Japan national basketball team
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| FIBA Ranking | 34th | ||
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| Joined FIBA | 1936 | ||
| FIBA Zone | FIBA Asia | ||
| National Federation | Japan Basketball Association | ||
| Coach |  Thomas Wisman[1] |
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| Olympic Games | |||
| Appearances | 6 | ||
| Medals | None | ||
| World Championships | |||
| Appearances | 4 | ||
| Medals | None | ||
| Asian Championships | |||
| Appearances | 24 | ||
| Medals |  Gold: 1965, 1971, Silver: 1969, 1975, 1979, 1983, 1997 Bronze: 1960, 1967, 1977, 1981, 1987, 1991, 1995 |
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The Japanese national basketball team represents Japan in international basketball competitions. It is governed by the Japan Basketball Association (JABBA). (Japanese: 日本バスケットボール協会)[2] Japan is the second leading nation in qualifications to the Asian Basketball Championships. (only behind South Korea)
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[edit] Current squad
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2010 Japan National Basketball Team roster
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[edit] Depth Chart
| Pos. | Starter | Bench | Bench | Inactive |
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| C | Joji Takeuchi | Daiji Yamada | J.R. Sakuragi | |
| PF | Kosuke Takeuchi | Shunsuke Ito | ||
| SF | Tomoo Amino | Ryota Sakurai | ||
| SG | Takehiko Orimo | Ken Takeda | Yusuke Okada | Takuya Kawamura * |
| PG | Takumi Ishizaki | Shinsuke Kashiwagi | Yuta Tabuse * |
* Note: both Tabuse and Kawamura did not participate at the FIBA Asia Championship 2009 in Tianjin, China to try out for teams in the NBA Summer League.[3][4]
[edit] Competitions
[edit] Olympic Games
| Year | Position | Tournament | Host |
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| 1936 | 9 | Basketball at the 1936 Summer Olympics | Berlin, Germany |
| 1956 | 10 | Basketball at the 1956 Summer Olympics | Melbourne, Australia |
| 1960 | 15 | Basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics | Rome, Italy |
| 1964 | 10 | Basketball at the 1964 Summer Olympics | Tokyo, Japan |
| 1972 | 14 | Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics | Munich, Germany |
| 1976 | 11 | Basketball at the 1976 Summer Olympics | Montreal, Canada |
| 2016 | TBD | Basketball at the 2016 Summer Olympics | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
[edit] FIBA World championship
| Year | Position | Tournament | Host |
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| 1963 | 13 | 1963 FIBA World Championship | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 1967 | 11 | 1967 FIBA World Championship | Uruguay |
| 1998 | 14 | 1998 FIBA World Championship | Athens, Greece |
| 2006 | 20 | 2006 FIBA World Championship | Japan |
| 2014 | TBD | 2014 FIBA World Championship | Spain |
[edit] FIBA Asia championship
[edit] Rosters
1936 Olympic Games: finished 13th among 21 teams
Riichi Cho, T.Nakae, S.Ri, K.Yokoyama, T.Kanakogi, M.Maeda, U.Munakata, S.Matsui
1956 Olympic Games: finished 10th among 15 teams
Setsuo Nara, Jose Rodriguez, Kenichi Imaizumi, Hiroshi Saito, Reizo Ohira, Hitoshi Konno, Takashi Itoyama, Manabu Fujita, Takeo Sugiyama, Tetsuro Noborisaka, Riichi Arai (Coach: M.Maeda)
1960 Olympic Games: finished 15th among 16 teams
Setsuo Nara, Shutaro Shoji, Hiroshi Saito, Takashi Itoyama, Takeo Sugiyama, Kenichi Imaizumi, Yasukuni Oshima, Shoji Kamata, Masashi Shiga, Takashi Masuda, Kaoru Wakabayashi, Hideo Kanekawa (Coach: M.Maeda)
1963 World Championship: finished 13th among 13 teams
Setsuo Nara, Takashi Masuda, Masashi Shiga, Yasukuni Oshima, Kaoru Wakabayashi, Keizo Okayama, Isamu Yamaguchi, Yoshikuni Awano, Fumihiko Moroyama, Katsuji Tsunoda, Kunihiko Nakamura, Yoshitaka Egawa (Coach: Shiro Yoshii)
1964 Olympic Games: finished 10th among 16 teams
Takashi Masuda, Setsuo Nara, Masashi Shiga, Kaoru Wakabayashi, Fumihiko Moroyama, Katsuji Tsunoda, Kunihiko Nakamura, Yoshitaka Egawa, Nobuo Kaiho, Akira Kodama, Katsuo Bai, Seiji Fujie (Coach: Shiro Yoshii)
1967 World Championship: finished 11th among 13 teams
Kaoru Wakabayashi, Fumihiko Moroyama, Kunihiko Nakamura, Yoshitaka Egawa, Akira Kodama, Masatomo Taniguchi, Nobuo Hattori, Kenji Soda, Masahiko Yoshida, Isao Kimura, Seiji Igarashi (Coach: Shutaro Shoji)
1972 Olympic Games: finished 14th among 16 teams
Kenji Soda, Masatomo Taniguchi, Nobuo Hattori, Kunihiko Yokoyama, Atsushi Somamoto, Hirofumi Numata, Shigeaki Abe, Mineo Yoshikawa, Kazufumi Sakai, Nobuo Chigusa, Satoshi Mori, Katsuhiko Sugita (Coach: S.Kasahara)
1976 Olympic Games: finished 11th among 12 teams
Hirofumi Numata, Shigeaki Abe, Satoshi Mori, Norihiko Kitahara, Hideki Hamaguchi, Kiyohide Kuwata, Koji Yamamoto, Yutaka Fujimoto, Shigeto Shimizu, Fumio Saito, Nobuo Chigusa, Shoji Yuki (Coach: Masahiko Yoshida)
1998 World Championship: finished 14th among 16 teams
Kenichi Sako, Maikeru Takahashi, Akifumi Yamasaki, Hiroshi Nagano, Makoto Hasegawa, Takehiko Orimo, Satoshi Sakumoto, Hiroyuki Tominaga, Takahiro Setsumasa, Makoto Minamiyama, Takeshi Yuki, Satoru Furuta (Coach: Mototaka Kohama)
2006 World Championship: finished 20th among 24 teams
Takehiko Orimo, Satoru Furuta, Takahiro Setsumasa, Shunsuke Ito, Joji Takeuchi, Kei Igarashi, Shinsuke Kashiwagi, Daiji Yamada, Ryota Sakurai, Kosuke Takeuchi, Takuya Kawamura, Tomoo Amino (Coach: Zeljko Pavlicevic)
[edit] References
- ^ http://beirut2010.fibaasia.net/Team_Details.aspx?id=27
- ^ http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fc/FIBA/fibaStru/nfLeag/nfProf.asp?nationalFederationNumber=309
- ^ Associated Press (May 30, 2009). "Japan's Tabuse leaves national team". ESPN. Associated Press. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4217198. Retrieved 2009-05-30.
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