Japan at the 2004 Summer Paralympics

Japan competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. The team included 162 athletes&mdash;108 men and 54 women. Japanese competitors won 52 medals, 17 gold, 15 silver and 20 bronze, to finish 10th in the medal table.

Men
W 150–133 L 95–103 L 141–142 W 145–144 L 147–151 W 226–206 W 215–0 L 236–223
 * align=left|Koichi Minami
 * align=left|Men's individual W1
 * 617
 * 6
 * N/A
 * N/A
 * colspan=3|Did not advance
 * align=left|Kimimasa Onodera
 * align=left|Men's individual standing
 * 628
 * 2
 * N/A
 * N/A
 * colspan=4|Did not advance
 * align=left|Shinji Sakodo
 * align=left|Men's individual W2
 * 596
 * 15
 * 15
 * colspan=4|Did not advance
 * align=left|Koichi Minami Kimimasa Onodera Shinji Sakodo
 * align=left|Men's team open
 * 1840
 * 3
 * colspan=2 N/A
 * colspan=2 N/A
 * }
 * }

In the men's team open semifinal against United States, a zero score was recorded due to the "infringement of IPC rules".

Women
W 142–101 W 96–95 L 88–96 W 99–90 W 129–128 W 94–85 W 91–89 L 83–97 L 127–154 W 134–126 L 95–99 L 191–197 L 201–213
 * align=left|Nako Hirasawa
 * align=left rowspan=3|Women's individual W1/W2
 * 613 WR
 * 1
 * N/A
 * N/A
 * align=left|Naomi Isozaki
 * 593
 * 3
 * N/A
 * 3
 * N/A
 * align=left|Aya Nakanishi
 * 526
 * 13
 * N/A
 * 13
 * N/A
 * colspan=4|Did not advance
 * align=left|Masako Yonezawa
 * align=left|Women's individual standing
 * 522
 * 11
 * N/A
 * N/A
 * colspan=4|Did not advance
 * align=left|Nako Hirasawa Naomi Isozaki Aya Nakanishi
 * align=left|Women's team open
 * 1732 WR
 * 1
 * colspan=2 N/A
 * Bye
 * Bye
 * 4
 * }

Men's track
Despite being in the bronze medal match, Shigeo Yoshihara and Takuya Oki won the event against Anthony Biddle and Kial Stewart, in the gold medal match, Slovakian cyclists Vladislav Janovjak and Juraj Petrovic were disqualified and were stripped of the silver medals after Petrovic was tested positive for glucocorticosteroid and methylprednisolone.

Goalball
The women's goalball team won a bronze medal after defeating Finland.

Players

 * Mieko Asai
 * Masae Komiya
 * Eriko Kumakawa
 * Yuka Naoi
 * Yuki Naoi
 * Madoka Sano

Men
Sergio Arturo Perez was disqualified and stripped of his gold medal after being found to be tested positive for an inflammatory drug prednisolone. Makoto Hirose was awarded a silver medal.

Volleyball
The men's volleyball team didn't win any medals: they were 7th out 8 teams.

Players

 * Satoshi Kanao
 * Masahiko Kato
 * Yosuke Kurita
 * Kaname Nakayama
 * Yoshihito Takeda
 * Tadashi Tamura
 * Tsutomu Tanabe
 * Koji Tanaka
 * Koki Todo
 * Arata Yamamoto
 * Atsushi Yonezawa
 * Hitoshi Yoshida

Results
No eliminations occur in the preliminaries for ranking purposes

Men's team
The men's basketball team didn't win any medals: they were 8th out of 12 teams.

Players

 * Shingo Fujii
 * Reo Fujimoto
 * Yasuyuki Hasegawa
 * Yasuhiro Jimbo
 * Keisuke Koretomo
 * Kazuyuki Kyoya
 * Katsumi Miyake
 * Noriyuki Mori
 * Tomohiko Oshima
 * Takao Sugasawa
 * Hisanobu Sugiura
 * Naoki Yasu

Women's team
The women's basketball team didn't win any medals: they were 5th out of 8 teams.

Players

 * Sachiko Goto
 * Yasuko Hatano
 * Rie Kawakami
 * Megumi Mashiko
 * Sachiko Minamikawa
 * Junko Sako
 * Tomoe Soeda
 * Naoko Sugahara
 * Mika Takabayashi
 * Kyoko Tsukamoto
 * Chika Uemara
 * Erika Yoshida

Wheelchair rugby
The men's rugby team didn't win any medals: they were 8th out of 8 teams.

Players

 * Masahiro Fukui
 * Satoshi Ito
 * Masanao Kawamura
 * Hiroyuki Misaka
 * Kenichi Mori
 * Takuo Murohashi
 * Shinichi Nakazato
 * Koichi Ogino
 * Yoshito Sato
 * Shinichi Shimakawa
 * Yoshinobu Takahashi
 * Manabu Tamura