Japan competed at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway. Japan returned to the Winter Games after not being invited to the 1948 Winter Olympics because of the nation's role in World War II.
Alpine skiing
Men
AthleteEventRace 1Race 2TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankHisashi MizugamiDownhillDSQ–Chiharu Igaya2:45.024Hisashi MizugamiGiant Slalom2:40.926Chiharu Igaya2:36.120Hishashi MizugamiSlalom1:12.852did not advanceChiharu Igaya1:02.614 Q1:03.1102:05.711
Cross-country skiing
Men EventAthleteRaceTimeRank18 kmRyoichi Fujisawa1'14:4161Kenichi Yamamoto1'08:4922
Nordic combined
Events: 18 km cross-country skiing normal hill ski jumping
The cross-country skiing part of this event was combined with the main medal event, meaning that athletes competing here were skiing for two disciplines at the same time. Details can be found above in this article, in the cross-country skiing section.
The ski jumping (normal hill) event was held separate from the main medal event of ski jumping, results can be found in the table below (athletes were allowed to perform three jumps, the best two jumps were counted and are shown here).
AthleteEventCross-countrySki JumpingTotalPointsRankDistance 1Distance 2PointsRankPointsRankRyoichi FujisawaIndividual195.3331861.563.0201.010396.33314
Ski jumping
AthleteEventJump 1Jump 2TotalDistancePointsRankDistancePointsRankPointsRankKozo KawashimaNormal hill59.5 (fall)59.04356.089.040148.042Ryoichi Fujisawa57.593.53455.590.038183.534Tatsuo Watanabe59.095.03059.094.027189.027Hiroshi Yoshizawa59.595.03056.587.542182.536
Speed skating
Men EventAthleteRaceTimeRank500 mTsuneo Sato45.218Sukenobu Kudo44.915Masanori Aoki44.812Kiyotaka Takabayashi44.161500 mKiyotaka Takabayashi2:32.034Sukenobu Kudo2:31.633Masanori Aoki2:26.923Tsuneo Sato2:23.9115000 mKazuhiko Sugawara8:44.415Yoshiyasu Gomi8:38.61010,000 mYoshiyasu Gomi17:53.014Kazuhiko Sugawara17:34.07
References
Olympic Winter Games 1952, full results by sports-reference.com