Japan competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. 306 competitors, 157 men and 149 women, took part in 168 events in 27 sports. Medalists | width="78%" align="left" valign="top" | | width=22% align=left valign=top | Archery In the nation's sixth Olympic archery competition, three of Japan's five archers won their first matches. All three lost in the second round, however. Women's Individual Competition: Kinue Kodama → Round of 32, 24th place (1-1) Ai Ouchi → Round of 64, 41st place (0-1) Misato Koide → Round of 64, 56th place (0-1) Men's Individual Competition: Hiroshi Yamamoto → Round of 32, 19th place (1-1) Takayoshi Matsushita → Round of 32, 27th place (1-1) Women's Team Competition: Kodama, Ouchi, and Koide → Round of 16, 14th place (0-1) Athletics Men's 100 metres Nobuharu Asahara Hiroyasu Tsuchie Men's 200 metres Koji Ito Takahiro Mazuka Men's 400 metres Shigekazu Omori Men's 10,000 metres Toshinari Takaoka Katsuhiko Hanada Men's 4 × 100 metres Relay Nobuharu Asahara Hiroyasu Tsuchie Koji Ito Satoru Inoue Men's 4 × 400 metres Relay Shunji Karube, Koji Ito, Jun Osakada, and Shigekazu Omori Heat — 3:02.82 Semi Final — 3:01.92 Final — 3:00.76 (→ 5th place) Men's 400m Hurdles Shunji Karube Heat — 48.96s (→ did not advance) Hideaki Kawamura Heat — 49.88s (→ did not advance) Kazuhiko Yamazaki Heat — 49.07s (→ did not advance) Men's Marathon Hiromi Taniguchi — 2:17.26 (→ 19th place) Masaki Oya — 2:22.13 (→ 54th place) Kenjiro Jitsui — 2:33.27 (→ 93rd place) Men's 20 km Walk Daisuke Ikeshima — 1:24.54 (→ 22nd place) Men's 50 km Walk Tadahiro Kosaka — 4:05.57 (→ 29th place) Men's High Jump Tomohiro Nomura Men's Long Jump Nobuharu Asahara Qualification — 7.46m (→ did not advance) Men's Pole Vault Teruyasu Yonekura Women's 5,000 metres Michiko Shimizu Harumi Hiroyama Yoshiko Ichikawa Women's 10,000 metres Masako Chiba Qualification — 31:37.03 Final — 31:20.62 (→ 5th place) Yuko Kawakami Qualification — 32:31.69 Final — 31:23.23 (→ 7th place) Hiromi Suzuki Qualification — 31:54.89 Final — 32:43.39 (→ 16th place) Women's Marathon Yuko Arimori — 2:28.39 (→ Bronze Medal) Izumi Maki — 2:32.35 (→ 12th place) Junko Asari — 2:34.31 (→ 17th place) Women's 100 metres Hurdles Yvonne Kanazawa Women's 10 km Walk Yuka Mitsumori — dsq (→ no ranking) Women's Javelin Throw Akiko Miyajima Qualification — 53.98m (→ did not advance) Badminton Baseball Defending bronze medalist Japan competed for the second