal and securing one of the three berths available at the 2023 IFSC World Championships in Bern, Switzerland.^[29] Sorato Anraku qualified for the men's boulder and lead combined event by winning the Asian Qualifier in Jakarta, Indonesia.^[30]

Boulder & lead combined

Athlete	Event	Qualification							Final
		Boulder		Lead			Total	Rank	Boulder		Lead			Total	Rank
		Result	Place	Hold	Score	Place			Result	Place	Hold	Score	Place
Tomoa Narasaki	align=left rowspan=2	Men's	54.4	2		12.1	14	66.5	10	Did not advance						10
Sorato Anraku	69.0	1		68.1	2	137.1	1 Q	69.3	1		76.1	5	145.4
Ai Mori	Women's	54.0	11		96.1		150.1	4 Q	39.0	7		96.1	1	135.1	4
Miho Nonaka		64.4	7		51.1		115.5	9	Did not advance						9

Surfing

See main article: Surfing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Surfing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Japanese surfers confirmed four shortboard quota places (two male and one female) for Tahiti. Tokyo 2020 silver medalist Kanoa Igarashi and rookie Shino Matsuda topped the list of eligible surfers from Asia to secure the lone available berth in their respective shortboard races at the 2023 ISA World Surfing Games in Surf City, El Salvador,^{[31] [32]} while a second male Japanese surfer will soon be named to join the Japanese roster for Paris 2024, following his nation's successful triumph in the men's team event at the 2022 ISA World Surfing Games in Huntington Beach, California.^{[33] [34]}

Athlete	Event	Round 1		Round 2	Round 3	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Score	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Kanoa Igarashi	align=left rowspan=3	Men's shortboard	4.17	3 R2	W 13.87–7.00	L 7.04–17.40	Did not advance
Reo Inaba	12.76	1 R3		W 6.00–2.46	L 10.16-10.60	Did not advance
Connor O'Leary	9.93	2 R2	W 14.50–6.07	L 11.00–14.17	Did not advance
Shino Matsuda	Women's shortboard	11.16	2 R2	W 9.77–6.84	L 5.84-8.34	Did not advance

Qualification legend: R3 - Qualifies to elimination rounds; R2 - Qualifies to repechage round

Swimming

See main article: article, Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Japanese swimmers achieved the entry standards in the following events for Paris 2024 (a maximum of two swimmers under the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT) and potentially at the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT)):^[35] 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 World Aquatics A-cut at the Japanese Championships and Olympic Trials, scheduled for March 17 to 24, in Tokyo. Furthermore, Japanese swimmers must secure a direct slot on the Paris 2024 roster if they win a gold medal in any individual pool event at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships, scheduled for July 22 to 30, in Fukuoka.^[36]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Taishin Minamide	10 km open water	1:56:57.3	15
Katsuhiro Matsumoto	200 m freestyle	1:46.23	7	1:45.88	8	1:46.26	8
Riku Matsuyama	100 m backstroke	54.71	31	colspan="4"
Hidekazu Takehara	200 m backstroke	1:57.23	8	1:58.03	15	Did not advance
Taku Taniguchi	100 m breaststroke	1:00.20	19	colspan="4"
IIppei Watanabe	align=left rowspan=2	200 m breaststroke	2:09.86	5	2:09.62	5	2:08.83	6
Yu Hanaguruma	2:10.35	7	2:09.72	7	2:08.79	5
Katsuhiro Matsumoto	align=left rowspan=2	100 m butterfly	51.43	12 Q	51.69	15	colspan="2"
Naoki Mizunuma	51.62	15 Q	51.08	8 Q	51.11	8
Genki Terakado	align=left rowspan=2	200 m butterfly	1:55.82	13	1:56.21	15	colspan="2"
Tomoru Honda	1:57.30	22	colspan="4"
Daiya Seto	200 m individual medley	1:57.48	1	1:56.59	5	1:57.21	7
Tomoyuki Matsushita	400 m individual medley	4:11.18	5	4:08.62
Daiya Seto		4:10.92	3	4:11.78	7
Tatsuya Murasa Katsuhiro Matsumoto Hidenari Mano Konosuke Yanagimoto	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:08.43	8	7:07.48	7
Riku Matsumoto Taku Taniguchi Naoki Mizunuma Katsuhiro Matsumoto	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:34.84	14

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Airi Ebina	10 km open water	2:06:17.7	13
Mizuki Hirai	align=left rowspan=2	100 m butterfly	56.71	2	56.80	7	57.19	7
Rikako Ikee	57.82	14	57.59	11	colspan=2 rowspan=2
Satomi Suzuki	100 m breaststroke	1:06.04	4	1:06.90	12
Reona Aoki		1:06.98	19	colspan=4
Ageha Tanigawa	400 m individual medley	4:43.18	13	colspan="2"
Mio Narita		4:37.84	5	4:38.83	6
Waka Kobori	400 m freestyle	4:08.02	11	colspan="2"
Satomi Suzuki	200 m breaststroke	2:23.80	6	2:23.54	8	2:22.54	4
Airi Mitsui	align=left rowspan=2	200 m butterfly	2:09.12	9	2:08.71	11	colspan=2 rowspan=5
Hiroko Makino	2:10.79	15	2:09.16	13
Yui Ohashi	align=left rowspan=2	200 m individual medley	2:11.70	15 Q	2:10.94	12
Shiho Matsumoto	2:11.67	14 Q	2:11.85	14
Chihiro Igarashi Rio Shirai Nagisa Ikemoto Aoi Masuda	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:58.39	9	colspan=2
Rio Shirai Satomi Suzuki Mizuki Hirai Rikako Ikee	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:56.52	5	3:56.17	5

Table tennis

See main article: Table tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Table tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Japan entered a full squad of male and female table tennis player into the Games, by advancing to the quarter-finals round, through the 2024 World Team Table Tennis Championships in Busan, South Korea.^[37] Japan also entered one mixed doubles pair through the allocations of final world ranking.^{[38] [39]}

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Tomokazu Harimoto	align=left rowspan=2	Singles	W 4–0	W 4–2	W 4–1	L 3–4	colspan=3
Shunsuke Togami	W 4–0	W 4–2	L 0–4	colspan=4
Tomokazu Harimoto Hiroto Shinosuka Shunsuke Togami	Team	W 3–0	W 3–1	L 2–3	L 2–3	4

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Hina Hayata	align=left rowspan=2	Singles	W 4–0	W 4–0	W 4–0	W 4–3	L 0–4	W 4–2
Miu Hirano	< W 4–0	W 4–0	W 4–1	L 3–4	colspan=3
Hina Hayata Miu Hirano Miwa Harimoto	Team	W 3–0	W 3–0	W 3–1	L 0–3

Mixed

Tennis

See main article: Tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Japan entered four tennis players (two men and two women) into the Olympic tournament. Two men have guaranteed their participation as one of the top-56 eligible players in the ATP World Rankings, while two women did the same as the top-56 eligible players in the WTA World Rankings, which were completed on 10th June 2024.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Kei Nishikori	align=left rowspan="2"	Singles	L 1–6, 4–6	colspan=6 rowspan=2
Taro Daniel	L 5–7, 1–6
Taro Daniel Kei Nishikori	align=left	Men's doubles		L 6–2, 6–7^(5–7), [9–11]

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Naomi Osaka	align=left rowspan=2	Singles	L 5–7, 3–6	colspan=6 rowspan=2
Moyuka Uchijima	L 2–6, 1–6
Shuko Aoyama Ena Shibahara	align=left	Women's doubles		W 6–2, 6–3	L 5–7, 4–6

Mixed

Triathlon

See main article: Triathlon at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Triathlon at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Japan entered three triathletes (two men's and one women) in the triathlon events for Paris, following the release of final individual Olympics qualification ranking.

Individual

Athlete	Event	Time				Rank
		Swim (1.5 km)	Bike (40 km)	Run (10 km)	Total
Kenji Nener	align=left rowspan=2	Men's	20:36	51:58	31:13	1:45:02	15
Makoto Odakura	21:36	54:24	32:55	1:50:15	41
Yuko Takahashi	Women's	24:11	1:00:35	36:33	2:02:42	40

Volleyball

See main article: article and Volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Beach

See main article: Beach volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification. Japan women's pair qualified for Paris after winning the 2024 AVC Continental Cup Final in Ningbo, China.^[40]

Indoor

Summary

Team	Event	Group stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Japan men's	Men's tournament	L 2–3	W 3–1	L 1–3	3	L 2–3	7
Japan women's	Women's tournament	L 1–3	L 0–3	W 3–0	3	9

Men's tournament

See main article: article, Volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament and Volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification. Japan men's volleyball team qualified for Paris by securing an outright berth as one of the two highest-ranked nations at the Olympic Qualification Tournament in Tokyo, Japan.^[41]

Team roster

Group play--------

Quarterfinal

Women's tournament

See main article: Volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament. Japan women's volleyball team qualified for Paris 2024 as one of five highest ranked eligible team in the World Ranking qualification.^[42]

Team roster

Group play--------

Water polo

See main article: Water polo at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Summary

Men's tournament

See main article: Water polo at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament and Water polo at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification. Japan men's national water polo team qualified for the Olympics after winning the gold medal at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.^[43]

Team roster

Group play----------------

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Weightlifting at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Japan entered three weightlifters into the Olympic competition. Masanori Miyamoto (men's 73 kg), Eishiro Murakami (men's +102 kg) and Rira Suzuki (women's 49 kg) secured one of the top ten slots in their respective weight divisions based on the IWF Olympic Qualification Rankings.

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Masanori Miyamoto	Men's −73 kg	151	6	187	6	338	6
Rira Suzuki	Women's −49 kg	83	8	108	6	191	8
Eishiro Murakami	Men's +102 kg	180	10	220	10	400	10

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Wrestling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Japan qualified fourteen wrestlers for each of the following classes into the Olympic competition. Ten of them qualified for the games by virtue of top five results through the 2023 World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia;^{[44] [45]} meanwhile, the other three wrestlers qualified for the games, by virtue of their victory in their semifinal results, at the 2024 Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Yuri Nakazato received a spot due to the reallocations of Individual Neutral Athletes quotas.

Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Rei Higuchi	Men's −57 kg	W 5-0 ^VF	W 4-1 ^SP	W 10–0		W 4–2
Kotaro Kiyooka	Men's −65 kg	W 10–0	W 8–6	W 5–1		W 10–3
Daichi Takatani	Men's −74 kg	W 10–0	W 10–0	W 20–12		L 0–5
Hayato Ishiguro	Men's −86 kg	W 4–0 ^ST	L 1–4 ^SP	colspan=4
Yui Susaki	Women's −50 kg	L 1–3 ^PP	W 4–0 ^ST
Akari Fujinami	Women's −53 kg	W 5–0 ^VT	W 5–0 ^VT	W 4–0 ^ST		W 10–0 ^SP
Tsugumi Sakurai	Women's −57 kg	W 3–1 ^PP	W 11–0 ^VT	W 10–4		W 6–0
Sakura Motoki	Women's −62 kg	W 4–0^F	W 11–0	W 7–7^F		W 12–1
Nonoka Ozaki	Women's −68 kg	W 4–0 ^ST	L 1–3 ^PP		W 3–0 ^PO	W 3–0 ^PO
Yuka Kagami	Women's −76 kg	W 2–0 ^PO	W 3–0 ^PO	W 4–2 ^PP		W 3–1

Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Kenichiro Fumita	Men's −60 kg	W 4–1 ^SP	W 4–0 ^ST	W 3–1 ^PP		W 4–1 ^SP
Kyotaro Sogabe	Men's −67 kg	L 0–8 ^PO	colspan=5
Nao Kusaka	Men's −77 kg	W 4–0 ^ST	W 4–1 ^SP	W 3–1 ^PP		W 3–1 ^PP

See also

• Japan at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
• Japan at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics

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8. News: Jessica Fox and Joseph Clarke avenge for missed opportunities by taking K1 golds at 2023 Worlds, as K1 Olympic quotas are given out. 23 September 2023. International Olympic Committee. 24 September 2023.
9. News: Road cycling at París 2024: Quota distribution for next Olympic Games decided following publication of UCI World Ranking by Nations. 18 October 2023. International Olympic Committee. 20 October 2023.
10. News: UCI Urban Cycling World Championships: Roberts and Nakamura claim BMX Freestyle Park rainbow jerseys. UCI. 13 November 2022. 26 December 2022.
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23. Web site: 体操女子に激震 宮田笙子代表辞退で団体戦は「４人で戦わざるを得ない」と西村専務理事 怪我、病気以外での交代認められず. Shock to women's gymnastics: Shoko Miyata withdraws from team; "We have no choice but to compete with four people," says Executive Director Nishimura; substitutions not allowed except for injury or illness. ja. July 19, 2024. Yahoo! Japan.
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31. News: Gold Medals, Olympic Qualification and Incredible Surfing for 2023 Surf City El Salvador ISA World Surfing Games Finals Day. International Surfing Association. 7 June 2023. 9 June 2023.
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40. Web site: AUSTRALIA, JAPAN SECURE PARIS 2024 SPOTS AFTER TAKING MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TOP HONOURS IN AVC CONTINENTAL CUP FINALS . asianvolleyball.net. 24 June 2024 . 24 June 2024.
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43. News: Japan men and China women book tickets to Paris Olympics. World Aquatics. 8 October 2023. 10 October 2023.
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