Major honours
By participation alone this might be the biggest country on this list, though most of that participation throws a different form of darts entirely. Japan maintains a vast culture built around networked soft-tip electronic machines found in bars and dedicated dart cafés, where the board scores automatically, matches are ranked online, and equipment, etiquette and even throwing distance differ from steel-tip. The international breakthrough came in 2019, when Mikuru Suzuki won the BDO Women's World Championship to become the first Asian player to win a world title in darts, defending it the following year. On the men's side, Seigo Asada and Haruki Muramatsu built a pathway to Alexandra Palace through the PDC Asian Tour. The Japan Darts Masters, held in Tokyo, brings the PDC's top players to the country every year. Converting Japan's vast soft-tip player base into professional steel-tip players remains the biggest opportunity this sport has yet to grasp.
Record comparison
Bars are scaled to the strongest team in this list.
Club legends
Rivalry
The real contest is the competition with South Korea, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Singapore for Asian Tour qualifying spots. These countries, which share a soft-tip culture, compete each year for a handful of World Championship qualifying places, and only the players who clear that hurdle reach the Alexandra Palace stage.