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.
Medalists
| width=78% align=left valign=top | Medal Name Sport Event Date Athletics Men's triple jump August 6 Kitei Son Athletics Men's marathonBoth Sohn Kee-chung (Kitei Son) and Nam Sung-yong (Shōryu Nan) were Koreans, but since Korea was a Japanese colony at the time, they were required to use their legal and official names in Japanese pronunciations and are recorded under the Japanese spellings in the Olympic recordsIOC biography of Son Kitei August 9 Swimming Women's 200 m breaststroke August 11 Shigeo SugiuraMasaharu TaguchiMasanori Yusa Swimming Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay August 11 Swimming Men's 200 m breaststroke August 15 Swimming Men's 1500 m freestyle August 15 Athletics Men's pole vault August 5 Athletics Men's triple jump August 6 Swimming Men's 100 m freestyle August 9 Swimming Men's 400 m freestyle August 12 Athletics Men's long jump August 4 Sueo Ōe Athletics Men's pole vault August 5 Shōryū Nan Athletics Men's marathon August 9 Swimming Men's 100 m freestyle August 9 Swimming Men's 400 m freestyle August 12 Swimming Men's 100 m backstroke August 14 Swimming Men's 200 m breaststroke August 15 Swimming Men's 1500 m freestyle August 15
| width=22% align=left valign=top | Medals by sportSport TotalSwimming 4 2 511Athletics 2 2 37 Total 6 4 8 18
Athletics
Aquatics Swimming
Men Ranks given are within the heat. AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankShigeo Arai100 m freestyle 57.7 1 Q 57.9 2 Q 58.0 Masaharu Taguchi 57.5 1 Q 57.9 1 Q 58.1 4Masanori Yusa 57.8 1 Q 57.5 = 1 Q 57.9 Shozo Makino400 m freestyle 4:51.3 1 Q 4:48.2 =1 Q 4:48.1 Hiroshi Negami 4:52.6 1 Q 4:55.4 3 Q 4:53.6 5Shunpei Uto 4:45.5 1 Q 4:48.4 1 Q 4:45.6 Sunao Ishiharada1500 m freestyle 19:55.8 1 Q 19.53.9 2 Q 19:48.5 4Noboru Terada 19:55.5 =1 Q 19:48.6 1 Q 19:13.7 Shunpei Uto 19:48.3 1 Q 19:55.6 3 Q 19:34.5 Masaji Kiyokawa100 m backstroke 1:07.2 2 Q 1:09.7 2 Q 1:08.4 Yasuhiko Kojima 1:09.7 1 Q 1:09.9 3 Q 1:10.4 6Kiichi Yoshida 1:10.0 1 Q 1:09.5 4 q 1:09.7 5Tetsuo Hamuro200 m breaststroke 2:42.5 1 Q 2:43.4 1 Q 2:41.5 Saburo Ito 2:45.8 1 Q 2:45.5 3 Q 2:47.6 5Reizo Koike 2:43.8 1 Q 2:44.5 1 Q 2:44.2 Masanori YusaShigeo SugiuraMasaharu TaguchiShigeo Arai4 × 200 m freestyle relay colspan=2 8:56.1 1 Q 8:51.5
Women Ranks given are within the heat. AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTsuneko Furuta100 m freestyle 1:14.6 6 Did not advanceKazue Kojima 1:11.0 2 Q 1:11.1 7 Q Did not advanceRei Takemura 1:14.6 7 Did not advanceKazue Kojima400 m freestyle 5:50.4 3 Q 5:43.5 3 Q 5:43.1 6Hatsuko Morioka 5:51.0 4 q 5:49.1 6 Did not advanceHideko Maehata200 m breaststroke 3:01.9 1 Q 3:03.1 1 Q 3:03.6 Unoko Tsuboi 3:15.0 3 Q 3:18.4 6 Did not advanceTsuneko FurutaKazue KojimaHatsuko MoriokaRei Takemura4 × 100 m freestyle relay colspan=2 4:58.1 NR 4 Did not advance
Diving
Men AthleteEventFinalPointsRankTomio Koyanagi3 m springboard133.078Tsuneo Shibahara144.924Tomio Koyanagi10 m platform94.548Tsuneo Shibahara107.406
Women AthleteEventFinalPointsRankFusako Kōno3 m springboard70.278Masayo Ōsawa73.946Fusako Kōno10 m platform30.246Masayo Ōsawa28.1014Reiko Ōsawa32.534
Water polo
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
RankTeamPldWDLGFGAPts 1.33002736 X8:16:113:12.320112104 1:8X3:28:03.31027122 1:62:3X4:34.30034250 1:130:83:4X
Place:14th
Basketball First Round
Second Round
Third Round
Equestrian
Football
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Field hockey
Group A
Gymnastics
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 Mii
Wrestling
Art competitions
References
External links Official Olympic Reports International Olympic Committee results database