Japan wrapped up the 17th Asian Games on Saturday, falling well shy of its target of second place in the first international multi-sports tournament since winning the bid to host the 2020 Tokyo Olympics a year ago.

"We weren't able to achieve our goal (of second place) but the results weren't all together bad, either," Japan team manager Yuji Takada told a news conference the same day summing up the 16-day competition.

Japan, which finished behind powerhouse China and rival South Korea, came one shy of the 48 gold medals it won at the games in Guangzhou, China, four years earlier.