2023–24 Japan Figure Skating Championships

The 2023–24 Japan Figure Skating Championships were held in Nagano, Nagano on December 20–24, 2023. It was the 92nd edition of the event. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, women's singles, pairs, and ice dance. The results were part of the Japanese selection criteria for the 2024 Four Continents Championships and the 2024 World Championships.

2023–24 Japan Figure Skating Championships
Type:	National championship
Date:	December 20–24, 2023 (S) November 17–19, 2023 (J)
Season:	2023–24
Location:	Nagano, Nagano (S) Ōtsu, Shiga (J)
Host:	Japan Skating Federation
Venue:	Nagano Wakasato Tamokuteki Sports Arena (S) Shiga Prefectural Ice Arena (J)
Champions
Men's singles: Shoma Uno (S) Shunsuke Nakamura (J)
Women's singles: Kaori Sakamoto (S) Mao Shimada (J)
Pairs: Yuna Nagaoka / Sumitada Moriguchi (S) Sae Shimizu / Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda (J)
Ice dance: Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto (S) Sara Kishimoto / Atsuhiko Tamura (J)
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Qualifying

Competitors either qualified at regional and sectional competitions, held from September to November 2023, or earned a bye.^[1]

Date	Event	Type	Location	Results
September 21–24, 2023	Tokyo	Regional	Nishitōkyō, Tokyo	Details
September 22–24, 2023	Chubu		Nagoya, Aichi	Details
Sep. 28 – Oct. 1, 2023	Kinki		Ōtsu, Shiga	Details
Sep. 29 – Oct. 1, 2023	Tohoku-Hokkaido		Niigata, Niigata	Details
October 6–9, 2023	Kanto		Yokohama, Kanagawa	Details
	Chu-Shikoku-Kyushu		Fukuoka, Fukuoka	Details
October 20–22, 2023	Japan Novice Championships	Final	Nishitōkyō, Tokyo	Details
October 25–29, 2023	Western Section	Sectional	Hiroshima, Hiroshima	Details
November 2–5, 2023	Eastern Section		Hachinohe, Aomori	Details
November 17–19, 2023	Japan Junior Championships	Final	Ōtsu, Shiga	Details
December 20–24, 2023	Japan Championships		Nagano, Nagano Prefecture	Details

Medal summary

Senior

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Shoma Uno	Yuma Kagiyama	Sōta Yamamoto
Women	Kaori Sakamoto	Mone Chiba	Mao Shimada
Pairs	Yuna Nagaoka / Sumitada Moriguchi	No other competitors
Ice dance	Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto	Azusa Tanaka / Shingo Nishiyama	Utana Yoshida / Masaya Morita

Junior

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Shunsuke Nakamura	Rio Nakata	Tsudoi Suto
Women	Mao Shimada	Ikura Kushida	Rena Uezono
Pairs	Sae Shimizu / Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda	No other competitors
Ice dance	Sara Kishimoto / Atsuhiko Tamura	Kaho Yamashita / Yuto Nagata	No other competitors

Novice

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men (Novice A)	Hayato Okazaki	Sakutaro Yoshino	Haruki Matsumoto
Men (Novice B)	Haruhisa Hidaka	Aoi Kimura	Riku Sakuma
Women (Novice A)	Sumika Kanazawa	Riria Kono	Saho Otake
Women (Novice B)	Karin Miyazaki	Rinka Yajima	Narumi Mori
Pairs	No competitors
Ice dance	Sumire Yoshida / Ibuki Ogahara	Nanoha Yahata / Yuga Takemasa	Miu Takeuchi / Haruki Tsuchiya

Entries

A list of preliminary entries was published on November 25, 2023.^[2] Names with an asterisk (*) denote junior skaters.

Men	Women	Pairs	Ice dance
Shoma Uno	Yuna Aoki	Yuna Nagaoka / Sumitada Moriguchi	Akari Kinoshita / Takahiko Tamura
Daiya Ebihara*	Nana Araki	Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara	Yuri Kunimura / Kaiji Sakabe
Kosho Oshima	Maaya Ishida		Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto
Sakura Odagaki	Rena Uezono*		Ayano Sasaki / Yoshimitsu Ikeda
Haru Kakiuchi*	Maria Egawa		Azusa Tanaka / Shingo Nishiyama
Yuma Kagiyama	Miyabi Oba		Utana Yoshida / Masaya Morita
Takeru Amine Kataise	Mana Kawabe
Keisuke Kadowaki	Ikura Kushida*
Yuto Kishina	Chikako Saegusa
Ryota Kitamura	Kaori Sakamoto
Kazuki Kushida	Ayumi Shibayama*
Haruya Sasaki	Mao Shimada*
Shun Sato	Sae Shimizu
Minato Shiga	Yuna Shiraiwa
Koshiro Shimada	Natsu Suzuki
Takumi Sugiyama	Rion Sumiyoshi
Tsudoi Suto*	Yo Takagi*
Seigo Tauchi*	Mone Chiba
Sena Takahashi*	Wakaba Higuchi
Tatsuya Tsuboi	Marin Honda
Kazuki Tomono	Rino Matsuike
Rio Nakata*	Mai Mihara
Shunsuke Nakamura*	Saki Miyake
Taiga Nishino*	Haruna Murakami*
Kazuki Hasegawa	Mako Yamashita
Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda	Kinayu Yokoi*
Kao Miura	Hana Yoshida
Sena Miyake	Rinka Watanabe
Sōta Yamamoto
Nozomu Yoshioka

Junior

The top eight finishers at the Japan Junior Championships in men's and women's singles were added to the Japan Championships.^[3]

	Men	Women
1	Shunsuke Nakamura	Mao Shimada
2	Rio Nakata	Ikura Kushida
3	Tsudoi Suto	Rena Uezono
4	Haru Kakiuchi	Yo Takagi
5	Taiga Nishino	Ayumi Shibayama
6	Seigo Tauchi	Haruna Murakami
7	Daiya Ebihara	Kinayu Yokoi
8	Sena Takahashi

Changes to preliminary entries

Date	Discipline	Withdrew	Added	Reason/Other notes	Refs
December 11	Pairs	Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara	N/A	Injury (Kihara)	[4]

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1	Shoma Uno	298.04	1	104.69	2	193.35
2	Yuma Kagiyama	292.10	3	93.94	1	198.16
3	Sōta Yamamoto	287.00	2	94.58	3	192.42
4	Kao Miura	280.08	4	93.91	4	186.17
5	Shun Sato	273.04	5	89.80	6	183.24
6	Kazuki Tomono	271.52	6	86.88	5	184.64
7	Tatsuya Tsuboi	252.34	7	85.85	7	166.49
8	Nozomu Yoshioka	249.38	8	85.27	8	164.11
9	Sena Miyake	226.12	10	77.16	9	148.96
10	Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda	217.62	14	73.58	10	144.04
11	Koshiro Shimada	215.97	11	76.57	12	139.40
12	Takeru Amine Kataise	212.26	18	70.41	11	141.85
13	Haruya Sasaki	208.87	17	70.88	13	137.99
14	Shunsuke Nakamura	207.70	9	80.16	19	127.54
15	Kazuki Kushida	204.27	12	75.54	18	128.73
16	Takumi Sugiyama	202.64	15	71.68	16	130.96
17	Rio Nakata	200.27	16	71.45	17	128.82
18	Haru Kakiuchi	196.30	21	64.58	14	131.72
19	Daiya Ebihara	192.96	24	61.85	15	131.11
20	Sena Takahashi	191.77	19	68.28	22	123.49
21	Seigo Tauchi	190.01	23	63.89	20	126.12
22	Kosho Oshima	189.36	20	66.89	23	122.47
23	Yuto Kishina	188.12	22	64.52	21	123.60
WD	Tsudoi Suto	withdrew	13	74.61	withdrew from competition
Did not advance to free skating
25	Kazuki Hasegawa	59.25	25	59.25	—
26	Keisuke Kadowaki	59.14	26	59.14	—
27	Sakura Odagaki	54.55	27	54.55	—
28	Ryota Kitamura	54.24	28	54.24	—
29	Minato Shiga	51.60	29	51.60	—
30	Taiga Nishino	50.77	30	50.77	—

Women

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1	Kaori Sakamoto	233.12	1	78.78	1	154.34
2	Mone Chiba	209.27	3	68.02	2	141.25
3	Mao Shimada	202.18	7	65.23	3	136.95
4	Rena Uezono	200.69	6	66.22	4	134.47
5	Mai Mihara	199.56	4	67.70	5	131.86
6	Rinka Watanabe	194.88	8	63.66	7	131.22
7	Hana Yoshida	194.22	9	62.73	6	131.49
8	Mako Yamashita	192.15	2	69.92	12	122.23
9	Yuna Aoki	192.01	11	61.44	8	130.57
10	Rion Sumiyoshi	185.22	17	56.70	9	128.52
11	Maria Egawa	184.65	13	58.55	10	126.10
12	Wakaba Higuchi	180.67	15	57.97	11	122.70
13	Mana Kawabe	179.71	5	67.25	18	112.46
14	Kinayu Yokoi	175.80	10	62.49	16	113.31
15	Ayumi Shibayama	175.72	16	57.43	13	118.29
16	Saki Miyake	175.06	14	58.23	14	116.83
17	Rino Matsuike	174.34	12	58.97	15	115.37
18	Sae Shimizu	169.12	18	56.24	17	112.88
19	Haruna Murakami	158.86	23	53.13	19	105.73
20	Natsu Suzuki	155.67	19	56.00	20	99.67
21	Miyabi Oba	150.03	24	50.80	21	99.23
22	Yuna Shiraiwa	148.63	22	53.42	22	95.21
23	Yo Takagi	148.39	20	55.09	23	93.30
24	Maaya Ishida	142.88	21	54.12	24	88.76
Did not advance to free skating
25	Ikura Kushida	50.20	25	50.20	—
26	Chikako Saegusa	50.19	26	50.19	—
27	Nana Araki	46.45	27	46.45	—
28	Marin Honda	44.42	28	44.42	—

Pairs

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1	Yuna Nagaoka / Sumitada Moriguchi	173.64	1	56.07	1	117.57

Ice dance

Rank	Name	Total points	RD		FD
1	Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto	178.39	2	70.89	2	107.50
2	Azusa Tanaka / Shingo Nishiyama	176.43	1	71.08	3	105.35
3	Utana Yoshida / Masaya Morita	173.17	3	64.00	1	109.17
4	Ayano Sasaki / Yoshimitsu Ikeda	129.40	4	51.47	4	77.93
5	Akari Kinoshita / Takahiko Tamura	124.86	5	47.30	5	77.56
6	Yuri Kunimura / Kaiji Sakabe	107.08	6	40.71	6	66.37

Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships

The 2023–24 Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships were held in Ōtsu, Shiga from November 17–19, 2023. The national champions in men's and women's singles earned automatic berths on the 2024 World Junior Championships and 2024 Youth Olympics teams. Top finishers in men's and women's singles were invited to compete at the senior Japan Championships in December.

Entries

A list of preliminary entries was published on November 12, 2023.^[5] Names with an asterisk (*) denote novice skaters.

Men	Women	Pairs	Ice dance
Shuntaro Asaga	Yurika Imazeki	Sae Shimizu / Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda	Sara Kishimoto / Atsuhiko Tamura
Taichi Isowa	Miyu Irie		Kaho Yamashita / Yuto Nagata
Daiya Ebihara	Aiko Iwamoto
Kenta Omura	Rena Uezono
Hayato Okazaki*	Saho Otake*
Ibuki Ogahara	Koko Otsubo
Nobuyoshi Oda	Mayuko Oka
Haru Kakiuchi	Mei Okada
Kairi Kato	Yurina Okuno
Ryusei Kikuchi	Sumika Kanazawa*
Tomoki Kimura	Miyu Kitatani
Shioh Kojima	Kanade Kitami
Kazuna Satou	Ikura Kushida
Tsudoi Suto	Riria Kono*
Seigo Tauchi	Mira Shigeta
Sena Takahashi	Ayumi Shibayama
Rio Nakata	Mao Shimada
Shunsuke Nakamura	Nana Sugiyama
Kazuhiro Nakura	Hono Segawa
Taiga Nishino	Yo Takagi
Hiroto Hanai	Nanako Takahara
Iori Horino	Minoka Chiba
Haruki Matsumoto*	Ami Nakai
Masaya Mishima	Ayumi Nakao
Kei Mukaino	Hikari Matsunami*
Ryoto Mori	Ruka Miyamoto
Ryoga Morimoto	Haruna Murakami
Ryushin Yamada	Kei Yamada
Sakutaro Yoshino*	Kinayu Yokoi
	Kaoruko Wada

Novice

Top finishers at the Japan Novice Championships in men's and women's singles were added to the Japan Junior Championships.^[6]

	Men	Women
1	Hayato Okazaki	Sumika Kanazawa
2	Sakutaro Yoshino	Riria Kono
3	Haruki Matsumoto	Saho Otake
4		Hikari Matsunami

Results

Junior men

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1	Shunsuke Nakamura	212.42	1	76.81	2	135.61
2	Rio Nakata	205.76	5	64.28	1	141.48
3	Tsudoi Suto	201.12	2	70.59	4	130.53
4	Haru Kakiuchi	197.97	3	68.64	5	129.33
5	Taiga Nishino	195.71	8	63.52	3	132.19
6	Seigo Tauchi	195.19	4	66.24	6	128.95
7	Daiya Ebihara	189.39	6	64.24	10	125.15
8	Sena Takahashi	188.98	9	62.93	7	126.05
9	Ryoga Morimoto	188.86	7	63.58	9	125.28
10	Shuntaro Asaga	178.80	22	52.85	8	125.95
11	Ryusei Kikuchi	177.55	13	60.01	11	117.54
12	Ryushin Yamada	175.09	14	59.84	12	115.25
13	Kazuhiro Nakura	173.08	10	61.01	13	112.07
14	Ryoto Mori	172.45	11	60.80	14	111.65
15	Masaya Mishima	171.40	12	60.70	15	110.70
16	Nobuyoshi Oda	167.13	15	58.31	18	108.82
17	Hayato Okazaki	167.09	16	58.28	19	108.81
18	Ibuki Ogahara	166.95	18	57.57	17	109.38
19	Hiroto Hanai	164.14	21	53.97	16	110.17
20	Kairi Kato	162.52	17	58.26	21	104.26
21	Iori Horino	157.29	20	54.10	22	103.19
22	Kenta Omura	157.08	23	52.66	20	104.42
23	Shioh Kojima	143.81	24	52.33	23	91.48
24	Kazuna Satou	142.14	19	56.53	24	85.61
Did not advance to free skating
25	Tomoki Kimura	51.06	25	51.06	—
26	Kei Mukaino	49.42	26	49.42	—
27	Sakutaro Yoshino	48.94	27	48.94	—
28	Haruki Matsumoto	47.94	28	47.94	—
29	Taichi Isowa	46.72	29	46.72	—

Junior women

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1	Mao Shimada	201.33	4	63.34	1	137.99
2	Ikura Kushida	190.12	1	65.30	3	124.82
3	Rena Uezono	186.51	6	60.95	2	125.56
4	Yo Takagi	183.96	3	63.62	4	120.34
5	Ayumi Shibayama	175.61	2	63.68	5	111.93
6	Haruna Murakami	168.48	5	62.30	8	106.18
7	Riria Kono	167.18	11	57.70	6	109.48
8	Kinayu Yokoi	166.08	9	60.00	9	106.08
9	Mayuko Oka	163.71	8	60.04	12	103.67
10	Ami Nakai	160.89	14	55.06	10	105.83
11	Kei Yamada	159.94	12	56.78	13	103.16
12	Sumika Kanazawa	158.77	19	50.21	7	108.56
13	Kaoruko Wada	157.87	7	60.26	15	97.61
14	Mei Okada	152.99	16	51.41	14	101.58
15	Saho Otake	152.64	24	47.09	11	105.55
16	Ayumi Nakao	151.22	13	56.49	17	94.73
17	Yurina Okuno	148.27	10	58.74	21	89.53
18	Hikari Matsunami	145.41	22	48.39	16	97.02
19	Nana Sugiyama	144.91	17	51.37	18	93.54
20	Aiko Iwamoto	143.30	15	51.74	19	91.56
21	Minoka Chiba	138.43	23	47.39	20	91.04
22	Yurika Imazeki	134.13	18	51.17	23	82.96
23	Ruka Miyamoto	132.19	21	48.90	22	83.29
24	Koko Otsubo	130.91	20	49.14	24	81.77
Did not advance to free skating
25	Mira Shigeta	46.81	25	46.81	—
26	Miyu Kitatani	46.81	26	46.81	—
27	Hono Segawa	43.88	27	43.88	—
28	Kanade Kitami	40.84	28	40.84	—
29	Miyu Irie	39.91	29	39.91	—
30	Nanako Takahara	36.63	30	36.63	—

Junior pairs

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1	Sae Shimizu / Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda	109.69	1	40.00	1	69.69

Junior ice dance

Rank	Name	Total points	RD		FD
1	Sara Kishimoto / Atsuhiko Tamura	147.45	1	59.06	1	88.39
2	Kaho Yamashita / Yuto Nagata	131.33	2	50.91	2	80.42

International team selections

Winter Youth Olympics Games

The 2024 Winter Youth Olympics Games will be held in Gangwon, South Korea from 27 January to 1 February, 2024.^[7]

	Men	Women
1	Haru Kakiuchi	Mao Shimada
2	Rio Nakata	Yo Takagi
1st alt.	Taiga Nishino	Ikura Kushida
2nd alt.	Tsudoi Suto	Ayumi Shibayama

Four Continents Championships

The 2024 Four Continents Championships will be held in Shanghai, China from January 30 to February 4, 2024.

	Men	Women	Pairs	Ice dance
1	Yuma Kagiyama	Mone Chiba	Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara	Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto
2	Sōta Yamamoto	Mai Mihara		Azusa Tanaka / Shingo Nishiyama
3	Shun Sato	Rinka Watanabe		Utana Yoshida / Masaya Morita
1st alt.	Kazuki Tomono	Hana Yoshida
2nd alt.	Tatsuya Tsuboi	Yuna Aoki
3rd alt.	Nozomu Yoshioka	Rion Sumiyoshi

World Junior Championships

Commonly referred to as "Junior Worlds", the 2024 World Junior Championships will be held in Taipei City, Chinese Taipei from February 26 – March 3, 2024.

	Men	Women	Pairs	Ice dance
1	Shunsuke Nakamura	Mao Shimada	Sae Shimizu / Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda	Sara Kishimoto / Atsuhiko Tamura
2	Rio Nakata	Rena Uezono
3	Haru Kakiuchi	Ikura Kushida
1st alt.	Daiya Ebihara	Yo Takagi		Kaho Yamashita / Yuto Nagata
2nd alt.	Seigo Tauchi	Ayumi Shibayama

World Championships

The 2024 World Championships will be held in Montreal, Canada from March 18–24, 2024.

	Men	Women	Pairs	Ice dance
1	Shoma Uno	Kaori Sakamoto	Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara	Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto
2	Yuma Kagiyama	Mone Chiba
3	Kao Miura	Hana Yoshida
1st alt.	Sōta Yamamoto	Mai Mihara		Utana Yoshida / Masaya Morita
2nd alt.	Shun Sato	Rinka Watanabe
3rd alt.	Kazuki Tomono	Rion Sumiyoshi

References

1. "National Competition Results Index (English)". Japan Skating Federation. November 2023.
2. "第92回全日本フィギュアスケート選手権大会" [92nd All Japan Figure Skating Championships] (in Japanese). Japan Skating Federation. November 2023.
3. "第92回全日本フィギュアスケート選手権大会推薦選手" [Nominated athletes for the 92nd All Japan Figure Skating Championships] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan Skating Federation. November 2023.
4. "全日本フィギュアスケート選手権大会　欠場のお知らせ（三浦璃来/木原龍一 組）" [All Japan Figure Skating Championships' Note of Absence (Riku Miura/Ryuichi Kihara)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan Skating Federation. December 11, 2023.
5. "JOCジュニアオリンピックカップ大会 　第92回全日本フィギュアスケートジュニア選手権大会" [JOC Junior Olympic Cup Tournament 92nd All Japan Junior Championships] (in Japanese). Japan Skating Federation. November 2023.
6. "JOCジュニアオリンピックカップ大会 第92回全日本フィギュアスケートジュニア選手権大会推薦選手について" [JOC Junior Olympic Cup Tournament - About the nominated athletes for the 92nd All Japan Figure Skating Junior Championships] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan Skating Federation. November 2023.
7. "第4回ユースオリンピック冬季競技大会(2024／韓国 江原道)" [4th Winter Youth Olympic Games (2024/Gangwon, South Korea)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan Skating Federation. 19 November 2023.