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Japanese athletes have won 542 medals at the Summer Olympic Games (except art competitions), with the most gold medals won in judo, gymnastics, wrestling, and swimming, as of the end of the 2020 Summer Olympics. Japan has also won 76 medals at the Winter Olympic Games. Its most successful Olympics is the 2020 Games hosted in Tokyo.
Japan, the previous host of the 2020 Olympics at Tokyo, 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 ...
Japan will compete at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, from 6 to 22 February 2026, it will be the nation's 23rd appearance at the Winter Olympic Games, since 1928, except 1948, due to nation's role in World War II.
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. [1]
In an interview with Japanese broadcaster NHK in 2019, Osaka said she had a “special desire” to represent Japan at the Olympic Games: “I think that playing with the pride of the country will ...
Japanese Olympics may refer to: Japan at the Olympics; 1940 Summer Olympics, awarded to Tokyo, moved to Helsinki first, then cancelled due to World War II; 1964 Summer Olympics, held in Tokyo, Japan; 1972 Winter Olympics, held in Sapporo, Japan; 1998 Winter Olympics, held in Nagano, Japan; Tokyo bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics
Uta Abe's loss was another early blow for Japan's vaunted judo team, which won nine gold medals and 12 total medals in this Japanese-born sport three years ago at its home Olympics. Natsumi ...
The International Olympic Committee's three major Japanese sponsors — Toyota, Panasonic and Bridgestone — are terminating their contracts. Japanese sponsors have turned away from the Olympics ...