Ami Kondo won Japan's first medal of the 2016 Rio Olympics when she beat Mongolia's Urantsetseg Munkhbat to claim bronze in the women's 48-kg judo competition on Saturday.
And Naohisa Takato soon followed with a bronze of his own, recovering from defeat in the quarterfinals of the men's 60 kg to battle through the repechage and beat Azerbaijan's Orkhan Safarov for the medal.
Kondo, the 2014 world champion, was making her Olympic debut but was far from satisfied with her prize after losing to eventual gold medalist Paula Pareto of Argentina in the semifinals.