| Event: | Water polo |
| Games: | 1962 Asian Games |
| Venue: | Senayan Swimming Stadium |
| Dates: | 28 August – 1 September 1962 |
| Nations: | 4 |
| Prev: | 1958 |
| Next: | 1966 |
Water polo was contested only for men at the 1962 Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia from 28 August to 1 September 1962 at the Senayan Swimming Stadium.
Japan won the gold medal in round robin competition, Indonesia finished second and Singapore finished on the bronze medal position to complete the podium.
| Men | valign=top | Hachiro Arakawa Shigenobu Fujimoto Norihide Iida Hiroshi Inoue Mineo Kato Yoji Shimizu Koki Takagi Kazuya Takeuchi Toru Takubo Takashi Yokoyama | valign=top | Lionel Chee Gan Eng Guan Gan Eng Teck Robert Khoo Lim Teck Pan Oei Boon Khwee Pang Tee Ann Quek Soo Kee Tan Eng Bock Thio Gim Hock Eric Yeo |
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| width=40 | Rank | width=180 | Team | width=30 | width=30 | width=30 | width=30 | ||||
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| 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||
| 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |