Japan competed at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, United States.
Alpine skiing
Men
AthleteEventRace 1Race 2TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankMasayoshi MitaniDownhill2:31.353Osamu Tada2:28.546Chiharu Igaya2:25.034Takashi TakedaGiant Slalom2:13.444Osamu Tada2:06.535Masayoshi Mitani2:05.633Chiharu Igaya1:55.823Takashi TakedaSlalom1:26.7431:29.3352:56.033Masayoshi Mitani1:23.836DSQ–DSQ–Osamu Tada1:17.2221:26.8342:44.026Chiharu Igaya1:10.961:09.3192:20.212
Cross-country skiing
Men EventAthleteRaceTimeRank15 kmEiji Kurita58:57.045Takashi Matsuhashi57:49.140Kazuo Sato56:15.03030 kmEiji Kurita2'11:25.839Kazuo Sato2'07:07.237Takashi Matsuhashi2'06:25.53550 kmKazuo SatoDNF–Eiji Kurita3'38:40.627
Men's 4 × 10 km relay AthletesRaceTimeRankTakashi MatsuhashiKazuo SatoEiji KuritaAkemi Taniguchi2'36:44.910
Figure skating
Men AthleteCFFSPointsPlacesRank Nabuo Sato11171206.812014
Women AthleteCFFSPointsPlacesRank Miwa Fukuhara19221134.718821 Junko Ueno15201176.515817
Ice hockey
Group A Top two teams (shaded ones) from each group advanced to the final round and played for 1st-6th places, other teams played in the consolation round. RankTeamPldWLTGFGAPts122002434221102152320201380
Canada 19-1 Japan Sweden 19-0 Japan
Consolation round TeamPldWLTGFGAPts430150117 8th42113222540408570
Finland 6-6 Japan Japan 13-2 Australia Finland 11-2 Japan Japan 11-3 Australia
Contestants Chikashi Akazawa Shinichi Honma Toshiei Honma Hidenori Inatsu Atsuo Irie Joji Iwaoka Takashi Kakihara Yoshihiro Miyazaki Masao Murano Isao Ono Akiyoshi Segawa Shigeru Shimada Kunito Takagi Mamoru Takashima Masami Tanabu Shoichi Tomita Toshihiko Yamada
Nordic combined
Events: normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.) 15 km cross-country skiing
AthleteEventSki JumpingCross-countryTotalDistance 1Distance 2PointsRankTimePointsRankPointsRankRikio YoshidaIndividual57.064.0202.017DNF––DNF–Yosuke Eto62.068.0218.531'05:51.4211.48423429.98415Akemi Taniguchi58.562.0194.0261'04:52.9215.22620409.22624Takashi Matsui62.061.0198.522DNF––DNF–
Ski jumping
AthleteEventJump 1Jump 2TotalDistancePointsRankDistancePointsRankPointsRankTakashi MatsuiNormal hill78.592.63375.097.029189.630Koichi Sato82.098.42478.0101.920200.322Yosuke Eto85.5102.21772.595.534197.725Sadao Kikuchi88.5104.11377.0102.119206.215
Speed skating
Men EventAthleteRaceTimeRank500 mShinkichi Takemura45.943Takeo Mizoo43.736Yoshitaki Hori41.816Fumio Nagakubo41.191500 mShuji Kobayashi2:23.034Takeo Mizoo2:22.633Toshitaki Hori2:21.729Fumio Nagakubo2:18.7215000 mShuji Kobayashi8:29.824Takeo Mizoo8:28.72310,000 mTakeo Mizoo17:42.025Shuji Kobayashi17:20.821
Women EventAthleteRaceTimeRank500 mYoshiko Takano50.319Fumie Hama47.48Hatsue Nagakubo-Takamizawa46.651000 mYoshiko Takano1:39.916Fumie Hama1:36.17Hatsue Nagakubo-Takamizawa1:35.851500 mHatsue Nagakubo-Takamizawa2:43.719Yoshiko Takano2:34.012Fumie Hama2:33.3103000 mYoshiko Takano5:30.910Hatsue Nagakubo-Takamizawa5:21.44
References Official Olympic Reports Japan Olympic Committee database Olympic Winter Games 1960, full results by sports-reference.com