# Japan at the 1932 Summer Olympics

The Empire of Japan competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. 131 athletes competed in 10 sports and also participated in art competitions.
Swimming became the most successful sport after collecting five gold medals, five silver medals and also two bronze medals. Takeichi Nishi also performed stunningly in equestrian and won Japan's first gold medal in the sport. The field hockey team also competed with two other teams from the United States and India, and won a silver medal.
With so many teams, Japan's delegation was the second largest, exceeded only by the United States.

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event | Date |
| Gold | Chuhei Nambu | Athletics | Men's triple jump | August 4 |
| Gold | Yasuji Miyazaki | Swimming | Men's 100 m freestyle | August 7 |
| Gold | Yasuji Miyazaki Masanori Yusa Takashi Yokoyama Hisakichi Toyoda | Swimming | Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay | August 9 |
| Gold | Masaji Kiyokawa | Swimming | Men's 100 m backstroke | August 12 |
| Gold | Yoshiyuki Tsuruta | Swimming | Men's 200 m breaststroke | August 13 |
| Gold | Kusuo Kitamura | Swimming | Men's 1500 m freestyle | August 13 |
| Gold | Takeichi Nishi | Equestrian | Individual jumping | August 14 |
| Silver | Shuhei Nishida | Athletics | Men's pole vault | August 3 |
| Silver | Tatsugo Kawaishi | Swimming | Men's 100 m freestyle | August 7 |
| Silver | Hideko Maehata | Swimming | Women's 200 m breaststroke | August 9 |
| Silver | Shunkichi Hamada Junzo Inohara Sadayoshi Kobayashi Haruhiko Kon Kenichi Konishi Hiroshi Nagata Eiichi Nakamura Yoshio Sakai Katsumi Shibata Toshio Usami | Field hockey | Tournaments | August 11 |
| Silver | Toshio Irie | Swimming | Men's 100 m backstroke | August 12 |
| Silver | Reizo Koike | Swimming | Men's 200 m breaststroke | August 13 |
| Silver | Shozo Makino | Swimming | Men's 1500 m freestyle | August 13 |
| Bronze | Chuhei Nambu | Athletics | Men's long jump | August 2 |
| Bronze | Kenkichi Oshima | Athletics | Men's triple jump | August 4 |
| Bronze | Tsutomu Ōyokota | Swimming | Men's 400 m freestyle | August 10 |
| Bronze | Kentaro Kawatsu | Swimming | Men's 100 m backstroke | August 12 |
Medals by sport :
| Sport | | | | Total |
| Swimming | 5 | 5 | 2 | 12 |
| Athletics | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Equestrian | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Field hockey | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 7 | 7 | 4 | 18 |

## Aquatics
### Swimming
### Diving

* Men's 3 metre springboard
* Kazuo Kobayashi - 133.76(6th Place)
* Tetsutaro Namae - 125.18(8th Place)
* Men's 10 metre platform
* Hidekatsu Ishida - 75.92(8th Place)
* Women's 3 metre springboard
* Etsuko Kamakura - 60.78(7th Place)
* Women's 10 metre platform
* Etsuko Kamakura - 31.36(6th Place)

### Water polo

* 7 August
| United States | 10 – 0 | Japan |
* 8 August
| Hungary | 18 – 0 | Japan |
* 12 August
| Germany | 10 – 0 | Japan |

### Final standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | HUN | GER | USA | JPN |
| | Hungary (HUN) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 2 | +29 | 6 | | 6–2 | 7–0 | 18–0 |
| | Germany (GER) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 10 | +6 | 3 | 2–6 | | 4–4 | 10–0 |
| | United States (USA) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 11 | +3 | 3 | 0–7 | 4–4 | | 10–0 |
| 4 | Japan (JPN) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 38 | −38 | 0 | 0–18 | 0–10 | 0–10 | |

## Field hockey
### Standings

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| India | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 2 | +33 | 2 |
| Japan | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 13 | −3 | 1 |
| United States (H) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 33 | −30 | 0 |

### Matches

* 4 August 1932
| India | 11–1 | Japan |
| Roop Singh(3) Kullar(3) Carr (1) Chand (4) | | Inohara(1) |
* 8 August 1932
| Japan | 9–2 | United States |
| Inohara(4) | | |

## Rowing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Heats | Heats | Repechage | Repechage | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Rokuro Takahashi Norio Ban Umetaro Shibata Daikichi Suzuki Shokichi Nanba | Coxed four | 7:16.8 | 3 R | 7:47.0 | 4 | Did not advance | 6 |
| Yoshio Enomoto Shigeo Fujiwara Saburo Hara Kenzo Ikeda Setsuo Matsura Taro Nishidono Hidemitsu Tanaka Setsuji Tanaka Toshi Sano | Eight | 6:43.4 | 3 R | 7:22.6 | 3 | Did not advance | 7 |