Japan participated in the 1970 Asian Games held in Bangkok, Thailand from August 24, 1970 to September 4, 1970. This country was ranked 1st with 74 gold, 47 silver and 23 bronze medals, making a total of 144 medals in all.^[1]

Medal Name Sport Event  Gold Masahide Jinno Athletics Men's 100 m  Gold Yoshiharu Tomonaga Athletics Men's 400 m  Gold Susumu Noro Athletics Men's 1500 m  Gold Chikashi Watanabe Athletics Men's 110 m hurdles  Gold Yukitaka Shigeta Athletics Men's 400 m hurdles  Gold Nobuyoshi Miura Athletics Men's 3000 m steeplechase  Gold Horishi Waku Kiyoshi Shimada Hiromitsu Inomata Yoshiharu Tomonaga Athletics Men's 4 × 400 m relay  Gold Kenji Kimihara Athletics Men's marathon  Gold Kyoichiro Inoue Athletics Men's pole vault  Gold Shinji Ogura Athletics Men's long jump  Gold Shigenobu Murofushi Athletics Men's hammer throw  Gold Hisao Yamamoto Athletics Men's javelin throw  Gold Junichi Onizuka Athletics Men's decathlon  Gold Keiko Yamada Athletics Women's 200 m  Gold Emiko Konishi Keiko Tsuchida Ritsuko Sato Keiko Yamada Athletics Women's 4 × 100 m relay  Gold Michiyo Inaoka Athletics Women's high jump  Gold Hiroko Yamashita Athletics Women's long jump  Gold Teruko Yagishita Athletics Women's discus throw  Gold Nobuko Morita Athletics Women's javelin throw  Gold Hiroe Yuki Badminton Women's singles  Gold Etsuko Takenaka Machiko Aizawa Badminton Women's doubles  Gold Etsuko Takenaka Mariko Nishio Machiko Aizawa Hiroe Yuki Badminton Women's team  Gold Masato Abe Toru Miyaichi Takao Ono Terue Yoshida Cycling Men's team time trial  Gold Takafumi Matsuda Cycling Men's 1 km time trial  Gold Kenichi Ono Cycling Men's individual pursuit  Gold Tsutomu Irimagawa Seiichi Iwasaki Takafumi Matsuda Shinpei Okajima Cycling Men's team 1600 m time trial  Gold Tsutomu Irimagawa Seiichi Iwasaki Takafumi Matsuda Shinpei Okajima Cycling Men's team pursuit  Gold Takashi Kioka Diving Men's 3 m springboard  Gold Kanoko Mabuchi Diving Women's 3 m springboard  Gold Yoko Arimitsu Diving Women's 10 m platform  Gold Kazuoki Matsuyama Sailing Men's OK  Gold Takao Otani Sailing Men's super moth  Gold Akira Yamamura Takashi Yamamura Sailing Men's flying dutchman  Gold Kanji Kubo Makoto Shiraishi Shinji Takahashi Yoshihisa Yoshikawa Shooting Men's 25 m center fire pistol team  Gold Kanji Kubo Shooting Men's 25 m rapid fire pistol  Gold Takeo Kamachi Kanji Kubo Makoto Shiraishi Tadamasa Yamamoto Shooting Men's 25 m rapid fire pistol team  Gold Isamu Hikari Shooting Men's 50 m pistol  Gold Isamu Hikari Takeo Kamachi Shinji Takahashi Yoshihisa Yoshikawa Shooting Men's 50 m pistol team  Gold Minoru Ito Shooting Men's 10 m air rifle  Gold Minoru Ito Hiroya Okuda Kazuya Ono Kenjiro Tsuba Shooting Men's 10 m air rifle team  Gold Takeo Toriyama Shooting Men's 50 m rifle prone  Gold Shojiro Sawa Swimming Men's 100 m freestyle  Gold Kunihiro Iwasaki Swimming Men's 200 m freestyle  Gold Tadashi Honda Swimming Men's 100 m backstroke  Gold Tadashi Honda Swimming Men's 200 m backstroke  Gold Nobutaka Taguchi Swimming Men's 100 m breaststroke  Gold Nobutaka Taguchi Swimming Men's 200 m breaststroke  Gold Yasuhiro Komazaki Swimming Men's 100 m butterfly  Gold Yasuhiro Komazaki Swimming Men's 200 m butterfly  Gold Toru Udo Swimming Men's 400 m individual medley  Gold Shojiro Sawa Kunihiro Iwasaki Noboru Waseda Satoshi Maruya Swimming Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay  Gold Akira Iida Kunihiro Iwasaki Noboru Waseda Toshinori Murata Swimming Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay  Gold Tadashi Honda Nobutaka Taguchi Satoshi Maruya Shojiro Sawa Swimming Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay  Gold Yoshimi Nishigawa Swimming Women's 100 m freestyle  Gold Yoshimi Nishigawa Swimming Women's 200 m freestyle  Gold Tae Iguchi Swimming Women's 400 m freestyle  Gold Yukiko Goshi Swimming Women's 100 m backstroke  Gold Hitomi Tanigami Swimming Women's 100 m breaststroke  Gold Chieno Shibata Swimming Women's 200 m breaststroke  Gold Mayumi Aoki Swimming Women's 100 m butterfly  Gold Yoshimi Nishigawa Swimming Women's 200 m individual medley  Gold Shigeko Kawanishi Yukiko Goshi Yukari Takemoto Yoshimi Nishigawa Swimming Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay  Gold Shigeko Kawanishi Yukiko Goshi Mayumi Aoki Chieno Shibata Swimming Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay  Gold Yoshihide Fukao Kenji Kimura Isao Koizumi Yasuaki Mitsumori Jungo Morita Yuzo Nakamura Katsutoshi Nekoda Keiichi Numakura Seiji Oko Tetsuo Sato Kenji Shimaoka Tadayoshi Yokota Volleyball Men's tournament  Gold Toshimi Furuta Keiko Hama Takako Iida Toyoko Iwahara Hiroko Jinnouchi Kajiko Kitajima Machiko Kunitimo Fumie Matsushita Hisako Nagano Aiko Onozawa Takako Shirai Eiko Sugawara Volleyball Women's tournament  Gold Hiroshi Hashimoto Tatsuo Jihira Shigeharu Kuwabara Hirokatsu Kuwayama Kaoru Matsunaga Naoto Minegishi Koji Nakano Hideo Nishida Yukiharu Oshita Toshio Takahashi Yoshihiro Yasumi Water polo Men's tournament  Gold Takeshi Horikoshi Weightlifting Men's flyweight  Gold Yoshiyuki Miyake Weightlifting Men's featherweight  Gold Nobuyuki Hatta Weightlifting Men's middleweight  Gold Masashi Ouchi Weightlifting Men's light heavyweight  Gold Hideaki Yanagida Wrestling Men's 57 kg  Gold Kikuo Wada Wrestling Men's 68 kg  Gold Toshitada Yoshida Wrestling Men's 74 kg  Gold Tatsuo Sasaki Wrestling Men's 82 kg  Silver Masahide Jinno Athletics Men's 200 m  Silver Kenichi Otsuki Athletics Men's 10,000 m  Silver Susumu Noro Athletics Men's 3000 m steeplechase  Silver Chiaki Miyakawa Masahide Jinno Kiyoshi Shimada Hiromitsu Inomata Athletics Men's 4 × 100 m relay  Silver Yoshiro Mifune Athletics Men's marathon  Silver Hidehiko Tomizawa Athletics Men's high jump  Silver Masanori Araya Athletics Men's pole vault  Silver Hiroomi Yamada Athletics Men's long jump  Silver Yoshihisa Ishida Athletics Men's hammer throw  Silver Nobuko Kawano Athletics Women's 800 m  Silver Miyako Inoue Athletics Women's 1500 m  Silver Ayako Natsume Athletics Women's 100 m hurdles  Silver Keiko Yamada Athletics Women's 100 m  Silver Kumie Suzuki Athletics Women's high jump  Silver Satoe Matsuzaki Athletics Women's shot put  Silver Yoko Saito Athletics Women's discus throw  Silver Sakiko Hara Athletics Women's javelin throw  Silver Junji Honma Shoichi Toganoo Badminton Men's doubles  Silver Miyoji Tateyama Boxing Men's 51 kg  Silver Tomiharu Tonosaki Boxing Men's 60 kg  Silver Masato Abe Cycling Men's road race  Silver Toshio Otsubo Diving Men's 10 m platform  Silver Yoko Arimitsu Diving Women's 3 m springboard  Silver Makoto Shiraishi Shooting Men's 25 m center fire pistol  Silver Kunihiro Iwasaki Swimming Men's 100 m freestyle  Silver Noboru Waseda Swimming Men's 200 m freestyle  Silver Akira Iida Swimming Men's 400 m freestyle  Silver Akira Iida Swimming Men's 1500 m freestyle  Silver Koji Hoshino Swimming Men's 100 m backstroke  Silver Koji Hoshino Swimming Men's 200 m backstroke  Silver Satoshi Maruya Swimming Men's 100 m butterfly  Silver Satoshi Maruya Swimming Men's 200 m butterfly  Silver Junhachiro Tsutsumi Swimming Men's 400 m individual medley  Silver Shigeko Kawanishi Swimming Women's 100 m freestyle  Silver Shigeko Kawanishi Swimming Women's 200 m freestyle  Silver Kikuyo Ishii Swimming Women's 100 m backstroke  Silver Chieno Shibata Swimming Women's 100 m breaststroke  Silver Hitomi Tanigami Swimming Women's 200 m breaststroke  Silver Kazuyo Banno Swimming Women's 100 m butterfly  Silver Yukari Takemoto Swimming Women's 200 m individual medley  Silver Kenkichi Ando Weightlifting Men's bantamweight  Silver Hideki Fujimoto Weightlifting Men's middle heavyweight  Silver Yoshiyuki Matsuhashi Wrestling Men's 48 kg  Silver Kiyomi Kato Wrestling Men's 52 kg  Silver Kiyoshi Abe Wrestling Men's 62 kg  Silver Shizuo Yada Wrestling Men's 100 kg  Silver Yorihide Isogai Wrestling Men's +100 kg  Bronze Yoshitake Tsuchiya Athletics Men's 800 m  Bronze Masazumi Aoki Athletics Men's shot put  Bronze Toji Hayashi Athletics Men's discus throw  Bronze Nobuko Kawano Athletics Women's 400 m  Bronze Keiko Tsuchida Athletics Women's long jump  Bronze Yoko Saito Athletics Women's shot put  Bronze Ippei Kojima Badminton Men's singles  Bronze Junji Honma Ippei Kojima Hiroshi Taniguchi Shoichi Toganoo Badminton Men's team  Bronze Ippei Kojima Etsuko Takenaka Badminton Mixed doubles  Bronze Shigeaki Abe Yoshikuni Awano Seiji Igarashi Isao Kimura Akira Kodama Satoshi Mori Fumihiko Moroyama Kazufumi Sakai Kenji Soda Atsushi Somatomo Masatomo Taniguchi Kunihiko Yokoyama Basketball Men's tournament  Bronze Yoshimitsu Aragaki Boxing Men's 48 kg  Bronze Yasutsune Uehara Boxing Men's 63.5 kg  Bronze Yoshitsugu Kawabe Boxing Men's 67 kg  Bronze Masato Abe Toru Miyaichi Takao Ono Terue Yoshida Cycling Men's team road race  Bronze Toshiaki Hayashi Diving Men's 10 m platform  Bronze Saburo Amemiya Susumu Chiba Masaji Fuji Shunji Furuta Toshiaki Ichinose Kazuo Kawamura Kyoichi Nagaya Hideji Okabe Satokazu Otsuka Haruo Satake Norio Takahashi Michinori Ueda Akihito Wada Field hockey Men's tournament  Bronze Minoru Ito Hiroya Okuda Kazuya Ono Takeo Toriyama Shooting Men's 50 m rifle prone team  Bronze Minoru Ito Hiroya Okuda Kazuya Ono Kenjiro Tsuba Shooting Men's 50 m rifle three positions team  Bronze Kazuya Ono Shooting Men's 50 m rifle three positions  Bronze Toshinori Murata Swimming Men's 400 m freestyle  Bronze Toshinori Murata Swimming Men's 1500 m freestyle  Bronze Eiko Goshi Swimming Women's 400 m freestyle  Bronze Koichi Tani Wrestling Men's 90 kg

Medals by sport Sport Total Swimming 22 16 3 41 Athletics 19 17 6 42 Shooting 8 1 3 12 Cycling 5 1 1 7 Wrestling 4 5 1 10 Weightlifting 4 2 0 6 Diving 3 2 1 6 Badminton 3 1 3 7 Sailing 3 0 0 3 Volleyball 2 0 0 2 Water polo 1 0 0 1 Boxing 0 2 3 5 Basketball 0 0 1 1 Field hockey 0 0 1 1 Total 74 47 23 144