Wheelchair Basketball - Team Japan

General
Japan qualified for the 2020 Games as hosts and have competed at every edition of the Paralympic Games since 1976. They have never won a Paralympic medal, with a seventh-place finish at Beijing 2008 their best result this century.

In Rio in 2016, their record of one win and four losses meant they finished fifth in Group A and did not advance to the quarterfinals. Instead, they battled the Islamic Republic of Iran in the classification match for ninth place, emerging 65-52 victors.

At the 2018 World Championship in Germany, Japan topped their group before narrowly losing to Spain 52-50 in the round of 16. They went on to beat the Netherlands by a one-point margin in a classification match to finish the tournament in ninth place.