Japan at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Japan competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. The country's delegation included a women's goalball team, men's and women's sitting volleyball teams, men's and women's wheelchair basketball teams, a wheelchair rugby team, and one wheelchair fencer.

Men
L 83–109 L 94–100 L 96–100 L 80–93 W 89–74 L 98–106 W 188–183 L 188–201 L 194–207
 * align=left|Akira Haraguchi
 * rowspan=3 align=left|Men's individual recurve standing
 * 557
 * 20
 * 20
 * colspan=5|did not advance
 * align=left|Takahiro Hasegawa
 * 611
 * 7
 * Bye
 * Bye
 * colspan=4|did not advance
 * align=left|Kimimasa Onodera
 * 620
 * 5
 * Bye
 * Bye
 * colspan=4|did not advance
 * align=left|Tsunehiko Naganuma
 * rowspan=2 align=left|Men's individual recurve W1/W2
 * 576
 * 20
 * 20
 * colspan=5|did not advance
 * align=left|Nobuji Yoshida
 * 560
 * 22
 * 22
 * colspan=4|did not advance
 * align=left|Takahiro Hasegawa Tsunehiko Naganuma Kimimasa Onodera
 * align=left|Men's team recurve
 * 1807
 * 4
 * colspan=2 N/A
 * colspan=2 N/A
 * 4
 * }

Women
W 107–106 W 106–104 L 98–112 L 90–93 L 79–85 W 82–78 W 82–74 W 90–84 L 76–82 L 94–98 W 86–76 L 90–96 L 167–174
 * align=left|Chieko Kamiya
 * align=left|Women's individual compound open
 * 627
 * 7
 * colspan=2 N/A
 * colspan=2 N/A
 * align=left|Kimiko Konishi
 * rowspan=2 align=left|Women's individual recurve standing
 * 536
 * 12
 * N/A
 * 12
 * N/A
 * colspan=4|did not advance
 * align=left|Yae Yamakawa
 * 561
 * 8
 * N/A
 * N/A
 * colspan=4|did not advance
 * align=left|Aya Nakanishi
 * rowspan=2 align=left|Women's individual recurve W1/W2
 * 447
 * 19
 * 19
 * 4
 * align=left|Ayako Saitoh
 * 543
 * 9
 * Bye
 * Bye
 * colspan=3|did not advance
 * align=left|Kimiko Konishi Ayako Saitoh Yae Yamakawa
 * align=left|Women's team recurve
 * 1640
 * 3
 * colspan=2 N/A
 * colspan=2 N/A
 * colspan=3|did not advance
 * }

Goalball
The women's goalball team didn't win any medals; they were in seventh place in the preliminary stage.

Players

 * Akiko Adachi
 * Mieko Kato
 * Masae Komiya
 * Yuki Naoi
 * Tomoe Takada
 * Rie Urata

Men's tournament
The men's volleyball team didn't win any medals; they were 8th out of 8 teams.
 * Players
 * Shun Azuma
 * Satoshi Kanao
 * Susumu Kaneda
 * Tetsuo Minakawa
 * Kaname Nakayama
 * Susumu Takasago
 * Yoshihito Takeda
 * Tsutomu Tanabe
 * Koji Tanaka
 * Arata Yamamoto
 * Atsushi Yonezawa
 * Hitoshi Yoshida


 * Results


 * 5–8th Semifinals


 * 7–8th Classification

Women's tournament
The women's volleyball team didn't win any medals; they were 8th out of 8 teams.
 * Players
 * Sachie Awano
 * Junko Fujii
 * Noriko Kaneda
 * Emi Kaneki
 * Yukari Okahira
 * Shiori Omura
 * Mamiko Osada
 * Yoko Saito
 * Haruni Sakamoto
 * Tomoko Sakamoto
 * Kiyoko Tomiya


 * Results


 * 5–8th Semifinals


 * 7th–8th Classification

Men's tournament
The men's basketball team didn't win any medals; they were 7th out of 12 teams.
 * Players
 * Shingo Fujii
 * Reo Fujimoto
 * Keisuke Koretomo
 * Hiroaki Kozai
 * Kazuyuki Kyoya
 * Kenzo Maeda
 * Fumiharu Miura
 * Tetsuya Miyajima
 * Noriyuki Mori
 * Tomohiko Oshima
 * Satoshi Sato
 * Akimasa Suzuki


 * Results


 * Quarterfinals


 * 5–8th Classification


 * 7th–8th Classification

Women's tournament
The women's basketball team didn't win any medals; they were defeated by Australia in the bronze medal match.
 * Players
 * Mari Amimoto
 * Yuka Betto
 * Rie Kawakami
 * Tomomi Kosuzuki
 * Megumi Mashiko
 * Naoko Sugahara
 * Tomoe Soeda
 * Mika Takabayashi
 * Ikumi Takudo
 * Kimi Taneda
 * Miki Uramoto
 * Erika Yoshida


 * Tournament


 * Quarterfinals


 * Semifinals


 * Bronze medal game