title: Japan at the 1936 Summer Olympics
text: # Japan at the 1936 Summer Olympics
  
  The Empire of Japan competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. 179 athletes competed in 13 sports and also participated in art competitions. In art competitions, Japan won 2 bronze medals by Ryuji Fujita in paintings and also Sujaku Suzuki in drawing and water colours. As the country hosted the next Olympics that was supposed to be held Tokyo before cancellation, a Japanese segment was performed at the closing ceremony.
  
  ## Medalists
  
  | Medal | Name | Sport | Event | Date |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Gold | Naoto Tajima | Athletics | Men's triple jump | August 6 |
  | Gold | Kitei Son | Athletics | Men's marathon | August 9 |
  | Gold | Hideko Maehata | Swimming | Women's 200 m breaststroke | August 11 |
  | Gold | Shigeo Arai Shigeo Sugiura Masaharu Taguchi Masanori Yusa | Swimming | Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay | August 11 |
  | Gold | Tetsuo Hamuro | Swimming | Men's 200 m breaststroke | August 15 |
  | Gold | Noboru Terada | Swimming | Men's 1500 m freestyle | August 15 |
  | Silver | Shuhei Nishida | Athletics | Men's pole vault | August 5 |
  | Silver | Masao Harada | Athletics | Men's triple jump | August 6 |
  | Silver | Masanori Yusa | Swimming | Men's 100 m freestyle | August 9 |
  | Silver | Shumpei Uto | Swimming | Men's 400 m freestyle | August 12 |
  | Bronze | Naoto Tajima | Athletics | Men's long jump | August 4 |
  | Bronze | Sueo Ōe | Athletics | Men's pole vault | August 5 |
  | Bronze | Shōryū Nan | Athletics | Men's marathon | August 9 |
  | Bronze | Shigeo Arai | Swimming | Men's 100 m freestyle | August 9 |
  | Bronze | Shozo Makino | Swimming | Men's 400 m freestyle | August 12 |
  | Bronze | Masaji Kiyokawa | Swimming | Men's 100 m backstroke | August 14 |
  | Bronze | Reizo Koike | Swimming | Men's 200 m breaststroke | August 15 |
  | Bronze | Shumpei Uto | Swimming | Men's 1500 m freestyle | August 15 |
  
  Medals by sport :
  
  | Sport | | | | Total |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Swimming | 4 | 2 | 5 | 11 |
  | Athletics | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
  | Total | 6 | 4 | 8 | 18 |
  
  ## Aquatics
  
  ### Elimination rounds
  
  In the first round each team in a group played each other team in the same group. The placings were determined on points. If the points were equal, then the better goal average decided. The first two teams of each group were qualified for the semi-finals, while the third and fourth placed team was eliminated.
  
  Group 3
  
  | Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts | | | | |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1. | Germany (GER) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 3 | 6 | X | 8:1 | 6:1 | 13:1 |
  | 2. | France (FRA) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 1:8 | X | 3:2 | 8:0 |
  | 3. | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 2 | 1:6 | 2:3 | X | 4:3 |
  | 4. | Japan (JPN) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 25 | 0 | 1:13 | 0:8 | 3:4 | X |
  
  Place:14th
  
  ## Basketball
  
  First Round
  
  Second Round
  
  * 9 August 1936 (1936-08-09) 4:00PM
  
  | Japan | 43–31 | Poland |
  | - | - | - |
  | Scoring by half: 23–13, 20–18 |||
  
  * Berlin, Germany
  
  Third Round
  
  * 11 August 1936 (1936-08-11) 4:00 PM
  
  | Mexico | 28–22 | Japan |
  | - | - | - |
  | Scoring by half: 12–8, 16–14 |||
  
  * Berlin, Germany
  
  ## Field hockey
  
  ### Group A
  
  | Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | India | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | +20 | 6 | Semi-finals |
  | 2 | Japan | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 11 | −3 | 4 | |
  | 3 | Hungary | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | −4 | 2 | |
  | 4 | United States | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 15 | −13 | 0 | |
  
  * 5 August 1936 16:30
  
  | Japan | 5–1 | United States |
  | - | - | - |
  | | Report | |
  
  * Umpires: J. Schenkmann (SUI) A. Lepètre (FRA)
  * 8 August 1936 18:00
  
  | Japan | 3–1 | Hungary |
  | - | - | - |
  | | Report | |
  
  * 10 August 1936 16:30
  
  | India | 9–0 | Japan |
  | - | - | - |
  | | Report | |
  
  ## Rowing
  
  Japan had 16 rowers participate in three out of seven rowing events in 1936.
  
  ### Men's coxed pair
  
  * Tsutomu Mitsudome
  * Osamu Abe
  * Taro Teshima (cox)
  
  ### Men's coxed four
  
  * Chikara Shirasaka
  * Taichi Yamada
  * Takashi Hatakeyama
  * Yoichi Endo
  * Taro Teshima (cox)
  
  ### Men's eight
  
  * Tadashi Negishi
  * Masaru Kashiwahara
  * Shusui Sekigawa
  * Isamu Mita
  * Osamu Kitamura
  * Haruyoshi Nakagawa
  * Takeo Hori
  * Yoshiteru Suzuki
  * Tadashi Shimijima (cox)
  
  ## Sailing
  
  Japan had 3 rowers participate in 2 out of four Sailing events in 1936.
  
  ### O-Jolle
  
  * Norio Fujimura
  
  ### Star
  
  * Minoru Takarabe
  * Takuo Mitsui
  