USA v Japan
Japan Beat USA 3-1 on penalties . The score was 2-2 aet.
Naoko Takahashi of Japan in a time of 2:23:14, the current Olympic record.
Shizuka Arakawa of Japan won the women's figure skating gold in the 2006 Turin Olympic Games.
Japan was last eliminated in the Men's and France for the Women's
As of the 2008 Bejing Olympics the following countries have won a gold medal in volleyball at the olympics: United States 3 mens 3 mens beach 2 womens beach Soviet Union 3 mens 4 womens Brazil 2 mens 1 womens 1 mens beach 1 womens beach Japan 1 mens 2 womens Cuba 3 womens China 2 womens Netherlands 1 mens Poland 1 mens Australia 1 womens beach Yugoslavia 1 mens
Japan won the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in a nail-biting penalty shootout with USA.
countries that qualified for the 2008 Beijing Olympics are Japan, America, China, Korea, Australia, Laos (:
1998 Winter Olympics were held in Japan.
Japan Soccer League ended in 1992.
Japan Soccer League was created in 1965.
The name of the Japan Soccer team is Japan because that is the name of the Country.