The Japan men's national water polo team is the representative for Japan in international men's water polo.

Results Olympic Games

1932 – 4th place 1936 – 14th place 1960 – 14th place 1964 – 11th place 1968 – 12th place 1972 – 15th place 1984 – 11th place 2016 – 12th place 2020 – 10th place 2024 – 11th place

World Championship

2001 – 16th place 2003 – 15th place 2005 – 14th place 2007 – 16th place 2011 – 11th place 2015 – 13th place 2017 – 10th place 2019 – 11th place 2022 – 9th place 2023 – 11th place 2024 – 13th place 2025 – 9th place

World Cup 2018 – 7th place 2025 – 8th place

World League

2006 – 15th place 2007 – 16th place 2008 – 11th place 2009 – 7th place 2010 – 11th place 2011 – 10th place 2012 – 11th place 2013 – 7th place 2014 – Intercontinental Preliminary round 2015 – Intercontinental Preliminary round 2016 – 6th place 2017 – 8th place 2018 – 4th place 2019 – 6th place 2020 – 5th place

Asian Games

1954 – Silver medal 1958 – Gold medal 1962 – Gold medal 1966 – Gold medal 1970 – Gold medal 1974 – Silver medal 1978 – Silver medal 1982 – Silver medal 1990 – Silver medal 1994 – Silver medal 1998 – 4th 2002 – Silver medal 2006 – Silver medal 2010 – Silver medal 2014 – Silver medal 2018 – Silver medal 2023 – Gold medal

Asian Swimming Championships

2012 – Silver medal 2016 – Gold medal

Asian Water Polo Championship

2009 – Bronze medal 2012 – Bronze medal 2015 – Gold medal

Current squad Roster for the 2025 World Championships.

Head coach: Yoshinori Shiota

1 Towa Nishimura 2 Seiya Adachi 3 Taiyo Watanabe 4 Toshiyuki Maeda 5 Enishi Ura 6 Toi Suzuki 7 Kiyomu Date 8 Mitsuru Takata 9 Ikkei Nitta 10 Yusuke Inaba 11 Daichi Ogihara 12 Kenta Araki 13 Ren Sasano 14 Jun Lowrey 15 Yuki Moriya

See also Japan men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics

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