# Japan at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

Although Japanese gymnasts competed at numerous Olympic Games as early as 1932, they didn't compete at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships until 1954. The men's team immediately achieved success, winning silver in the team event and individually Masao Takemoto won gold on floor exercise. The women's team won their first team medal, a bronze, in 1962.

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Year | Event |
| Silver | Akitomo Kaneko, Akira Kono, Masami Kubota, Tetsumi Nabeya, Takashi Ono, Yoshiyuki Oshima, Masao Takemoto | 1954 Rome | Men's team |
| Gold | Masao Takemoto | 1954 Rome | Men's floor exercise |
| Gold | Keiko Tanaka | 1954 Rome | Women's balance beam |
| Bronze | Masao Takemoto | 1954 Rome | Men's parallel bars |
| Silver | Nobuyuki Aihara, Akira Kono, Takashi Ono, Masao Takemoto, Katsumi Terai, Shinsaku Tsukawaki | 1958 Moscow | Men's team |
| Silver | Takashi Ono | 1958 Moscow | Men's all-around |
| Gold | Masao Takemoto | 1958 Moscow | Men's floor exercise |
| Silver | Takashi Ono | 1958 Moscow | Men's floor exercise |
| Silver | Nobuyuki Aihara | 1958 Moscow | Men's rings |
| Silver | Masao Takemoto | 1958 Moscow | Men's vault |
| Bronze | Takashi Ono | 1958 Moscow | Men's vault |
| Bronze | Keiko Tanaka | 1958 Moscow | Women's balance beam |
| Silver | Takashi Ono | 1958 Moscow | Men's parallel bars |
| Bronze | Keiko Tanaka | 1958 Moscow | Women's floor exercise |
| Bronze | Masao Takemoto | 1958 Moscow | Men's horizontal bar |
| Gold | Nobuyuki Aihara, Yukio Endo, Takashi Mitsukuri, Takashi Ono, Shuji Tsurumi, Haruhiro Yamashita | 1962 Prague | Men's team |
| Bronze | Ginko Abukawa, Keiko Ikeda, Taniko Nakamura, Kiyoko Ono, Toshiko Shirasu, Hiroko Tsuji | 1962 Prague | Women's team |
| Silver | Yukio Endo | 1962 Prague | Men's all-around |
| Gold | Nobuyuki Aihara | 1962 Prague | Men's floor exercise |
| Gold | Yukio Endo | 1962 Prague | Men's floor exercise |
| Silver | Yukio Endo | 1962 Prague | Men's rings |
| Silver | Haruhiro Yamashita | 1962 Prague | Men's vault |
| Bronze | Yukio Endo | 1962 Prague | Men's vault |
| Bronze | Keiko Ikeda | 1962 Prague | Women's balance beam |
| Bronze | Yukio Endo | 1962 Prague | Men's parallel bars |
| Gold | Takashi Ono | 1962 Prague | Men's horizontal bar |
| Silver | Yukio Endo | 1962 Prague | Men's horizontal bar |
| Gold | Shuji Tsurumi, Akinori Nakayama, Takeshi Katō, Yukio Endo, Takashi Mitsukuri, Haruhiro Matsuda | 1966 Dortmund | Men's team |
| Bronze | Keiko Ikeda, Taki Shibuya, Hiroko Ikenada, Taniko Mitsukuri, Yasuko Furuyama, Mitsuko Kandori | 1966 Dortmund | Women's team |
| Silver | Shuji Tsurumi | 1966 Dortmund | Men's all-around |
| Bronze | Akinori Nakayama | 1966 Dortmund | Men's all-around |
| Bronze | Keiko Ikeda | 1966 Dortmund | Women's all-around |
| Gold | Akinori Nakayama | 1966 Dortmund | Men's floor exercise |
| Silver | Yukio Endo | 1966 Dortmund | Men's floor exercise |
| Bronze | Takeshi Katō | 1966 Dortmund | Men's pommel horse |
| Silver | Keiko Ikeda | 1966 Dortmund | Women's uneven bars |
| Bronze | Taniko Mitsukuri | 1966 Dortmund | Women's uneven bars |
| Silver | Akinori Nakayama | 1966 Dortmund | Men's rings |
| Gold | Haruhiro Matsuda | 1966 Dortmund | Men's vault |
| Silver | Takeshi Katō | 1966 Dortmund | Men's vault |
| Bronze | Akinori Nakayama | 1966 Dortmund | Men's vault |
| Gold | Akinori Nakayama | 1966 Dortmund | Men's horizontal bar |
| Silver | Yukio Endo | 1966 Dortmund | Men's horizontal bar |
| Bronze | Takashi Mitsukuri | 1966 Dortmund | Men's horizontal bar |
| Gold | Eizo Kenmotsu, Mitsuo Tsukahara, Akinori Nakayama, Fumio Honma, Takuji Hayata, Takeshi Katō | 1970 Ljubljana | Men's team |
| Gold | Eizo Kenmotsu | 1970 Ljubljana | Men's all-around |
| Silver | Mitsuo Tsukahara | 1970 Ljubljana | Men's all-around |
| Bronze | Akinori Nakayama | 1970 Ljubljana | Men's all-around |
| Gold | Akinori Nakayama | 1970 Ljubljana | Men's floor exercise |
| Silver | Eizo Kenmotsu | 1970 Ljubljana | Men's floor exercise |
| Bronze | Takeshi Katō | 1970 Ljubljana | Men's floor exercise |
| Silver | Eizo Kenmotsu | 1970 Ljubljana | Men's pommel horse |
| Gold | Akinori Nakayama | 1970 Ljubljana | Men's rings |
| Silver | Mitsuo Tsukahara | 1970 Ljubljana | Men's rings |
| Gold | Mitsuo Tsukahara | 1970 Ljubljana | Men's vault |
| Bronze | Takeshi Katō | 1970 Ljubljana | Men's vault |
| Gold | Akinori Nakayama | 1970 Ljubljana | Men's parallel bars |
| Silver | Eizo Kenmotsu | 1970 Ljubljana | Men's parallel bars |
| Gold | Eizo Kenmotsu | 1970 Ljubljana | Men's horizontal bar |
| Silver | Akinori Nakayama | 1970 Ljubljana | Men's horizontal bar |
| Bronze | Takuji Hayata | 1970 Ljubljana | Men's horizontal bar |
| Gold | Shigeru Kasamatsu, Eizo Kenmotsu, Mitsuo Tsukahara, Hiroshi Kajiyama, Fumio Honma, Sawao Kato | 1974 Varna | Men's team |
| Gold | Shigeru Kasamatsu | 1974 Varna | Men's all-around |
| Bronze | Eizo Kenmotsu | 1974 Varna | Men's all-around |
| Gold | Shigeru Kasamatsu | 1974 Varna | Men's floor exercise |
| Silver | Hiroshi Kajiyama | 1974 Varna | Men's floor exercise |
| Bronze | Eizo Kenmotsu | 1974 Varna | Men's pommel horse |
| Gold | Shigeru Kasamatsu | 1974 Varna | Men's vault |
| Bronze | Hiroshi Kajiyama | 1974 Varna | Men's vault |
| Gold | Eizo Kenmotsu | 1974 Varna | Men's parallel bars |
| Bronze | Eizo Kenmotsu | 1974 Varna | Men's horizontal bar |
| Gold | Hiroshi Kajiyama, Shigeru Kasamatsu, Eizo Kenmotsu, Junichi Shimizu, Shinzo Shiraishi, Mitsuo Tsukahara | 1978 Strasbourg | Men's team |
| Silver | Eizo Kenmotsu | 1978 Strasbourg | Men's all-around |
| Silver | Shigeru Kasamatsu | 1978 Strasbourg | Men's floor exercise |
| Gold | Junichi Shimizu | 1978 Strasbourg | Men's vault |
| Gold | Eizo Kenmotsu | 1978 Strasbourg | Men's parallel bars |
| Silver | Hiroshi Kajiyama | 1978 Strasbourg | Men's parallel bars |
| Gold | Shigeru Kasamatsu | 1978 Strasbourg | Men's horizontal bar |
| Silver | Hiroshi Kajiyama, Shigeru Kasamatsu, Nobuyuki Kajitani, Toshiomi Nishikii, Koji Gushiken, Eizo Kenmotsu | 1979 Fort Worth | Men's team |
| Bronze | Koji Gushiken | 1979 Fort Worth | Men's pommel horse |
| Silver | Nobuyuki Kajitani, Koji Gushiken, Koji Sotomura, Kiyoshi Goto, Kyoji Yamawaki, Toshiro Kanai | 1981 Moscow | Men's team |
| Bronze | Koji Gushiken | 1981 Moscow | Men's all-around |
| Bronze | Koji Gushiken | 1981 Moscow | Men's floor exercise |
| Gold | Koji Gushiken | 1981 Moscow | Men's parallel bars |
| Bronze | Nobuyuki Kajitani | 1981 Moscow | Men's parallel bars |
| Bronze | Koji Gushiken, Koji Sotomura, Nobuyuki Kajitani, Mitsuaki Watanabe, Noritoshi Hirata, Shinji Morisue | 1983 Budapest | Men's team |
| Silver | Koji Gushiken | 1983 Budapest | Men's all-around |
| Gold | Koji Gushiken | 1983 Budapest | Men's rings |
| Bronze | Koji Sotomura | 1983 Budapest | Men's parallel bars |
| Bronze | Hiroyuki Konishi | 1985 Montreal | Men's pommel horse |
| Bronze | Kyoji Yamawaki | 1985 Montreal | Men's rings |
| Bronze | Koji Gushiken | 1985 Montreal | Men's parallel bars |
| Bronze | Mitsuaki Watanabe | 1985 Montreal | Men's horizontal bar |
| Bronze | Yukio Iketani | 1989 Stuttgart | Men's horizontal bar |
| Bronze | Daisuke Nishikawa | 1991 Indianapolis | Men's floor exercise |
| Bronze | Yutaka Aihara | 1991 Indianapolis | Men's vault |
| Silver | Yoshiaki Hatakeda, Daisuke Nishikawa, Hikaru Tanaka, Toshiharu Sato, Masayuki Matsunaga, Hiromasa Masuda, Masayoshi Maeda | 1995 Sabae | Men's team |
| Silver | Yoshiaki Hatakeda | 1995 Sabae | Men's pommel horse |
| Bronze | Hikaru Tanaka | 1995 Sabae | Men's parallel bars |
| Silver | Yoshiaki Hatakeda | 1995 Sabae | Men's horizontal bar |
| Bronze | Naoya Tsukahara | 1997 Lausanne | Men's all-around |
| Bronze | Naoya Tsukahara | 1997 Lausanne | Men's parallel bars |
| Silver | Naoya Tsukahara | 1999 Tianjin | Men's all-around |
| Silver | Naoya Tsukahara | 1999 Tianjin | Men's parallel bars |
| Bronze | Takehiro Kashima | 2002 Debrecen | Men's pommel horse |
| Bronze | Takehiro Kashima, Hiroyuki Tomita, Naoya Tsukahara, Tatsuya Yamada | 2003 Anaheim | Men's team |
| Bronze | Hiroyuki Tomita | 2003 Anaheim | Men's all-around |
| Gold | Takehiro Kashima | 2003 Anaheim | Men's pommel horse |
| Gold | Takehiro Kashima | 2003 Anaheim | Men's horizontal bar |
| Gold | Hiroyuki Tomita | 2005 Melbourne | Men's all-around |
| Silver | Hisashi Mizutori | 2005 Melbourne | Men's all-around |
| Bronze | Takehiro Kashima | 2005 Melbourne | Men's pommel horse |
| Bronze | Hisashi Mizutori, Takehito Mori, Takuya Nakase, Eichi Sekiguchi, Hiroyuki Tomita, Naoya Tsukahara | 2006 Aarhus | Men's team |
| Silver | Hiroyuki Tomita | 2006 Aarhus | Men's all-around |
| Silver | Hiroyuki Tomita | 2006 Aarhus | Men's parallel bars |
| Silver | Hisashi Mizutori, Hiroyuki Tomita, Yosuke Hoshi, Makoto Okiguchi, Takuya Nakase, Shun Kuwahara | 2007 Stuttgart | Men's team |
| Bronze | Hisashi Mizutori | 2007 Stuttgart | Men's all-around |
| Bronze | Hisashi Mizutori | 2007 Stuttgart | Men's floor exercise |
| Bronze | Hisashi Mizutori | 2007 Stuttgart | Men's horizontal bar |
| Gold | Kōhei Uchimura | 2009 London | Men's all-around |
| Bronze | Kōko Tsurumi | 2009 London | Women's all-around |
| Silver | Kōko Tsurumi | 2009 London | Women's uneven bars |
| Bronze | Kazuhito Tanaka | 2009 London | Men's parallel bars |
| Silver | Kōhei Uchimura, Koji Yamamuro, Koji Uematsu, Kazuhito Tanaka, Kenya Kobayashi, Tatsuki Nakashima | 2010 Rotterdam | Men's team |
| Gold | Kōhei Uchimura | 2010 Rotterdam | Men's all-around |
| Silver | Kōhei Uchimura | 2010 Rotterdam | Men's floor exercise |
| Bronze | Kōhei Uchimura | 2010 Rotterdam | Men's parallel bars |
| Silver | Kōhei Uchimura, Kazuhito Tanaka, Kenya Kobayashi, Koji Yamamuro, Makoto Okiguchi, Yusuke Tanaka | 2011 Tokyo | Men's team |
| Gold | Kōhei Uchimura | 2011 Tokyo | Men's all-around |
| Bronze | Koji Yamamuro | 2011 Tokyo | Men's all-around |
| Gold | Kōhei Uchimura | 2011 Tokyo | Men's floor exercise |
| Bronze | Koji Yamamuro | 2011 Tokyo | Men's rings |
| Bronze | Makoto Okiguchi | 2011 Tokyo | Men's vault |
| Bronze | Kōhei Uchimura | 2011 Tokyo | Men's horizontal bar |
| Gold | Kōhei Uchimura | 2013 Antwerp | Men's all-around |
| Silver | Ryohei Kato | 2013 Antwerp | Men's all-around |
| Gold | Kenzō Shirai | 2013 Antwerp | Men's floor exercise |
| Bronze | Kōhei Uchimura | 2013 Antwerp | Men's floor exercise |
| Gold | Kohei Kameyama | 2013 Antwerp | Men's pommel horse |
| Gold | Kōhei Uchimura | 2013 Antwerp | Men's parallel bars |
| Bronze | Kōhei Uchimura | 2013 Antwerp | Men's horizontal bar |
| Silver | Kohei Kameyama, Ryohei Kato, Shogo Nonomura, Kenzō Shirai, Yusuke Tanaka, Kōhei Uchimura, Kazuyuki Takeda | 2014 Nanning | Men's team |
| Gold | Kōhei Uchimura | 2014 Nanning | Men's all-around |
| Bronze | Yusuke Tanaka | 2014 Nanning | Men's all-around |
| Silver | Kenzō Shirai | 2014 Nanning | Men's floor exercise |
| Bronze | Ryohei Kato | 2014 Nanning | Men's parallel bars |
| Silver | Kōhei Uchimura | 2014 Nanning | Men's horizontal bar |
| Gold | Naoto Hayasaka, Ryohei Kato, Kazuma Kaya, Kenzō Shirai, Yusuke Tanaka, Kōhei Uchimura, Tomomasa Hasegawa | 2015 Glasgow | Men's team |
| Gold | Kōhei Uchimura | 2015 Glasgow | Men's all-around |
| Gold | Kenzō Shirai | 2015 Glasgow | Men's floor exercise |
| Bronze | Kazuma Kaya | 2015 Glasgow | Men's pommel horse |
| Gold | Kōhei Uchimura | 2015 Glasgow | Men's horizontal bar |
| Bronze | Kenzō Shirai | 2017 Montreal | Men's all-around |
| Gold | Kenzō Shirai | 2017 Montreal | Men's floor exercise |
| Gold | Kenzō Shirai | 2017 Montreal | Men's vault |
| Gold | Mai Murakami | 2017 Montreal | Women's floor exercise |
| Bronze | Kazuma Kaya, Kenzō Shirai, Yusuke Tanaka, Wataru Tanigawa, Kōhei Uchimura, Kakeru Tanigawa | 2018 Doha | Men's team |
| Silver | Mai Murakami | 2018 Doha | Women's all-around |
| Silver | Kenzō Shirai | 2018 Doha | Men's floor exercise |
| Bronze | Kenzō Shirai | 2018 Doha | Men's vault |
| Bronze | Mai Murakami | 2018 Doha | Women's floor exercise |
| Silver | Kōhei Uchimura | 2018 Doha | Men's horizontal bar |
| Bronze | Daiki Hashimoto, Yuya Kamoto, Kazuma Kaya, Kakeru Tanigawa, Wataru Tanigawa, Shogo Nonomura | 2019 Stuttgart | Men's team |
| Bronze | Kazuma Kaya | 2019 Stuttgart | Men's parallel bars |
| Silver | Daiki Hashimoto | 2021 Kitakyushu | Men's all-around |
| Silver | Kazuki Minami | 2021 Kitakyushu | Men's floor exercise |
| Silver | Kazuma Kaya | 2021 Kitakyushu | Men's pommel horse |
| Silver | Hidenobu Yonekura | 2021 Kitakyushu | Men's vault |
| Gold | Urara Ashikawa | 2021 Kitakyushu | Women's balance beam |
| Bronze | Mai Murakami | 2021 Kitakyushu | Women's balance beam |
| Gold | Mai Murakami | 2021 Kitakyushu | Women's floor exercise |
| Silver | Daiki Hashimoto | 2021 Kitakyushu | Men's horizontal bar |
| Silver | Ryosuke Doi, Daiki Hashimoto, Yuya Kamoto, Kakeru Tanigawa, Wataru Tanigawa, Kazuma Kaya | 2022 Liverpool | Men's team |
| Gold | Daiki Hashimoto | 2022 Liverpool | Men's all-around |
| Bronze | Wataru Tanigawa | 2022 Liverpool | Men's all-around |
| Silver | Daiki Hashimoto | 2022 Liverpool | Men's floor exercise |
| Bronze | Ryosuke Doi | 2022 Liverpool | Men's floor exercise |
| Gold | Hazuki Watanabe | 2022 Liverpool | Women's balance beam |
| Bronze | Shoko Miyata | 2022 Liverpool | Women's balance beam |
| Silver | Daiki Hashimoto | 2022 Liverpool | Men's horizontal bar |
| Gold | Kenta Chiba, Daiki Hashimoto, Kazuma Kaya, Kazuki Minami, Kaito Sugimoto, Teppei Miwa | 2023 Antwerp | Men's team |
| Gold | Daiki Hashimoto | 2023 Antwerp | Men's all-around |
| Silver | Kazuki Minami | 2023 Antwerp | Men's floor exercise |
| Bronze | Kaito Sugimoto | 2023 Antwerp | Men's parallel bars |
| Gold | Daiki Hashimoto | 2023 Antwerp | Men's horizontal bar |

## Medal tables
### By gender

| Gender | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| Men | 50 | 56 | 60 | 166 |
| Women | 5 | 3 | 11 | 19 |

### By event

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| Men's individual all-around | 11 | 11 | 11 | 33 |
| Men's floor exercise | 11 | 11 | 6 | 28 |
| Men's team | 7 | 10 | 5 | 22 |
| Men's horizontal bar | 7 | 8 | 9 | 24 |
| Men's parallel bars | 5 | 5 | 12 | 22 |
| Men's vault | 5 | 4 | 8 | 17 |
| Women's balance beam | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| Men's rings | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| Men's pommel horse | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 |
| Women's floor exercise | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Women's uneven bars | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Women's individual all-around | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Women's team | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Women's vault | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Junior World medalists

| Medal | Name | Year | Event |
| Gold | Ryosuke Doi, Takeru Kitazono, Shinnosuke Oka, Azusa Emata | 2019 Győr | Boys' team |
| Gold | Shinnosuke Oka | 2019 Győr | Boys' all-around |
| Silver | Ryosuke Doi | 2019 Győr | Boys' all-around |
| Gold | Takeru Kitazono | 2019 Győr | Boys' pommel horse |
| Silver | Shinnosuke Oka | 2019 Győr | Boys' pommel horse |
| Gold | Takeru Kitazono | 2019 Győr | Boys' parallel bars |
| Bronze | Shinnosuke Oka | 2019 Győr | Boys' parallel bars |
| Gold | Kamiyama Haruto, Tanida Masaharu, Tsunogai Tomoharu, Noda Renato | 2023 Antalya | Boys' team |
| Gold | Mizuno Mika, Nakamura Haruka, Yamaguchi Sara, Kawakami Saki | 2023 Antalya | Girls' team |
| Gold | Nakamura Haruka | 2023 Antalya | Girls' all-around |
| Silver | Yamaguchi Sara | 2023 Antalya | Girls' all-around |
| Silver | Tanida Masaharu | 2023 Antalya | Boys' rings |
| Gold | Tsunogai Tomoharu | 2023 Antalya | Boys' parallel bars |
| Bronze | Nakamura Haruka | 2023 Antalya | Girls' floor exercise |
| Gold | Tsunogai Tomoharu | 2023 Antalya | Boys' horizontal bar |