The Japan national under-18 baseball team is the national under-18 team representing Japan in international baseball competitions. The organization is currently ranked 1st in the world by the World Baseball Softball Confederation.[2] They compete in the bi-annual U-18 Baseball World Cup. They have finished 2nd in the tournament four times.[3]
Competitive record
| U-18 Baseball World Cup record
|
| Year
|
Round
|
Position
|
|
|
|
|
| 1982
|
Final
|
2nd
|
|
|
|
|
| 1999
|
|
5th
|
|
|
|
|
| 2004
|
Final
|
2nd
|
|
|
|
|
| 2012
|
Round 2
|
6th
|
5
|
4
|
38
|
25
|
| 2013
|
Final
|
2nd
|
7
|
2
|
70
|
19
|
| 2015
|
Final
|
2nd
|
8
|
1
|
81
|
5
|
| 2017
|
Super Round
|
3rd
|
6
|
3
|
52
|
24
|
| 2019
|
Super Round
|
5th
|
5
|
3
|
55
|
23
|
| 2021
|
Super Round
|
3rd
|
6
|
3
|
43
|
38
|
| 2023
|
Final
|
1st
|
7
|
2
|
|
|
| 2025
|
Final
|
2nd
|
8
|
1
|
|
|
| Total
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
See also
References