Japan at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Japan competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. Shizuka Arakawa won the country's only medal, a gold, in women's figure skating. She was the first person born and raised in Asia to become an Olympic champion in that event. Athletes representing Japan participated in all but one of the 2006 Olympics' 15 sports, with Ice hockey the only exception.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
		Figure skating	Ladies' singles	February 23

Biathlon

;Men
;Women

Cross-country skiing

;Distance
;Sprint

Curling

Women's

Team: Ayumi Onodera, Yumie Hayashi, Mari Motohashi, Moe Meguro, Sakurako Terada
;Round Robin
;Draw 2
;Draw 3
;Draw 4
;Draw 5
;Draw 8
;Draw 9
;Draw 10
;Draw 11
;Draw 12
;Standings

Rank

Team

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Won

Lost

Sweden|2006 Winter

Figure skating

Key: CD = Compulsory Dance, FD = Free Dance, FS = Free Skate, OD = Original Dance, SP = Short Program

Freestyle skiing

;Men
;Women

Nordic combined

Note: 'Deficit' refers to the amount of time behind the leader a competitor began the cross-country portion of the event. Italicized numbers show the final deficit from the winner's finishing time.

Ski jumping

Note: PQ indicates a skier was pre-qualified for the final, based on entry rankings.

Snowboarding

;Halfpipe
;Men
;Women
Note: In the final, the single best score from two runs is used to determine the ranking. A bracketed score indicates a run that wasn't counted.
;Parallel GS
Key: '+ Time' represents a deficit; the brackets indicate the results of each run.
;Snowboard Cross

Speed skating

;Men
;Women
;Team Pursuit