| Continental union | Asian Gymnastics Union |
|---|---|
| National federation | Japan Gymnastics Association |
| Olympic Games | |
| Appearances | 13 |
| Medals |  Bronze: 1964 |
| World Championships | |
| Medals |  Bronze: 1962, 1966 |
| Junior World Championships | |
| Medals |  Gold: 2023 |
The Japan women's national artistic gymnastics team represents Japan in FIG international competitions.
Japan has participated in the Olympic Games women's team competition 13 times and has won one team medal, a bronze in 1964. [1] Mai Murakami won Japan's first individual Olympic medal in women's artistic gymnastics: a bronze on floor exercise at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. [2] The team has also won two medals at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
This list includes all Japanese female artistic gymnasts who have won a medal at the Olympic Games or the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
| Rank | Gymnast | Team | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX | Olympic Total | World Total | Total |
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| 1 | Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda |  1964 1962 1966 | 1966 |  1966 | 1954 1958 1962 | 1958 | 1 | 8 | 9 | |
| 2 | Mai Murakami | 2018 | 2021 | 2020 2017 2021 2018 | 1 | 5 | 6 | |||
| 3 | Taniko Nakamura-Mitsukuri | 1964 1962 1966 | 1966 | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| 4 | Kōko Tsurumi | 2009 | 2009 | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| 5 | Ginko Abukawa-Chiba, Kiyoko Ono, Toshiko Shirasu-Aihara, Hiroko Tsuji | 1964 1962 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| 9 | Urara Ashikawa | 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Hazuki Watanabe | 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 11 | Taki Shibuya, Hiroko Ikenada, Yasuko Furuyama, Mitsuko Kandori | 1966 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Miyata Shoko | 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Mai Murakami is a Japanese retired artistic gymnast and Olympic medalist. She is the 2017 and 2021 World champion on floor exercise, the 2018 World all-around silver medalist and floor exercise bronze medalist, the 2021 World balance beam bronze medalist, and a four-time Japanese national all-around champion. She represented Japan at the 2016 and 2020 Olympics, winning a bronze medal on floor exercise in the latter. This made her the first female Japanese gymnast to win an individual medal at the Olympics.
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