Title: Sports in Japan
Content:  Sports in Japan are a significant part of Japanese culture. Both traditional sports such as sumo and martial arts, and Western imports like basketball and association football, are popular with both participants and spectators. Sumo is considered Japan's national sport. Baseball was introduced to the country by visiting Americans in the 19th century. The Nippon Professional Baseball league has been Japan's largest professional sports competition in terms of television ratings and spectators. Martial arts such as judo, karate and modern kendō are also widely practiced and enjoyed by spectators in the country. Association football has gained wide popularity since the founding of the Japan Professional Football League in 1992. Other popular sports include figure skating, rugby union, golf, table tennis and racing, especially auto racing. Some new sports were invented by changing elements of imported sports. In 2021, the Nagoya Diamond Dolphins became the first top-tier professional Japanese sports club to sign on to a climate change initiative, as part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Title: Outline of Japan
Content: Sports ; Aikido ; Baseball in Japan ; Association football in Japan ; Kendo ; Puroresu (professional wrestling) ; Sumo ; Traditional games ; Go ; Shogi ; Mahjong ; Hanafuda 
Title: Japan
Content:  Traditionally, sumo is considered Japan's national sport. Japanese martial arts such as judo and kendo are taught as part of the compulsory junior high school curriculum. Baseball is the most popular spectator sport in the country. Japan's top professional league, Nippon Professional Baseball, was established in 1936. Since the establishment of the Japan Professional Football League in 1992, association football has gained a wide following. The country co-hosted the 2002 FIFA World Cup with South Korea. Japan has one of the most successful football teams in Asia, winning the Asian Cup four times, and the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2011. Golf is 
Title: Culture of Japan
Content:   In the long feudal period governed by the samurai class, some methods that were used to train warriors were developed into well-ordered martial arts, in modern times referred to collectively as koryū. Examples include kenjutsu, kendo, kyūdō, sōjutsu, jujutsu, and sumo, all of which were established in the Edo period. After the rapid social change in the Meiji Restoration, some martial arts changed into modern sports, called gendai budō. Judo was developed by Kanō Jigorō, who studied some sects of jujutsu. These sports are still widely practiced in present-day Japan and other countries. Baseball, Association football, and other popular western sports were imported to Japan in the Meiji period. These sports are commonly practiced in schools, along with traditional martial arts. Baseball, soccer, football, and ping pong are the most popular sports in Japan. Association football gained prominence in Japan after the J League (Japan Professional Football League) was established in 1991. Japan also co-hosted the 2002 FIFA World Cup. In addition, there are many semi-professional organizations, which are sponsored by private companies: for example, volleyball, basketball, rugby union, table tennis, and so on.
Title: Sports in Japan
Content:  Sumo wrestling is the national sport in Japan. Sumo wrestling is believed to have originated in Japan, with its governing body being the Japan Sumo Association. It is considered a gendai budō, which refers to modern Japanese martial art, but the sport has a history spanning many centuries. Many ancient traditions have been preserved in sumo, and even today the sport includes many ritual elements, such as the use of salt purification, from Shinto. Life as a wrestler is highly regimented, with rules regulated by the Japan Sumo Association. Most sumo wrestlers are required to live in communal sumo training stables, known in Japanese as heya, where all aspects of their daily lives—from meals to their manner of dress—are dictated by strict tradition.
Title: Sports in Japan
Content: Aikido ; Takagari (falconry) ; Iaido ; Judo ; Jujutsu ; Karate in Japan ; Kemari ; Kendo ; Kenjutsu ; Kyūdō (Japanese archery) ; Mixed martial arts in Japan ; Naginata ; Sumo ; Yabusame 
Title: Football in Japan
Content:  Football is among the most popular sports in Japan,  together with baseball, basketball, sumo and martial arts. Its nationwide organization, the Japan Football Association, administers the professional football leagues, including J.League which is the most successful football league in Asia.
Title: Sports in Japan
Content: 1) Ladies professional soccer league, WE League will start in the 2021–22 season. ; 2) Japan has no professional American Football teams. The above means watching the US National Football League games on TV. Horse racing - 25 races have international Grade I ratings. Arima Kinen is the world's biggest betting race. ; Keirin - bicycle racing. Became an Olympic sport in 2000 in its modified form ; Kyotei - powerboat racing ; Auto Race - motorbike racing on oval tracks The most popular professional sports in Japan are baseball, Association football, golf, tennis and sumo wrestling. Note that most practitioners in the martial arts are not professional, but played by amateurs. Notes: In addition, there are professional sports for gambling purposes; some fans enjoy them as spectator sports without betting money.
Title: Sports in Japan
Content: Ekiden ; Keirin ; Gateball ; Soft Tennis ; K-1 ; Pride FC ; Park golf ; Rubber Baseball ; Sports fukiya ; Sports Chanbara AKA Spochan ; Bo-Taoshi 
Title: Sports in Japan
Content:  But, as it actually increased interest and sold more merchandise, airing of sports on television became popular. Judo has been recognized as an official event in the Olympic Games since the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. It is also one of the four main forms of amateur competitive wrestling practiced internationally today. Keirin racing has also become an Olympic Games event since the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Motorsports have become quite popular in Japan, especially during the latter third of the 20th century. Japanese car manufacturers use a relatively new form of motorsport that is distinctly Japanese and is now being exported abroad. Japan was to host the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, but they were postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Question: what type of sports do japanese play?
Answer: Japan national football team.