National Team roster

 2005

 Japan at Asian Championships 2005: 5th Place

 2003 

 Japan at Asian Championships 2003: 6th Place

 2001 

Final Standings

1. China 2. Lebanon 3. S.Korea 4. Syria 5. Qatar 6. Japan 7. Taiwan 8. India 9. Uzbekistan 10. UAE 11. Hong Kong 12. Kuwait 13. Thailand 14. Singapore

  Asian Championships 2001 
Day 8, July 28, 2001: 5th-6th Place: Qatar - Japan 74-65 (Daoud 14+5reb+5ast, Ismail ably 21+15reb, Hashim Basher 14+13reb -)
Qatar caught Japan in a stupor early in the fourth quarter and went on to score a 74-65 win that gave it fifth place.
Day 6, July 25, 2001: Japan – Lebanon 73-83 (Goto Masaki  24 - Vogel 15+13reb, Fadi Khatib 24)
Lebanon won the three-point shootout with the Japanese and advanced to the semi with an 83-73 win. Lebanon made 11 of 22 three-point attempts while Japan made 12 of 31.
Day 5, July 24, 2001: China - Japan 126-67 (Wang 22+8reb, Yao Ming 13+8reb, Gong Xiao-bin 17, Hu Wei-dong 16, Menk Bateer 12 -)
The Chinese hardly missed the services of Cheng Zhang, who was slapped a two-game suspension for his involvement in the Lebanon-China melee. Dallas Maverick Wang Zhi-zhi had 22 points and 8 rebounds to lead China breeze by Japan, 126-67, with an astonishing 77 % from the field. Wang made all of his four three-point attempts.
Day 4, July 23, 2001: Japan – Taiwan 69-60 (Goto Masaki 19+10reb -)
Ho Sho-jen (SF, 195cm), one of the four high schoolers on Taiwan NT, flew back to Taiwan after the preliminary round to be with his ill father. Ho's father is said to be in critical condition. Upon knowing the serious illness of Ho's father, Taiwan NT coaching staff decided to let Ho drop out of the championship and head back to Taipei as soon as possible. Ho, the youngest of four children in the family, will not be back in the ABC Championship. He was accompanied by Cheng Chih-lung, who was going back to Taiwan to start his campaign for the legislator election after finishing China's Division II season.
Day 3, July 22, 2001: Syria – Japan 75-65 (- Masaki Goto 20)
The only upset of the day.
Day 1, July 20, 2001: Japan – Kuwait 86-78 (Ono 16, Orihara 13, Goto 12, Kita 10, Setsumasa 9, Ishisaka 9, Ito 6, Furuta 6, Okita 2, Shoji 2, Aono 1 - Baroun 20, Mubarak 20, Alsarraf 14, Almutairi 8, Abdulrahman 6, Hasan 4, Salem 4, Alshemari 2, Hussain 0, Alothm)
Japan, suffering from the absence of four star players, managed to beat Kuwait by only 9 points, 86-78.

Final Standings 1. Australia 2. China 3. Taiwan 4. Japan 5. Korea 6. Kazakstan 7. Mongolia

East Asia Games 2001
Semi-finals, May 27, 2001: China - Japan 86-69 (Lee Nan 23+8reb, Chang Wen-chi 16, Yao Ming 13+7reb+8bl, Wang Zhi-zhi did not play because of ankle injury - Takuma Watanabe 12)
Day 7, May 25, 2001: Korea - Japan 88-87 ( Kim Dong-woo 19p, Song Young-jun 18p ; Japan - Kazuhiro Shoji 16p, Satoru Furuta 10p+10rb)
Day 6, May 24, 2001: China - Japan 96-81 (China - Yao Ming 18p+13rb, Hu Sher-feng 17p+7a+4s ; Japan - Kazuhiro Shoji 12p, Yuki Orihara 12p)
Day 5, May 23, 2001: Japan - Taiwan 83-78 (Japan - Takuya Kita 21p, Yuki Orihara 19p, Satoru Furuta 17p+18rb ; Taiwan - Chen Hsin-an 25p+7rb+5a, Chen Chih-chung 10p+6a)
Day 3 - May 21, 2001: Australia - Japan 92-86 (Paul Rogers 29p+10rb, Benjamin Melmeth 11p+13rb, Brett Maher 19p+5a - Takuya Kita 18p, Yukia Orihara 16p, Kazuhiro Shoji 15p)
Day 2 – May 20 – Sunday: Kazakhstan – Japan 76-100 (Andrei Shpekht 19p ; Vitaliy Strebkov 21 - Kazuhiro Shoji 20p ; Satoru Furuta 17+9rb)
Day 1 – May 19 - Saturday: Japan – Mongolia 129-68 (Takuya Kita 27 -)

 2000 

Super Dream Games at Tokyo (JPN):
6/9/00: USA – Japan 105-49 (Carter 18, Baker 17, Abdur-Rahim 14, Allen 12, Smith 11, Payton 11, Houston 8, Mourning 7, Kidd 4, Hardaway 4 – Kita 13, Shoji 4, Furuta 4, Sako 4, Aono 2; Hasegawa 7, Ishizaka 4, Weiss 3, Naya 3, Miyanokoshi 3, Orimo 2)
4/9/00: Japan – Spain 58-99 (Aono 1, Sako 16, Orimo 5, Shoji 14, Furuta 2; Naya 2, Miyanokoshi 3, Kita 9, Weiss 3, Hasegawa, Sakumoto, Ishizaka 3 - Rodríguez 7, Jiménez 7, Herreros 12, De Miguel 6, Reyes 11; Garbajosa 7, R.Lopez 5, De la Fuente 3, Navarro 13, Rogers, Angulo 14, Dueñas 14)

1998

  World Championships 1998 in Athens (GRE) 
Day 6, Aug.3, 1998: 13^th place game: Japan – Nigeria 60-70 ( Orimo 16, Takahashi 15 - Okwudire 19)

Day 5, Aug.2, 1998: Group 13-16: Senegal – Japan 55-60 ( Ndiaye 14 - Sako 12)
Day 3, July 31, 1998: Japan – Yugoslavia 54-99 ( Yamasaki 7, Yuki 3, Sako 3, Hasegawa 7, Orimo 6, Setsumasa, Minamiyama 11, Takahasi 15, Furuta, Sakumoto 1, Tominaga 1 - Bodiroga 6, Scepanovic 9, Obradovic 18, Lukovski 18, Beric 7, Djordjevic 14, Rebraca 5, Drobnjak 11, Bulatovic 1, Tomasevic 6, Topic 5)
Day 2, July 30, 1998: Puerto Rico – Japan 78-57 ( Ortiz 23, Casiano 9, Travieso 2, Santiago E., Mincy 13, Carter 5, Colon 3, Vega 10, Hourrutunier 4, Santiago D. 6, Soto 4 - Yakasaki 4, Yuki 1, Sako 3, Hasegawa 5, Orimo 8, Satsumasa, Minamiyama 3, Takahasi 20, Furuta 4, Sakumoto 7, Tominaga 2)
Day 1, July 29, 1998: Japan - Russia 58-83 ( Yamasagi 12, Yuki 2, Sako 3, Hasegawa 3, Orimo 4, Setsumasa 2, Minamiyama 5, Takahasi 23, Furuta 2, Sakuwoto 2 - Karassev 13, Koudelin 11, Pashutine 13, Kissourine, Domani 5, Tikhonenko 3, Babkov 13, Mikhailov 10, Morgunov 5, Kourhasov, Panov 8, Nosov 2)