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
| width="56%" align="left" valign="top" | MedalNameSportEventDate Shingo TerukinaYusuke KawaiShotaro HaraguchiYuki NakaharaNaoya MatsuoTeruki TabataTakaaki ObaTakuya AkagumaTakasuke GotoOzu 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
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Medals by sportSport TotalBeach soccer1001Bodybuilding0123Beach sambo0112Beach wrestling0022Pétanque0011Vovinam0011 Total 1 2 7 10
Competitors
| width=78% align=left valign=top | The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games. SportMenWomenTotalBodybuilding 3 0 3Beach handball 10 10 20Beach sambo 4 1 5Beach soccer 10 0 10Beach volleyball 2 2 4Beach wrestling 1 2 3Pétanque 4 4 8Vovinam 0 1 1 Total 34 20 54
Beach soccer
Result TeamEventGroup stageQuarter-finalsSemi-finalsGold medal matchOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankJapan men'sMen's tournament AfghanistanW 11–0 ChinaW 7–2 1 Q UAEW 6–2 LebanonW 6–5 OmanW 4–3
Team Shingo Terukina Yusuke Kawai Shotaro Haraguchi Yuki Nakahara Naoya Matsuo Teruki Tabata Takaaki Oba Takuya Akaguma Takasuke Goto Ozu Moreira
Beach volleyball
Men's tournament TeamEventGroup stageQuarter-finalsSemi-finalsGold medal matchOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankMasato KurasakaMomota ShimadaMen's tournament Al-Shereiqi/Al-HousniL 13–21, 13-21 Sukto/KhaolumtarnW 21-19, 21-17 3 did not advance
Women's tournament Group Stage TeamEventGroup stageOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankAzusa FutamiReika MurakamiWomen's tournament Tang/WangL 22-20, 13-21, 10-15 Lakmini/WeerasingheW 21–16, 21–13 Numwong/NaraphornrapatL 17–21, 8–21 Gorre/ArochaW 21-13, 21-5 Tứ/LêW 21–16, 18–21, 15–11 3 Q
Knockout Stage TeamRound of 16Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsGold medal matchRankAzusa FutamiReika Murakami Ratnasari/EkaW 19-21, 21-18, 15–8 Mashkova/TsimbalovaL 15-21, 14-15did not advance
Pétanque
Men 1. Shooting Haruki Kato
2. Singles Takayuki Watabe
3. Doubles Hiroshi Katata Yoshihiro Noda
Women 1. Shooting Keiko Katata
2. Singles Ayumi Goma
3. Doubles Akemi Kinoshita Rieko Ujihara
Vovinam
AthleteEventScoreRankYoshimi SadamatsuDragon-tiger form261
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