Japan men's national ice hockey team

Japan
Association	Japan Ice Hockey Federation
Head coach	Mark Mahon
Assistants	Chris Wakabayashi
Captain	Takahito Suzuki
Most games	Takahito Suzuki (75)
Most points	Takahito Suzuki (57)
IIHF code	JPN
IIHF ranking	22
Highest IIHF ranking	15 (first in 2003)
Lowest IIHF ranking	22 (first in 2007)
First international
	Czechoslovakia 12 - 2 Japan ; (Davos, Switzerland; January 24, 1930)
Biggest win
	Japan 44 - 1 Kuwait ; (Gangneung, South Korea; January 30, 1999)
Biggest defeat
	Czechoslovakia 25 - 1 Japan ; (Moscow, Soviet Union; March 4, 1957)
IIHF World Championships
Appearances	43 (first in 1930)
Best result	8th (1930, 1957)
Asian Winter Games
Appearances	7 (first in 1986)
Best result	Gold: 2003, 2007
Olympics
Appearances	8 (first in 1936)
International record (W–L–T)
	219-343-34

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Redirected from Japan national ice hockey team)

Jump to: navigation, search

The Japanese men's national ice hockey team is the national men's ice hockey of Japan. They are currently ranked 22nd in the IIHF World Ranking and currently compete in IIHF World Championship Division I. They have competed in nine Olympic Games competitions.

[edit] 2011 Asian Winter Games Roster^[1]

Pos.	No.	Player	Team
G	44	Yutaka Fukufuji	Nikkō Ice Bucks
G	61	Masahito Haruna	Oji Eagles
D	2	Jun Tonosaki	Nippon Paper Cranes
D	4	Aaron Keller	Oji Eagles
D	6	Makoto Kawashima	Oji Eagles
D	12	Yosuke Haga	Oji Eagles
D	20	Takafumi Yamashita	Oji Eagles
D	23	Hideyuki Osawa	Nippon Paper Cranes
D	77	Shinya Yanadori	Nippon Paper Cranes
F	7	Masato Domeki	Oji Eagles
F	8	Yosuke Kon	Oji Eagles
F	9	Masahito Suzuki	Tohoku Free Blades
F	11	Masahito Nishiwaki	Nippon Paper Cranes
F	13	Masafumi Ogawa	Oji Eagles
F	14	Go Tanaka	Tohoku Free Blades
F	18	Takahito Suzuki	Nikkō Ice Bucks
F	19	Takeshi Saito	Oji Eagles
F	21	Shuhei Kuji	Oji Eagles
F	25	Shunsuke Shigeno	Chuo University
F	28	Hiroki Ueno	High1
F	30	Bin Ishioka	Tohoku Free Blades
F	40	Takuma Kawai	Tohoku Free Blades

[edit] Team Japan players at the 1998 Nagano Olympics

Head coach Bjorn Kinding
General Manager Dave King

[edit] Winter Olympics record

1936 - 9th place (tied)
1960 - 8th place
1964 - 11th place
1968 - 10th place
1972 - 9th place
1976 - 9th place
1980 - 12th place
1998 - 13th place

[edit] World Championship record

Note: Years in Bold denote participation in the top-level tournament

1930 - Finished tied in 6th place
1931 - 1955 - Did not participate
1957 - Finished in 8th place
1958 - 1961 - Did not participate
1962 - Finished in 9th place (1st in "Pool B")
1963 - 1966 - Did not participate
1967 - Finished in 17th place (1st in "Pool C")
1969 - Finished in 15th place (1st in "Pool C")
1970 - Finished in 11th place (5th in "Pool B")
1971 - Finished in 12th place (6th in "Pool B")
1972 - Finished in 11th place (5th in "Pool B")
1973 - Finished in 12th place (6th in "Pool B")
1974 - Finished in 10th place (4th in "Pool B")
1975 - Finished in 12th place (6th in "Pool B")
1976 - Finished in 10th place (2nd in "Pool B")
1977 - Finished in 11th place (3rd in "Pool B")
1978 - Finished in 10th place (2nd in "Pool B")
1979 - Finished in 14th place (6th in "Pool B")
1981 - Finished in 16th place (8th in "Pool B")
1982 - Finished in 17th place (1st in "Pool C")
1983 - Finished in 13th place (5th in "Pool B")
1985 - Finished in 13th place (5th in "Pool B")
1986 - Finished in 15th place (8th in "Pool B")
1987 - Finished in 17th place (1st in "Pool C")
1989 - Finished in 15th place (7th in "Pool B")
1990 - Finished in 15th place (7th in "Pool B")
1991 - Finished in 16th place (8th in "Pool B")
1992 - Finished in 15th place (3rd in "Pool B")
1993 - Finished in 17th place (5th in "Pool B")
1994 - Finished in 16th place (4th in "Pool B")
1995 - Finished in 18th place (6th in "Pool B")
1996 - Finished in 20th place (8th in "Pool B")
1997 - Finished in 24th place (4th in "Pool C")
1998 - Finished in 14th place
1999 - Finished in 16th place
2000 - Finished in 16th place
2001 - Finished in 16th place
2002 - Finished in 16th place
2003 - Finished in 16th place
2004 - Finished in 15th place
2005 - Finished in 25th place (5th in Division I, Group A)
2006 - Finished in 22nd place (3rd in Division I, Group A)
2007 - Finished in 22nd place (3rd in Division I, Group B)
2008 - Finished in 21st place (3rd in Division I, Group B)
2009 - Finished in 21st place (3rd in Division I, Group A)
2010 - Finished in 21st place (3rd in Division I, Group A)
2011 - Withdrew from tournament

[edit] Asian Winter Games record

1986 - Finished in 2nd place
1990 - Finished in 2nd place
1996 - Finished in 2nd place
1999 - Finished in 2nd place
2003 - Finished in 1st place
2007 - Finished in 1st place
2011 - Finished in 2nd place

[edit] All-time Record against other nations

As of June 6, 2009

Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA
China	29	23	2	4	200	70
Denmark	30	19	1	10	143	95
South Korea	16	15	1	0	150	23
Yugoslavia	30	14	2	14	118	128
Norway	36	13	7	16	123	151
Netherlands	25	13	4	8	138	82
Romania	23	12	1	10	106	98
Austria	32	11	4	17	111	130
France	26	11	1	14	93	105
North Korea	11	11	0	0	93	19
Hungary	17	11	0	6	75	47
Switzerland	31	9	3	19	93	141
Bulgaria	11	8	0	3	66	29
Italy	26	7	3	16	75	106
Australia	7	7	0	0	93	17
Poland	34	4	2	28	77	184
Great Britain	9	4	1	4	27	28
Lithuania	4	4	0	0	19	3
Canada	40	3	3	34	76	218
East Germany	16	3	1	12	45	89
Kazakhstan	11	2	2	7	26	39
Croatia	2	2	0	0	10	1
West Germany	9	2	0	7	27	54
Estonia	2	1	1	0	9	5
Slovenia	6	1	1	4	14	24
Kuwait	1	1	0	0	44	1
Thailand	1	1	0	0	39	0
Belgium	1	1	0	0	24	0
Spain	1	1	0	0	11	2
Israel	1	1	0	0	7	1
Ukraine	6	0	2	4	7	23
Belarus	5	0	1	4	10	22
Finland	7	0	1	6	15	57
Russia	1	0	0	1	1	6
Czech Republic	4	0	0	4	10	31
Sweden	4	0	0	4	1	44
Slovakia	6	0	0	6	12	47
Germany	8	0	0	8	14	43
Latvia	8	0	0	8	14	58
United States	8	0	0	8	20	77
Soviet Union	9	0	0	9	23	111
Czechoslovakia	9	0	0	9	12	108