Updates to Japan's Home Team at Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games

This week the JAAF announced changes to the lineup for its home team at next week's Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. The main change announced was the withdrawal of Ririka Hironaka from the women's 10000 m, leaving only Nozomi Tanaka to do it as part of a 1500-5000-10000 triple. In theory it seems like it would be pretty easy and swap in an alternate, but apparently not. No announcement of withdrawals for Tomonori Yamaguchi, who missed June's National Championships 5000 m with injury, or high jumper Ryoichi Akamatsu, who hasn't competed since early last October and made the Asian Games team based his 8th-place finish over a year ago at the Tokyo World Championships.

Complete entry lists, schedule and results are available here. The latest Japanese team lineup, with current Asian ranking limited to 2 athletes per country, and best performance in 2025-26:

Men

100 m

6 - Shuhei Tada (Sumitomo Denko) - 10.10 (+1.4)

9 - Yuki Koike (Sumitomo Denko) - 10.06 (+1.4)

200 m

1 - Towa Uzawa (JAL) - 20.11 (+0.9)

3 - Soshi Mizukubo (Miyazaki Sports Assoc.) - 20.07 (+0.5)

400 m

1 - Joseph Nakajima (Fujitsu) - 44.44

5 - Shinya Hayashi (Tsukuba Univ.) - 44.98

800 m

2 - Ko Ochiai (Komazawa Univ.) - 1:43.45

7 - Nanaki Manno (Kansai Univ.) - 1:45.31

1500 m

1 - Kazuto Iizawa (Sumitomo Denko) - 3:35.90

unranked - Nagiya Mori (Honda) - 3:36.53

5000 m

3 - Nagiya Mori (Honda) - 13:14.18

unranked - Tomonori Yamaguchi (SG Holdings) - 13:16.38

10000 m

2 - Mebuki Suzuki (Toyota) - 27:05.92

3 - Yamato Yoshii (Toyota) - 27:21.45

Marathon

20 - Yuya Yoshida (GMO) - 2:06:59

41 - Ichitaka Yamashita (Mitsubishi Juko) - 2:06:18

110 mH

1 - Rachid Muratake (JAL) - 12.92 (+0.6)

2 - Shunsuke Izumiya (Sumitomo Denko) - 13.00 (+1.2)

400 mH

3 - Kazuki Kurokawa (Sumitomo Denko) - 48.35

4 - Taiju Goto (Rakunan H.S.) - 48.09

3000 mSC

1 - Ryuji Miura (Subaru) - 8:03.43

2 - Ryoma Aoki (Honda) - 8:18.63

Half Marathon Race Walk

1 - Toshikazu Yamanishi (Aichi Seiko) - 1:20:34

2 - Kento Yoshikawa (Fujitsu) - 1:20:50

Marathon Race Walk

1 - Hayato Katsuki (SDF Academy) - 2:55:28

3 - Motofumi Suwa (Aichi Seiko) - 2:58:21

High Jump

6 - Hirokazu Sakai (Senko) - 2.25 m

unranked - Ryoichi Akamatsu (Seibu Prince) - 2.29 m

Pole Vault

7 - Masaki Ejima (Fujitsu) - 5.70 m

8 - Tomoya Karasawa (HNJ Mitsubishi) - 5.66 m

Long Jump

5 - Yuki Hashioka (Fujitsu) - 8.22 m (+1.9)

unranked - Riku Ito (Suzuki) - 8.11 m (+0.1)

Triple Jump

7 - Manato Miyao (Toyo Univ.) - 16.64 m (-1.7)

Discus Throw

2 - Masateru Yugami (Toyota) - 65.38 m

5 - Yuji Tsutsumi (Alsok) - 61.76 m

Hammer Throw

2 - Tatsuto Nakagawa (Sanyo Tokushu Seiko) - 73.93 m

3 - Shota Fukuda (Sumitomo Denko) - 74.57 m

Javelin Throw

5 - Yuta Sakiyama (Yamada Holdings) - 87.16 m

9 - Rin Suzuki (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) - 81.23 m

Decathlon

1 - Yuma Maruyama (Sumitomo Denko) - 8321

5 - Keisuke Okuda (With Us) - 7602

4x100 m Relay

Yoshihide Kiryu (Nihon Seimei) - 9.99 (+1.5)

Fukuto Komuro (Chuo Univ.) - 10.07 (+0.9)

4x400 m Relay

Fuga Sato (Mizuno) - 45.10

Kentaro Shirahata (Toyo Univ.) - 45.30

19 - Kenki Imaizumi (Uchida Yoko AC) - 45.29

Women

100 m

5 - Midori Mikase (Sumitomo Denko) - 11.33 (+0.6)

8 - Abigail Fuka Ido (Toho Ginko) - 11.35 (+0.5)

200 m

3 - Abigail Fuka Ido (Toho Ginko) - 22.79 (+1.0)

8 - Aiko Iki (Osaka Gas) - 23.41 (+1.6)

400 m

3 - Nanako Matsumoto (Toho Ginko) - 52.14

800 m

3 - Rin Kubo (Sekisui Kagaku) - 1:59.52

6 - Ayano Shiomi (Iwatani Sangyo) - 2:01.01

1500 m

2 - Nozomi Tanaka (Toyota Jidoshokki) - 4:03.00

5 - Mizuki Michishita (Sekisui Kagaku) - 4:10.48

5000 m

1 - Nozomi Tanaka (Toyota Jidoshokki) - 14:34.10

4 - Yuma Yamamoto (Sekisui Kagaku) - 14:59.89

10000 m

3 - Nozomi Tanaka (Toyota Jidoshokki) - 30:54.40

Marathon

3 - Sayaka Sato (Sekisui Kagaku) - 2:20:59

unranked - Mikuni Yada (Edion) - 2:19:57

100 mH

1 - Hitomi Nakajima (Hasegawa) - 12.60 (+0.7)

2 - Mako Fukube (NKK) - 12.72 (-0.2)

400 mH

7 - Honoka Aoki (Zenrin) - 55.92

9 - Satsuki Umehara (Sumitomo Denko) - 56.21

3000 mSC

4 - Miu Saito (Panasonic) - 9:24.72

7 - Manami Nishiyama (Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) - 9:40.85

Half Marathon Race Walk

3 - Ayane Yanai (Fujitsu) - 1:35:57

7 - Ayumi Sugibayashi (unattached) - 1:39:43

Marathon Race Walk

2 - Yukiko Umeno (Locok) - 3:33:47

4 - Maika Yagi (Chiba Kogyo Ginko) - 3:36:06

High Jump

7 - Nagisa Takahashi (Senko) - 1.92 m

9 - Yuzuki Ishioka (Nihon Joshi Taiiku Univ. AC) - 1.86 m

Pole Vault

2 - Misaki Morota (At Home) - 4.51 m

5 - Akari Osakaya (Ehime Sports Assoc.) - 4.25 m

Long Jump

5 - Sumire Hata (Sumitomo Denko) - 6.47 m (-0.7)

7 - Ayaka Kora (JAL) - 6.48 m (+0.8)

Triple Jump

6 - Akari Funada (Niconiconori) - 13.87 m (+0.4)

Discus Throw

5 - Nanaka Kori (Niconiconori) - 59.23 m

Hammer Throw

3 - Raika Murakami (Zenrin) - 68.83 m

5 - Joy McArthur (USC) - 67.76 m

Javelin Throw

2 - Haruka Kitaguchi (JAL) - 68.92 m

4 - Sae Takemoto (Orico) - 61.74 m

Heptathlon

1 - Yuri Tanaka (Suzuki) - 6050

6 - Nanaka Kajiki (Nojima) - 5693

4x100 m Relay

Manaka Miura (Ehime Sports Assoc.) - 11.42 (+0.5)

Masumi Aoki (77 Ginko) - 11.42 (+1.5)

4x400 m Relay

Shizuho Moriyama (Ichigo) - 53.36

Aoi Teramoto (At Home) - 53.14

Yuzuki Nakao (Sonoda Gakuen Univ.) - 53.20

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