Kaho Nakayama

Kaho Nakayama (born 23 October 1998) is a Japanese female handball player player for Romanian handball club CSM Slatina and the Japanese national team.

Career Nakayama started her career for the Japanese club Hokkoku Bank. In 2024 she joined German team BSV Sachsen Zwickau. For the 2026/27 season, she moved to the Romanian first-division club CSM Slatina.

National team With the Japan women's national junior handball team she played at the 2018 Women's Junior World Handball Championship and got a 14th place.

She represented Japan at the 2021 World Women's Handball Championship in Spain, where Japan finished 11th.

At the 2022 Asian Championship, she won silver medals, losing to South Korea in the final.

At the 2023 World Championship she was part of the Japanese team that finished 17th. Nakayama scored 20 goals in 6 matches.

At the 2024 Asian Championship she won gold medals with the Japanese team.

She represented Japan again at the 2025 World Championship.