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Tournament record

Olympic Games

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

– Finished in 6th place *

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

– Finished in 7th place *

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

– Finished in 6th place *

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

– Finished in 6th place *

2026 Predicted and scheduled events * January 1 – Bulgaria is expected to adopt the euro and become the 21st member state of the eurozone. * January 6 – The 2025 Jubilee will end on this day. * February 5 – The New START Treat ...

– ''Qualified''

World Championship

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

– Finished in 8th place *

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

– Finished in 9th place (1st in Group B, Promoted to Top Division) *

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

– Finished in 8th place (Relegated to Division I). *

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

– Finished in 10th place (2nd in Division I). *

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

– Finished in 9th place (1st in Group B, Promoted to Top Division) *

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 60 ...

– Finished in 9th place (Relegated to Division I) *

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

– Finished in 10th place (2nd in Division I) *

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

– Finished in 10th place (1st in Group B, Promoted to Top Division) *

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

– Finished in 7th place *

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

– Finished in 8th place (Relegated to Division I) *

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

– ''Withdrew from the tournament due to an

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2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

– Finished in 11th place (3rd in Division IA) *

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

– Finished in 9th place (1st in Division IA, Promoted to Top Division) *

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

– Finished in 7th place *

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

– Finished in 8th place (Relegated to Division I) *

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

– Finished in 9th place (1st in Division IA, Promoted to Top Division) *

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

– Finished in 8th place *

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

– ''Cancelled due to the

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2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

– Finished in 6th place *

– Finished in 5th place *

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

– Finished in 7th place *

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

– Finished in 8th place *

2025 So far, the year has seen the continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudanese civil war, and the Gaza war. Internal crises in Bangladesh post-resignation v ...

– Finished in 7th place

Asian Games

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

– Finished in 2nd place *

– Finished in 1st place *

– Finished in 1st place

IIHF Challenge Cup of Asia

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

– Finished in 2nd place *

– Finished in 1st place *

– Finished in 1st place

Pacific Rim Championship

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

– Finished in 4th place *

– Finished in 4th place

Team

Current roster

Roster for the

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. Head coach:

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Notable former players

* Nonaka Emi * Masako Sato * Rie Sato * Adachi Yurie

Coaches

*1990 World Championship –

Noriko Fukuda is a Japanese announcer for TV Tokyo, and former RKB Mainichi Broadcasting (stylized as ''rkb'') is a broadcasting station located in Fukuoka Prefecture, Fukuoka, Japan. It is affiliated with the Japan Radio Network (JRN) and the Japan Ne ...

*1995 to 1998 – Wally Kozak (coach-mentor) *1998 Winter Olympics –

Toru Itabashi TORU or Toru may refer to: *TORU, spacecraft system *Tōru (given name), Japanese male given name *Toru, Pakistan, village in Mardan District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan *Tõru Tõru is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County in western Es ...

(head coach),

Tsutomu Kawabuchi Tsutomu Kawabuchi (; 16 May 1925 – 19 January 2014) was a Japanese ice hockey player, coach and administrator. He won Japanese hockey championships as a player and as a coach with Iwakura, and later coached the Japan men's national ice hockey ...

*1999 World Championship B – Takayuki Hatanda *2000 World Championship – Takayuki Hatanda *2001 World Championship D1 – Takayuki Hatanda *2003 World Championship D1 – Masayuki Takahashi *2004 World Championship – Kenji Nobuta (head coach), Tsutomu Kawabuchi (assistant coach, team manager) *2005 World Championship D1 – Kenji Nobuta *2007 World Championship D1 – Kohichi Satoh *2008 World Championship –

*2009 World Championship – Yuji Iizuka *2012 World Championship D1A – Yuji Iizuka *2013 World Championship D1A – Yuji Iizuka *2014 Winter Olympics – Yuji Iizuka *2015 World Championship – Yoshifumi Fujisawa *2016 World Championship – Yoshifumi Fujisawa *2017 World Championship D1A – Takeshi Yamanaka *2018 Winter Olympics – Takeshi Yamanaka *2019 World Championship – Yuji Iizuka *2021 World Championship – Yuji Iizuka *2022 Winter Olympics – Yuji Iizuka *2022 World Championship – Yuji Iizuka *2023 World Championship – Yuji Iizuka Source: IIHF Guide & Record Book 2020

All-time record against other nations

''Last match update: 10 March 2022''

References

External links

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IIHF profile
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Tournament record

Olympic Games

World Championship

Asian Games

IIHF Challenge Cup of Asia

Pacific Rim Championship

Team

Current roster

Notable former players

Coaches

All-time record against other nations

See also

References

External links