Sport in Japan

Major sports of Japan

• Football (Soccer)
• Baseball
• Sumo
• Golf
• Volleyball
• Karate

Japan Sporting Success

Athletes from Japan

• Sadaharu Oh (baseball)
• Matsui Hideki
• Naoko Takahashi (athletics)
• Ichiro Suzuki(baseball)
• Jumbo Ozaki
• Kunishige Kamamoto (football)
• Musashimaru
• Taiho Koki (sumo)
• Masahiko Kimura (judo)

Japan Sports trivia

• Japan was first selected to host the 1940 Olympic Games, but it was taken off them when WWII started.

Japan at major events

• Japan at the Summer Olympics
• Japan at the FIFA World Cup
• Japan at the AFC Asian Cup

Past sporting events hosted in Japan

• 1964 Olympic Games summer hosts Tokyo
• 1972 Winter Olympic Games hosts Sapporo,
• 1998 Winter Olympic Games hosts Nagano
• 2001 East Asian Games host, held in Osaka.
• 2001 World Swimming Championships Fukuoka
• 2002 FIFA World Cup was hosted in Japan & South Korea

Upcoming sporting events in Japan

Annual sporting events held in Japan

• J-league (football)

Sporting Facilities in Japan

• Olympic Stadium, Tokyo

Other

• sports videos tagged with ' Japan '
• Japan participates in the East Asian Games.