It is also the second-most successful Asian country at the Summer Games (only behind China), having won 427 Paralympic medals, of which 127 are gold, 140 are silver, and 160 are bronze.

At the Winter Paralympics, Japan is the most successful Asian nation with 97 medals, with 27 gold, 33 silver, and 37 bronze.

[2] Japan won only a single gold medal at the Tokyo Games (in the men's doubles, category C, in table tennis), but rapidly improved, with two golds in 1968, four in 1972, and ten in 1976, with a peak at eighteen in 2004—though that number stayed at just five in 2008 and 2012.

Despite having won 24 medals in Rio, the country returned without any gold medals—10 silver and 14 bronze.

In the Winter Games, the country emerged as a notable competitor when it hosted the Nagano Games in 1998, winning twelve gold medals, compared to none at all in previous editions, except for the 2002 Winter Paralympics, when the Japanese delegation won three bronze medals.