Japan: 7 facts on the Sochi 2014 Paralympics

• In 10 Winter Games the country has won 74 medals made up of 17 gold, 27 silver and 30 bronze

• More than half of Japan’s 74 medals were won on home snow and ice. In Nagano in 1998 they won 41 medals

• Japan is the only National Paralympic Committee to have won the same number of medals in both genders at the Paralympic Winter Games; 37 in women's events and 37 in men's events

• Japanese women have won nine gold medals, one more than the Japanese men. The total medal count is: women – nine gold, 12 silver and 16 bronze; men – eight gold, 15 silver and 14 bronze.

• Kuniko Obinata has competed in five Paralympic Winter Games (1994-2010) and has won 10 medals in alpine skiing events, including two gold medals, making her Japan’s most successful winter Paralympian

• Ice sledge hockey and wheelchair curling are the only two sports where Japan has yet to win a gold medal at the Winter Paralympics.

Athletes:

Alpine skiing

Toshihiro ABE

Akira KANO

Gakuta KOIKE

Hiraku MISAWA

Taiki MORII

Momoka MURAOKA

Kenji NATSUME

Takeshi SUZUKI

Yoshiko TANAKA

Akira TANIGUCHI

Masahiko TOKAI

Fukutaro YAMAZAKI

Nordic skiing

Yurika ABE

Momoko DEKIJIMA

Mayuko ENO

Kozo KUBO

Yoshihiro NITTA, Twitter: @yoshihiro_nitta

Shoko OTA

Keiichi SATO