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Japan at the 2014 Asian Para Games

sporting event delegation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ18359018 ↗
Source-derived summary

Japan participated in the 2014 Asian Para Games in Incheon, South Korea from 18 to 24 October 2014. Athletes from Japan achieved a total of 143 medals (including 38 gold), and finished third at the medal table, one spot behind the host nation South Korea, and two spot behind the defending general champions, China.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Japan at the 2014 Asian Para Games” as sporting event delegation. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Japan, Asian and Para can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as sporting event delegation. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q18359018. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2014.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Japan at the 2014 Asian Para Games”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Japan at the 2014 Asian Para Games primary sources, Japan at the 2014 Asian Para Games archive and Japan research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Japan at the 2014 Asian Para Games”?
  2. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Japan at the 2014 Asian Para Games” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.