# Japan at the 2022 Asian Para Games

Japan participated at the 2022 Asian Para Games in Hangzhou, China from 22 to 28 October 2023. Originally scheduled to take place from 9 to 15 October 2022, the event was postponed to 2023 on 17 May 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Japan sent 259 athletes to the game, consisting of 153 men and 106 women, and competed in 20 out of 22 events, excepting only Chess and Go. Japanese athletes won a total of 150 medals - 42 gold medals, 49 silver medals and 59 bronze medals and finished third at the medal table after China and Iran.
The Japanese team entered the opening ceremony in twelfth place, and were led into the stadium by flag bearer, women’s seated volleyball player Mike Hata. The closing ceremony flag-bearer for the Japanese delegation was Aira Kinoshita, who won three gold medals and two silver medals in swimming events at the games.

## Background
### Qualification for Paris

The games were seen as especially important for some Japanese athletes, such as the wheelchair tennis players, since winning gold medals in these games secured those athletes a place in the 2024 Paris Paralympics. In the event, Japan dominated the wheelchair tennis, winning a clean sweep in the men’s singles, Tokita Oda taking gold, Takashi Sanada silver, and Takuya Miki bronze. With his gold, Oda won the coveted Paris spot. Japan also won gold in the women’s singles, quad singles, and all three women’s, men’s and quad doubles golds, with Yui Kamiji gaining a Paris qualifying spot with her women’s singles win.
Other athletes securing Paris qualifying spots included Mika Mizuta for SH2 R5 mixed 10m prone air rifle, and Kazuya Okada for SH1 R3 mixed 10m prone air rifle, as well as Katsuyoshi Yagi for men’s class 7 table tennis, and Natsuki Wada for women’s class 11 table tennis.

### Records

Keigo Oshima set a new Asian record in the men’s 100m (T64) sprint with a time of 11.27 seconds.
Reina Hori set a new Asian record for women’s shot putt (F20) with a distance of 11m93cm.
The mixed 4x100m swimming relay team set a new Asian record with a time of 3 minutes 53.63 seconds.
Keiko Sugiura set two new Asian Para Games records - a new record in the women’s C3 class 3000m individual pursuit, and a new record of 39.995 seconds in the women’s C3 class 500m time trial.

## Competitors

| Sport | Men | Women | Total |
| Archery | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Athletics | 27 | 18 | 45 |
| Badminton | 7 | 8 | 15 |
| Blind football | 8 | — | 8 |
| Boccia | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| Canoeing | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| Cycling | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Goalball | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| Judo | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| Lawn bowls | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Powerlifting | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| Rowing | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Shooting | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Sitting volleyball | 8 | 11 | 19 |
| Swimming | 26 | 17 | 43 |
| Table tennis | 14 | 5 | 19 |
| Taekwondo | 4 | — | 4 |
| Wheelchair basketball | 12 | 12 | 24 |
| Wheelchair fencing | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Wheelchair tennis | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| Total | 153 | 106 | 259 |

## Medalists

The following Japan competitors won medals at the Games.
| Medal | Name | Sport | Event | Date |
| Gold | Reina Hori | Athletics | Women's shot put F20 | 23 October |
| Gold | Shunsuke Itani | Athletics | Men's 200 m T64 | 23 October |
| Gold | Aira Kinoshita | Swimming | Women's 200 m freestyle S14 | 23 October |
| Gold | Tatsuya Ito | Athletics | Men's 100 m T52 | 24 October |
| Gold | Junko Hirose | Judo | Women's -57 kg J2 | 24 October |
| Gold | Takayuki Suzuki | Swimming | Men's 100 m freestyle S4 | 24 October |
| Gold | Uchu Tomita | Swimming | Men's 400 m freestyle S11 | 24 October |
| Gold | Naohide Yamaguchi | Swimming | Men's 100 m backstroke S14 | 24 October |
| Gold | Akito Minai | Swimming | Men's 200 m individual medley SM10 | 24 October |
| Gold | Kota Kubota | Swimming | Men's 100 m backstroke S8 | 24 October |
| Gold | Keiichi Kimura | Swimming | Men's 100 m butterfly S11 | 24 October |
| Gold | Naohide Yamaguchi Aira Kinoshita Mami Inoue Keichi Nakajima | Swimming | Mixed 4x100 m relay S14 | 24 October |
| Gold | Shota Kawamoto | Cycling | Men's 3000 m individual pursuit C2 | 25 October |
| Gold | Masaki Fujita | Cycling | Men's 3000 m individual pursuit C3 | 25 October |
| Gold | Natsuki Wada | Table tennis | Women's singles Class 11 | 25 October |
| Gold | Katsuyoshi Yagi | Table tennis | Men's singles Class 7 | 25 October |
| Gold | Daisuke Ishito Koji Sugeno | Wheelchair tennis | Quad doubles | 25 October |
| Gold | Yui Kamiji Manami Tanaka | Wheelchair tennis | Women's doubles | 25 October |
| Gold | Naohide Yamaguchi | Swimming | Men's 100 m breaststroke SB14 | 25 October |
| Gold | Mikika Serizawa | Swimming | Women's 100 m breaststroke SB14 | 25 October |
| Gold | Sonomi Sakai | Athletics | Women's long jump T20 | 26 October |
| Gold | Koji Sugeno | Wheelchair tennis | Quad singles | 26 October |
| Gold | Yui Kamiji | Wheelchair tennis | Women's singles | 26 October |
| Gold | Kengo Oshima | Athletics | Men's 100 m T64 | 26 October |
| Gold | Saki Takakuwa | Athletics | Women's 100 m T63/64 | 26 October |
| Gold | Masaki Fujita | Cycling | Men's time trial C1-3 | 26 October |
| Gold | Uchu Tomita | Swimming | Men's 200 m individual medley SM11 | 26 October |
| Gold | Anku Matsuda | Swimming | Men's 100 m butterfly S14 | 26 October |
| Gold | Sarina Satomi | Badminton | Women's singles WH1 | 26 October |
| Gold | Kanon Fukuda | Swimming | Women's 100 m breaststroke SB8 | 26 October |
| Gold | Daiki Kajiwara | Badminton | Men's singles WH2 | 27 October |
| Gold | Tokito Oda | Wheelchair tennis | Men's singles | 27 October |
| Gold | Hiroaki Kozai Koki Maruyama Ryohei Miyamoto Naohiro Murakami Yoshinobu Takamatsu Ryuga Akaishi Kei Akita Renshi Chokai Takuya Furusawa Shota Horiuchi Akinobu Ito Rin Kawahara | Wheelchair basketball | Men's tournament | 27 October |
| Gold | Naohide Yamaguchi | Swimming | Men's 200 m individual medley SM14 | 27 October |
| Gold | Aira Kinoshita | Swimming | Women's 200 m individual medley SM14 | 27 October |
| Gold | An Nishida | Swimming | Women's 50 m butterfly S7 | 27 October |
| Gold | Akito Minai | Swimming | Men's 400 m freestyle S9 | 27 October |
| Gold | Takayuki Suzuki | Swimming | Men's 50 m freestyle S4 | 27 October |
| Gold | Taiyo Kawabuchi | Swimming | Men's 100 m butterfly S10 | 27 October |
| Gold | Hajime Kondo | Athletics | Men's long jump T63 | 28 October |
| Gold | Kenta Okawachi | Athletics | Men's 1500 m T20 | 28 October |
| Gold | Moeko Yamamoto | Athletics | Women's 1500 m T20 | 28 October |
| Silver | Monika Seryu | Canoeing | Women's KL1 | 23 October |
| Silver | Kengo Oshima | Athletics | Men's 200 m T64 | 23 October |
| Silver | Mana Sasaki | Athletics | Women's 100 m T13 | 23 October |
| Silver | Keiko Sugiura | Cycling | Women's 3000 m individual pursuit C1-3 | 23 October |
| Silver | Shizuka Hangai | Judo | Women's -48 kg J1 | 23 October |
| Silver | Keiichi Kimura | Swimming | Men's 50 m freestyle S11 | 23 October |
| Silver | Mitsuya Tanaka | Taekwondo | Men's -58 kg K44 | 23 October |
| Silver | Haruka Kitaura | Athletics | Women's 800 m T34 | 24 October |
| Silver | Minako Tsuchiya | Judo | Women's -70 kg J1 | 24 October |
| Silver | Genki Saito | Swimming | Men's 400 m freestyle S13 | 24 October |
| Silver | Aira Kinoshita | Swimming | Women's 100 m backstroke S14 | 24 October |
| Silver | Taiyo Kawabuchi | Swimming | Men's 200 m individual medley SM9 | 24 October |
| Silver | Uchu Tomita | Swimming | Men's 100 m butterfly S11 | 24 October |
| Silver | Takeru Matsumoto | Athletics | Men's 400 m T36 | 25 October |
| Silver | Koyo Iwabuchi | Table tennis | Men's singles Class 9 | 25 October |
| Silver | Mahiro Funayama | Table tennis | Men's singles Class 10 | 25 October |
| Silver | Takeshi Takemori | Table tennis | Men's singles Class 11 | 25 October |
| Silver | Yuri Tomono | Table tennis | Women's singles Class 8 | 25 October |
| Silver | Keiichi Kimura | Swimming | Men's 100 m breaststroke SB11 | 25 October |
| Silver | Eigo Tanaka Takayuki Suzuki Mami Inoue Keichi Nakajima | Swimming | Mixed 4x50 m medley relay | 25 October |
| Silver | Akito Minai | Swimming | Men's 100 m freestyle S10 | 25 October |
| Silver | Yamato Shimbo | Athletics | Men's discus throw F37 | 26 October |
| Silver | Haruka Kitaura | Athletics | Women's 100 m T34 | 26 October |
| Silver | Rio Kawaguchi | Athletics | Women's long jump T20 | 26 October |
| Silver | Daisuke Ishito | Wheelchair tennis | Quad singles | 26 October |
| Silver | Kakeru Ishida | Athletics | Men's 100 m T47 | 26 October |
| Silver | Shunsuke Itani | Athletics | Men's 100 m T64 | 26 October |
| Silver | Keiichi Kimura | Swimming | Men's 200 m individual medley SM11 | 26 October |
| Silver | Aira Kinoshita | Swimming | Women's 100 m butterfly S14 | 26 October |
| Silver | Onta Uezono | Swimming | Men's 100 m backstroke S10 | 26 October |
| Silver | Mikuni Utsugi | Swimming | Women's 100 m breaststroke SB8 | 26 October |
| Silver | Kota Kubota Mikuni Utsugi Taiyo Kawabuchi Kanon Fukuda | Swimming | Mixed 4x100 medley relay | 26 October |
| Silver | Mayo Hagino Mari Amimoto Mayumi Tsuchida Chihiro Kitada Miho Otsu Chinami Shimizu Hotaru Tatsuoka Kotone Usui Amane Yanagimoto Izumi Zaima Chihiro Furuya Yui Ishikawa | Wheelchair basketball | Women's tournament | 26 October |
| Silver | Hirokazu Ueyonabaru | Athletics | Men's 400 m T52 | 27 October |
| Silver | Tomohiro Ueyama | Archery | Men's recurve individual | 27 October |
| Silver | Kazuya Kaneko Yuto Sano Yuta Kawashima Koji Miyajiki Yuji Taguchi Haruki Torii | Goalball | Men's tournament | 27 October |
| Silver | Eiko Kakehata Masae Komiya Yuki Temma Minami Arai Rieko Takahashi Norika Hagiwara | Goalball | Women's tournament | 27 October |
| Silver | Sarina Satomi Yuma Yamazaki | Badminton | Women's doubles WH1-WH2 | 27 October |
| Silver | Takashi Sanada | Wheelchair tennis | Men's singles | 27 October |
| Silver | Uchu Tomita | Swimming | Men's 100 m freestyle S12 | 27 October |
| Silver | Daiki Kubo | Swimming | Men's 100 m butterfly S10 | 27 October |
| Silver | Mikuni Utsugi | Swimming | Women's 100 m backstroke S9 | 27 October |
| Silver | Genki Saito | Swimming | Men's 200 m individual medley SM13 | 27 October |
| Silver | Kotaro Ogiwara Kota Kubota Kanon Fukuda Mikuni Utsugi | Swimming | Mixed 4x100 m freestyle relay | 27 October |
| Silver | Daisuke Nakagawa | Athletics | Men's 1500 m T20 | 28 October |
| Silver | Kohji Oyama | Archery | Men's open W1 | 28 October |
| Silver | Misaki Ari | Athletics | Women's 1500 m T20 | 28 October |
| Silver | Takeshi Takemori Koya Kato | Table tennis | Men's doubles Class 22 | 28 October |
| Silver | Koyo Iwabuchi Hayuma Abe | Table tennis | Men's doubles Class 18 | 28 October |
| Silver | Kanami Furukawa Maki Ito | Table tennis | Women's doubles Class 22 | 28 October |
| Bronze | Saki Komatsu | Canoeing | Women's VL2 | 23 October |
| Bronze | Hiromi Tatsumi | Canoeing | Men's KL2 | 23 October |
| Bronze | Yuka Takamatsu | Athletics | Women's 400 m T37/38 | 23 October |
| Bronze | Keiko Onidani | Athletics | Women's discus throw F53 | 23 October |
| Bronze | Tomomi Ishiura | Swimming | Women's 50 m freestyle S11 | 23 October |
| Bronze | Ema Maeda | Swimming | Women's 100 m breaststroke SB9 | 23 October |
| Bronze | Mami Inoue | Swimming | Women's 200 m freestyle S14 | 23 October |
| Bronze | Tae Kawabe | Swimming | Women's 50 m freestyle S10 | 23 October |
| Bronze | Akito Minai | Swimming | Men's 50 m freestyle S10 | 23 October |
| Bronze | Daiki Ishiyama | Athletics | Men's 100 m T12 | 24 October |
| Bronze | Niina Kanno | Athletics | Women's 400 m T20 | 24 October |
| Bronze | Daiki Ishiyama | Athletics | Men's long jump T12 | 24 October |
| Bronze | Shota Kawamoto | Cycling | Men's 1000 m time trial C1-3 | 24 October |
| Bronze | Keiko Sugiura | Cycling | Women's 500 m time trial C1-3 | 24 October |
| Bronze | Yujiro Seto | Judo | Men's -73 kg J2 | 24 October |
| Bronze | Shunsuke Kudo | Taekwondo | Men's -70 kg K44 | 24 October |
| Bronze | Maori Yui | Swimming | Women's 200 m freestyle S5 | 24 October |
| Bronze | Yuta Wakoh | Athletics | Men's javelin throw F13 | 24 October |
| Bronze | Kanon Fukuda | Swimming | Women's 200 m individual medley SM9 | 24 October |
| Bronze | Kotaro Ogiwara | Swimming | Men's 100 m backstroke S8 | 24 October |
| Bronze | Masayuki Arita | Boccia | Men's individual BC3 | 25 October |
| Bronze | Anri Sakurai | Wheelchair fencing | Women's individual épée | 25 October |
| Bronze | Kazuki Shichino | Table tennis | Men's singles Class 4 | 25 October |
| Bronze | Takuro Chihara | Table tennis | Men's singles Class 6 | 25 October |
| Bronze | Nozomi Nakamura | Table tennis | Women's singles Class 10 | 25 October |
| Bronze | Kanami Furukawa | Table tennis | Women's singles Class 11 | 25 October |
| Bronze | Yuto Sato | Swimming | Men's 100 m breaststroke SB14 | 25 October |
| Bronze | Taiyo Kawabuchi | Swimming | Men's 100 m butterfly S9 | 25 October |
| Bronze | Moe Onodera | Athletics | Women's 100 m T34 | 26 October |
| Bronze | Daisuke Fujihara | Badminton | Men's singles SL3 | 26 October |
| Bronze | Genki Saito | Swimming | Men's 100 m backstroke S13 | 26 October |
| Bronze | Kotone Matsunaga | Swimming | Women's 100 m backstroke S10 | 26 October |
| Bronze | Chika Shigesada Tomohiro Ueyama | Archery | Mixed team recurve | 26 October |
| Bronze | Takuya Miki Takashi Sanada | Wheelchair tennis | Men's doubles | 26 October |
| Bronze | Mamiko Toyoda | Badminton | Women's singles SU5 | 26 October |
| Bronze | Keiko Sugiura | Cycling | Women's time trial C1-3 | 26 October |
| Bronze | Shota Kawamoto | Cycling | Men's time trial C1-3 | 26 October |
| Bronze | Kanon Fukuda | Swimming | Women's 100 m freestyle S9 | 26 October |
| Bronze | Michinobu Fujita Shintaro Kano Naoki Yasu Akira Tsunoda | Wheelchair fencing | Men's team foil | 26 October |
| Bronze | Keichi Nakajima | Swimming | Men's 100 m butterfly S14 | 26 October |
| Bronze | Mami Inoue | Swimming | Women's 100 m butterfly S14 | 26 October |
| Bronze | Takeru Matsumoto | Athletics | Men's 100 m T36 | 27 October |
| Bronze | Takafumi Igusa | Athletics | Men's 1500 m T38 | 27 October |
| Bronze | Koto Matayoshi | Athletics | Men's long jump T64 | 27 October |
| Bronze | Mamiko Toyoda | Badminton | Women's singles SU5 | 27 October |
| Bronze | Daisuke Fujihara | Badminton | Men's singles SL3 | 27 October |
| Bronze | Masaki Fujita | Cycling | Men's road race C1-3 | 27 October |
| Bronze | Mika Mizuta | Shooting | Mixed 10 m air rifle prone SH2 | 27 October |
| Bronze | Genki Saito Kazuki Shichino | Table tennis | Men's doubles Class 8 | 27 October |
| Bronze | Nozomi Nakamura Yuri Tomono | Table tennis | Women's doubles Class 20 | 27 October |
| Bronze | Kanami Furukawa Takashi Asano | Table tennis | Mixed doubles Class 22 | 27 October |
| Bronze | Sachie Akakura Junko Fujii Mika Hata Hikari Yoshimoto Satoko Kikuchi Michiyo Nishiie Mizuho Fujimoto Mamiko Osada Kasumi Iihoshi Mikiko Sumitomo Mika Okuda | Sitting volleyball | Women's tournament | 27 October |
| Bronze | Takuya Miki | Wheelchair tennis | Men's singles | 27 October |
| Bronze | Keichi Nakajima | Swimming | Men's 200 m individual medley SM14 | 27 October |
| Bronze | Manami Urata | Swimming | Women's 400 m freestyle S9 | 27 October |
| Bronze | Ema Maeda | Swimming | Women's 100 m backstroke S9 | 27 October |
| Bronze | Tae Kawabe | Swimming | Women's 100 m butterfly S10 | 27 October |
| Bronze | Sae Tsuji | Athletics | Women's 400 m T47 | 28 October |
| Bronze | Uran Sawada Yuya Sambongi Yuka Takamatsu Tomoki Ikoma | Athletics | 4x100 m universal relay | 28 October |
| Bronze | Takuya Mori | Rowing | Men's single sculls PR1 | 28 October |

## Medal summary
### Medal by sport

Medals by sport :
| Sport | | | | Total |
| Swimming | 19 | 18 | 19 | 56 |
| Athletics | 9 | 12 | 12 | 33 |
| Wheelchair tennis | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| Cycling | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| Table tennis | 2 | 7 | 7 | 16 |
| Badminton | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| Judo | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Wheelchair basketball | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Archery | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Goalball | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Canoeing | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Taekwondo | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Wheelchair fencing | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Boccia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Rowing | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Shooting | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Sitting volleyball | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 42 | 49 | 59 | 150 |

### Medal by day

Medals by day :
| Day | Date | | | | Total |
| 1 | October 23 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 19 |
| 2 | October 24 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 26 |
| 3 | October 25 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 24 |
| 4 | October 26 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 35 |
| 5 | October 27 | 9 | 11 | 16 | 36 |
| 6 | October 28 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 12 |
| Total | Total | 42 | 49 | 59 | 150 |