Japan at the 2016 Asian Beach Games

Japan competed in the 2016 Asian Beach Games in Danang, Vietnam from September 24 to October 5, 2016. The delegation was bannered by 54 athletes. Japan send their representatives in 7 sports including beach soccer, beach volleyball, beach handball, beach wrestling, vovinam, pétanque, and bodybuilding.
The Japanese beach soccer team won the gold medal, being the Japanese team's only gold medal in this game. Bodybuilding took home one silver and two bronze medals, followed by beach sambo which won one silver and one bronze. Beach wrestling won two bronze medals, while pétanque and vovinam bagged one bronze medal each.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
	Shingo Terukina Yusuke Kawai Shotaro Haraguchi Yuki Nakahara Naoya Matsuo Teruki Tabata Takaaki Oba Takuya Akaguma Takasuke Goto Ozu Moreira	Beach soccer	Tournaments
	Takahiro Mizoguchi	Bodybuilding	Men's 158 cm
	Haruka Murase	Beach sambo	Men's 74 kg
	Ayumi Goma	Pétanque	Women's singles
	Hiroaki Inoue	Bodybuilding	Men's 172 cm
	Shunsuke Taguchi	Bodybuilding	Men's 180 cm
	Hikaru Aono	Beach wrestling	Women's 50 kg
	Miku Saito	Beach wrestling	Women's +70 kg
	Takehiro Yamashita	Beach sambo	Men's 74 kg
	Yoshimi Sadamatsu	Vovinam	Dragon tiger form

The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games.

Shingo Terukina
Yusuke Kawai
Shotaro Haraguchi
Yuki Nakahara
Naoya Matsuo
Teruki Tabata
Takaaki Oba
Takuya Akaguma
Takasuke Goto
Ozu Moreira

Group Stage
Knockout Stage

1. Shooting

Haruki Kato
2. Singles

Takayuki Watabe
3. Doubles

Hiroshi Katata

Yoshihiro Noda

1. Shooting

Keiko Katata
2. Singles

Ayumi Goma
3. Doubles

Akemi Kinoshita

Rieko Ujihara

Athlete	Event	Score	Rank
Yoshimi Sadamatsu	Dragon-tiger form	261