Japan national basketball team
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| FIBA ranking | 48  1 |
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| Joined FIBA | 1936 | ||
| FIBA zone | FIBA Asia | ||
| National federation | Japan Basketball Association | ||
| Coach | Luka Pavićević (interim) | ||
| Olympic Games | |||
| Appearances | 6 (First in 1936) | ||
| Medals | None | ||
| FIBA World Cup | |||
| Appearances | 4 (First in 1963) | ||
| Medals | None | ||
| Asian Championships | |||
| Appearances | 27 (First in 1960) | ||
| Medals |
 Gold: 1965, 1971 Silver: 1969, 1975, 1979, 1983, 1997 Bronze: 1960, 1967, 1977, 1981, 1987, 1991, 1995
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| Asian Games | |||
| Appearances | 16 (First in 1951) | ||
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Silver: 1951, 1962 Bronze: 1954, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2014
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The Japanese national basketball team represents Japan in international basketball competitions. It is administered by the Japan Basketball Association (JBA). (Japanese: 日本バスケットボール協会) A 1936 founding member of FIBA Asia, Japan has one of Asia's longest basketball traditions.
Japan has one of the most successful basketball teams in Asia. It has won the Asian Basketball Championships twice and is the second leading nation in qualifications to the event. The team qualified for the Olympic Games six times and for the FIBA World Cup four times.
Japan has traditionally brought forth several of Asia's elite basketball players who competed in the NBA and in Europe. These players include Yuta Tabuse, J.R. Sakuragi, Takuya Kawamura, Takumi Ishizaki and others. However, for about two decades, they rarely played for the national team, which caused Team Japan to fall behind Asia's elite competition from Iran, South Korea, Philippines and China.
In 2014, Yuta Tabuse and several of Japan's top players returned to the national team and helped to reach its best finish in almost 20 years.
Japan's national team had its first international tournament at the 3rd Far Eastern Games held in Tokyo in 1917. Japan representative at this time was the team of the Kyoto YMCA. Later, the team was a founding member of the Olympics Basketball competition in Berlin 1936. Henceforth, they participated almost every time until 1976. Team Japan was a regular at world tournaments. It had its debut at the FIBA World Championship in 1963. It was the top team in Asia, as it won the championship there in 1965 and 1971. Since the rise of China, Japan declined a little bit and appearances at global events became scarcer.
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