JAPAN

Capital: Tokyo

NOC Recognition Year: 1912

Asian Games Debut: 1951

Japan is the only country to have won more than 20 gold medals at every edition of the Asian Games.

They have twice played host with Tokyo staging the Games in 1958 and Hiroshima doing so in 1994.

Japan’s best performance came at Bangkok 1966 where they claimed 78 gold, 53 silver and 33 bronze medals.

They topped every medal table from New Delhi 1951 through to Bangkok 1978, but China have achieved that feat since New Delhi 1982.

No country has won more swimming medals than Japan.

At Jakarta-Palembang 2018, Japan ranked second behind China in the overall medal table with 75 golds, 57 silvers and 73 bronze.

It was the same at Hangzhou 2022 as they finished as runners-up with 52 golds, 67 silvers and 69 bronze.

Japan will host the next Asian Games in 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya.