Japan men's national ice hockey team

The Japanese men's national ice hockey team is the national men's ice hockey of Japan. They are currently ranked 22nd in the IIHF World Ranking and currently compete in IIHF World Championship Division I. They have competed in nine Olympics Games competitions.
==2009 World Championship Div I rosterhttp://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/187/IHM1870JPN_33_1_0.pdf==
Pos.	No.	Player 	Team
GK 	44 	Yutaka Fukufuji 	Nikko Ice Bucks
GK 	30 	Hisashi Ishikawa 	Nippon Paper Cranes
D 	2 	Jun Tonosaki 	Nippon Paper Cranes
D 	4 	Aaron Keller 	Oji Eagles
D 	5 	Fumitaka Miyauchi 	Seibu Prince Rabbits
D 	6 	Makoto Kawashima 	Oji Eagles
D 	12 	Yosuke Haga 	Oji Eagles
D 	34 	Ryuichi Kawai 	Seibu Prince Rabbits
D 	27 	Ryota Minami 	Oji Eagles
F 	8 	Yosuke Kon 	Seibu Prince Rabbits
F 	9 	Sho Sato 	Seibu Prince Rabbits
F 	10 	Toru Kamino 	Seibu Prince Rabbits
F 	11 	Masahito Nishiwaki	Nippon Paper Cranes
F 	13 	Masafumi Ogawa 	Oji Eagles
F 	14 	Go Tanaka 	Seibu Prince Rabbits
F 	15 	Shuhei Kuji 	Waseda University
F 	16 	Daisuke Obara 	Seibu Prince Rabbits
F 	17 	Robert Demontis 	Nippon Paper Cranes
F 	18 	Takahito Suzuki 	Seibu Prince Rabbits
F 	19 	Takeshi Saito 	Oji Eagles
F 	25 	Shunsuke Shigeno 	Chuo University
F 	62 	Tetsuya Saito 	Oji Eagles
== Team Japan players at the 1998 Nagano Olympics ==
*Dan Daikawa D
*Ryan Fujita F
*Yūji Iga F
*Dusty Imoo GK
*Shinichi Iwasaki GK
*Matthew Kabayama F
*Tatsuki Katayama D
*Yutaka Kawaguchi D
*Takayuki Kobori D
*Atsudo Kudō D
*Ryan Kuwabara F
*Hiroshi Matsuura F
*Hiroyuki Miura D
*Takayuki Miura D
*Fumitaka Miyauchi D
*Jirō Nihei GK
*Tsutsumi Otomo F
*Toshiyuki Sakai F
*Kunihiko Sakurai F
*Akihito Sugisawa F
*Steve Tsujiura C
*Shin Yahata F
*Takeshi Yamanaka D
*Chris Yule F
*Head coach Bjorn Kinding
*General Manager Dave King
== Winter Olympics record ==
*1936 - 9th place (tied)
*1960 - 8th place
*1964 - 11th place
*1968 - 10th place
*1972 - 9th place
*1976 - 9th place
*1980 - 12th place
*1998 - 13th place
== World Championship record ==
Note: Years in Bold denote participation in the top-level tournament
*1930 - Finished tied in 6th place
*1931 - 1955 - Did not participate
*1957 - Finished in 8th place
*1958 - 1961 - Did not participate
*1962 - Finished in 9th place (1st in "Pool B")
*1963 - 1966 - Did not participate
*1967 - Finished in 17th place (1st in "Pool C")
*1969 - Finished in 15th place (1st in "Pool C")
*1970 - Finished in 11th place (5th in "Pool B")
*1971 - Finished in 12th place (6th in "Pool B")
*1972 - Finished in 11th place (5th in "Pool B")
*1973 - Finished in 12th place (6th in "Pool B")
*1974 - Finished in 10th place (4th in "Pool B")
*1975 - Finished in 12th place (6th in "Pool B")
*1976 - Finished in 10th place (2nd in "Pool B")
*1977 - Finished in 11th place (3rd in "Pool B")
*1978 - Finished in 10th place (2nd in "Pool B")
*1979 - Finished in 14th place (6th in "Pool B")
*1981 - Finished in 16th place (8th in "Pool B")
*1982 - Finished in 17th place (1st in "Pool C")
*1983 - Finished in 13th place (5th in "Pool B")
*1985 - Finished in 13th place (5th in "Pool B")
*1986 - Finished in 16th place (8th in "Pool B")
*1987 - Finished in 17th place (1st in "Pool C")
*1989 - Finished in 15th place (7th in "Pool B")
*1990 - Finished in 15th place (7th in "Pool B")
*1991 - Finished in 16th place (8th in "Pool B")
*1992 - Finished in 15th place (3rd in "Pool B")
*1993 - Finished in 17th place (5th in "Pool B")
*1994 - Finished in 16th place (4th in "Pool B")
*1995 - Finished in 18th place (6th in "Pool B")
*1996 - Finished in 20th place (8th in "Pool B")
*1997 - Finished in 24th place (4th in "Pool C")
*1998 - Finished in 16th place
*1999 - Finished in 16th place
*2000 - Finished in 16th place
*2001 - Finished in 16th place
*2002 - Finished in 16th place
*2003 - Finished in 16th place
*2004 - Finished in 15th place
*2005 - Finished in 25th place (5th in Division I, Group A)
*2006 - Finished in 22nd place (3rd in Division I, Group A)
*2007 - Finished in 24th place (3rd in Division I, Group B)
*2008 - Finished in 21st place (3rd in Division I, Group B)
*2009 - Finished in 21st place (3rd in Division I, Group A)
*2010 - Finished in 21st place (3rd in Division I, Group A)
== All-time Record against other nations ==
As of June 6, 2009
Team	GP	W 	T	L 	GF 	GA
 	29	23	2	4 	200	70
 	30	19	1	10	143	95
 	16	15	1	0 	150	23
 	30	14	2	14	118	128
 	36	13	7	16	123	151
 	25	13	4	8 	138	82
 	23	12	1	10	106	98
 	32	11	4	17	111	130
 	26	11	1	14	93 	105
 	11	11	0	0 	93 	19
 	17	11	0	6 	75 	47
 	31	9 	3	19	93 	141
 	11	8 	0	3 	66 	29
 	26	7 	3	16	75 	106
 	7 	7 	0	0 	93 	17
 	34	4 	2	28	77 	184
 	9 	4 	1	4 	27 	28
 	4 	4 	0	0 	19 	3
 	40	3 	3	34	76 	218
 	16	3 	1	12	45 	89
 	11	2 	2	7 	26 	39
 	2 	2 	0	0 	10 	1
 	9 	2 	0	7 	27 	54
 	2 	1 	1	0 	9 	5
 	6 	1 	1	4 	14 	24
 	1 	1 	0	0 	44 	1
 	1 	1 	0	0 	39 	0
 	1 	1 	0	0 	24 	0
 	1 	1 	0	0 	11 	2
 	1 	1 	0	0 	7 	1
 	6 	0 	2	4 	7 	23
 	5 	0 	1	4 	10 	22
 	7 	0 	1	6 	15 	57
 	1 	0 	0	1 	1 	6
 	4 	0 	0	4 	10 	31
 	4 	0 	0	4 	1 	44
 	6 	0 	0	6 	12 	47
 	8 	0 	0	8 	14 	43
 	8 	0 	0	8 	14 	58
 	8 	0 	0	8 	20 	77
 	9 	0 	0	9 	23 	111
 	9 	0 	0	9 	12 	108
==References==
 
Category:National teams
Category:Ice hockey in Japan