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Sport in Japan

Here are details of sports, sporting events and sports people related to Japan. See also the list the most popular internet seaches for "sports" in Japan.


Major sports of Japan

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

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

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