# Japan at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Japan competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.
As Sapporo would be the host city for the following Winter Olympics, the flag of Japan was raised at the closing ceremony.

## Alpine skiing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Juichi Maruyama | Downhill | | | | | 2:19.33 | 64 |
| Hitonari Maruyama | Downhill | | | | | 2:18.04 | 59 |
| Yoshiharu Fukuhara | Downhill | | | | | 2:14.09 | 54 |
| Tsuneo Noto | Downhill | | | | | 2:10.32 | 45 |
| Yoshinari Kida | Giant Slalom | DSQ | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
| Yoshiharu Fukuhara | Giant Slalom | 1:53.96 | 51 | 1:58.01 | 56 | 3:51.97 | 50 |
| Tomio Sasaki | Giant Slalom | 1:53.16 | 46 | 1:56.99 | 51 | 3:50.15 | 47 |
| Tsuneo Noto | Giant Slalom | 1:52.55 | 43 | 1:54.10 | 40 | 3:46.65 | 40 |

### Men's slalom

| Athlete | Heat 1 | Heat 1 | Heat 2 | Heat 2 | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time 1 | Rank | Time 2 | Rank | Total | Rank |
| Tsuneo Noto | DNF | – | 56.60 | 2 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| Yoshiharu Fukuhara | DSQ | – | 56.82 | 2 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| Yoshinari Kida | DSQ | – | 57.87 | 2 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| Tomio Sasaki | 55.98 | 4 | 56.62 | 2 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Mihoko Otsue | Downhill | | | | | 1:51.60 | 34 |
| Mihoko Otsue | Giant Slalom | | | | | 2:10.56 | 36 |
| Mihoko Otsue | Slalom | 46.78 | 26 | 1:04.59 | 31 | 1:51.37 | 31 |

## Biathlon
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Time | Penalties | Adjusted time $^1$ | Rank |
| 20 km | Hajime Yoshimura | 1'23:05.5 | 9 | 1'32:05.5 | 43 |
| 20 km | Shozo Okuyama | 1'21:51.0 | 7 | 1'28:51.0 | 34 |
| 20 km | Isao Ono | 1'20:47.8 | 8 | 1'28:47.8 | 33 |
| 20 km | Miki Shibuya | 1'21:37.1 | 6 | 1'27:37.1 | 28 |
    $^1$ One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

### Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Misses $^2$ | Time | Rank |
| Isao Ono Miki Shibuya Shozo Okuyama Hajime Yoshimura | 9 | 2'35:21.0 | 13 |
    $^2$ A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.

## Cross-country skiing
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 15 km | Kazuo Sato | DNF | – |
| 15 km | Hiroshi Ogawa | 59:55.4 | 65 |
| 15 km | Akiyoshi Matsuoka | 54:46.2 | 53 |
| 15 km | Tokio Sato | 53:41.2 | 50 |
| 30 km | Kazuo Sato | 1'46:12.4 | 45 |
| 30 km | Tokio Sato | 1'43:13.8 | 33 |
| 50 km | Sotoo Okushiba | 2'45:09.4 | 38 |
| 50 km | Tokio Sato | 2'40:00.5 | 29 |

### Men's 4 × 10 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Tokio Sato Sotoo Okushiba Kazuo Sato Akiyoshi Matsuoka | 2'20:54.8 | 10 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 5 km | Fujiko Kato | 18:28.2 | 32 |
| 10 km | Fujiko Kato | 40:40.0 | 23 |

## Figure skating
### Men

| Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Yutaka Higuchi | 23 | 26 | 1529.6 | 218 | 25 |
| Tsuguhiko Kozuka | 24 | 19 | 1584.0 | 189 | 21 |

### Women

| Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Haruko Ishida | 18 | 25 | 1552.7 | 218 | 26 |
| Kazumi Yamashita | 15 | 14 | 1639.0 | 139 | 14 |
| Kumiko Okawa | 8 | 5 | 1763.6 | 61 | 8 |

## Ice hockey
### Consolation round

Teams in this group play for 9th-14th places. Japan entered in this round, from the start they did not play for a medal.
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
| 9 | Yugoslavia | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 9 | 10 |
| 10 | Japan | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 12 | 8 |
| 11 | Norway | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 15 | 6 |
| 12 | Romania | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 23 | 4 |
| 13 | Austria | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 27 | 2 |
| 14 | France | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 32 | 0 |
Yugoslavia – Japan 5:1 (2:0, 0:0, 3:1) Goalscorers: Tisler 2, Beravs, Felc, Mlakar – Iwamoto.
Japan – Norway 4:0 (2:0, 2:0, 0:0) Goalscorers: Okajima 2, Ebina, Araki.
Japan – Romania 5:4 (3:0, 1:3, 1:1) Goalscorers: Hikigi 2, Araki, Itoh, Kudo – Florescu, Pana, Mois, Ionescu.
Japan – Austria 11:1 (1:0, 6:0, 4:1) Goalscorers: Itoh 2, Okajima 2, Hikigi 2, Araki, Kudo, Takashima, Toriyabe, Iwamoto – Puschnig.
France – Japan 2:6 (0:0, 0:4, 2:2) Goalscorers: Mazza, Faucomprez – Ebina 2, Hikigi, Itoh, Okajima, Araki.

### Contestants

10. JAPAN Goaltenders: Kazudži Morišima, Tošimitsu Ótsubo Defence: Isao Asai, Mičihiro Sató, Hisaši Kasai, Toru Itabaši, Takaaki Kaneiri, Kendži Toriyanbe. Forwards: Mamoru Takašima, Kimihisa Kudó, Kodži Iwamoto, Takao Hikigi, Toru Okadžima, Minoru Itó, Takeši Akiba, Yutaka Ebina, Kazuo Matsuda, Nobuhiro Araki.

## Nordic combined

Events:
* normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
* 15 km cross-country skiing
| Athlete | Event | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Cross-country | Cross-country | Cross-country | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance 1 | Distance 2 | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Masatoshi Suto | Individual | 62.0 | 66.0 | 183.0 | 30 | 53:32.6 | 176.03 | 31 | 359.03 | 31 |
| Katsutoshi Okubo | Individual | 66.0 | 69.5 | 194.8 | 23 | 52:33.1 | 187.43 | 26 | 382.23 | 24 |
| Akemi Taniguchi | Individual | 73.0 | 72.5 | 224.4 | 4 | 55:04.5 | 158.74 | 39 | 383.14 | 23 |
| Hiroshi Itagaki | Individual | 73.5 | 76.0 | 237.4 | 2 | 53:26.2 | 177.25 | 29 | 414.65 | 10 |

## Ski jumping

| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Jump 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank |
| Yukio Kasaya | Normal hill | 71.0 | 95.4 | 72.0 | 101.0 | 196.4 | 23 |
| Takashi Fujisawa | Normal hill | 73.0 | 100.6 | 71.0 | 93.9 | 194.5 | 26 |
| Masakatsu Asari | Normal hill | 72.5 | 100.8 | 59.5 | 69.0 | 169.8 | 47 |
| Akitsugu Konno | Normal hill | 72.5 | 101.3 | 69.5 | 95.0 | 196.3 | 24 |
| Seiji Aochi | Large hill | 90.5 | 94.6 | 87.5 | 90.4 | 185.0 | 26 |
| Akitsugu Konno | Large hill | 91.5 | 95.5 | 90.5 | 95.6 | 191.1 | 20 |
| Yukio Kasaya | Large hill | 91.0 | 97.3 | 88.5 | 93.8 | 191.1 | 20 |
| Takashi Fujisawa | Large hill | 101.0 | 116.8 | 82.5 | 75.9 | 192.7 | 18 |

## Speed skating
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Takayuki Hida | 42.9 | 37 |
| 500 m | Tamio Dejima | 42.6 | 33 |
| 500 m | Masaki Suzuki | 41.2 | 15 |
| 500 m | Keiichi Suzuki | 40.8 | 8 |
| 1500 m | Masaki Suzuki | 2:14.8 | 40 |
| 1500 m | Mutsuhiko Maeda | 2:14.8 | 40 |
| 1500 m | Keiichi Suzuki | 2:13.1 | 31 |
| 1500 m | Tadao Ishihata | 2:12.7 | 30 |
| 5000 m | Mutsuhiko Maeda | 8:08.3 | 33 |
| 5000 m | Tadao Ishihata | 7:55.8 | 22 |
| 5000 m | Yoshiaki Demachi | 7:55.6 | 21 |
| 10,000 m | Hirofumi Otsuka | 17:38.8 | 28 |
| 10,000 m | Yoshiaki Demachi | 16:54.6 | 22 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Sachiko Saito | DNF | – |
| 500 m | Kaname Ide | 50.0 | 27 |
| 500 m | Misae Takeda | 49.4 | 25 |
| 1000 m | Sachiko Saito | 1:41.0 | 26 |
| 1000 m | Misae Takeda | 1:40.4 | 25 |
| 1500 m | Jitsuko Saito | 2:36.6 | 26 |
| 1500 m | Kaname Ide | 2:34.2 | 23 |
| 1500 m | Sachiko Saito | 2:31.4 | 18 |
| 3000 m | Kaname Ide | 5:27.9 | 21 |
| 3000 m | Jitsuko Saito | 5:27.8 | 20 |