The Japan women's national basketball team is administered by the

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. At the

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, Japan won the silver medal, the nation's first Olympic basketball medal (for men or women) and became the first Asian team to reach the podium in women's basketball since

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.Japan's miracle run ends in final as U.S. wins women's basketball gold
JASON COSKREY (

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), 8 August 2021. Retrieved 20 August 2021. The Japanese, which were coached by

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, excelled in an 87–71 win over

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in the semi-finals before coming short 75–90 against the

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. Japan's

Rui Machida Rui Machida (町田瑠唯; born 8 March 1993) is a Japanese basketball player who plays for the Washington Mystics of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) and Fujitsu Red Wave of the Women's Japan Basketball League (WJBL). She rep ...

set an Olympic record with 18 assists against France. , Japan has been the reigning Champion of the Asia-Oceania region.

Competitive record

FIBA World Cup

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarc ...

– 9th place *

1967 Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 5 ** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and ...

– 5th place *

1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses ( February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events J ...

– 5th place *

1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...

– 2nd place *

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the '' International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the '' Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the so ...

– 6th place *

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

– 10th place *

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wa ...

– 14th place *

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

– 9th place *

2022 File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretariat; The global monkeypo ...

– 9th place

Olympic Games

1976 Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 ...

– 5th place *

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone o ...

– 7th place *

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight ...

– 10th place *

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses duri ...

– 8th place *

2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, worldwide lockdowns and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression in t ...

– 2nd place

FIBA Women's Asia Cup

* Gold: (1970, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021) * Silver: (1965, 1968, 1974, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2004) * Bronze: (1976, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 2007, 2009, 2011)

Asian Games

* Gold: (1974, 1998) * Silver: (1994) * Bronze: (1978, 1982, 1986, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018)

Team

Current roster

Roster for the

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Coaches

*Masayuki Katsura *Masatoshi Ozaki *Masami Komori *Zhang Tixin *

Kazuo Nakamura (basketball) is a former professional basketball head coach for Hamamatsu, Akita and Niigata and a former college basketball head coach for Akita Keizaihoka University in Japan. Nakamura always said to players, "Play basketball with all your heart." He admi ...

*Takeshi Ishikawa *Hideo Enomoto *Fumikazu Nakagawa * Norihiko Kitahara *

Tomohide Utsumi is a Japanese basketball coach. He coached the Japanese women's national team at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where the team finished eighth. Personal His son, Shingo Utsumi is a professional basketball player for the Kyoto Hannaryz. Head coachin ...

*Junichi Ara *

References

External links

*
FIBA profile
at FIBA Archive {{National sports teams of Japan Women's national basketball teams

Competitive record

FIBA World Cup

Olympic Games

FIBA Women's Asia Cup

Asian Games

Team

Current roster

Coaches

See also

References

External links