# 2018–19 Japan Figure Skating Championships

The 2018–19 Japan Figure Skating Championships were held on December 20–24, 2018 in Osaka. It was the 87th edition of the event. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Shoma Uno | 289.10 | 1 | 102.06 | 1 | 187.04 |
| 2 | Daisuke Takahashi | 239.62 | 2 | 88.52 | 4 | 151.10 |
| 3 | Keiji Tanaka | 236.45 | 4 | 79.32 | 2 | 157.13 |
| 4 | Kazuki Tomono | 227.46 | 7 | 73.09 | 3 | 154.37 |
| 5 | Koshiro Shimada | 219.78 | 3 | 80.46 | 11 | 139.32 |
| 6 | Yuma Kagiyama | 216.36 | 6 | 74.51 | 6 | 141.85 |
| 7 | Tatsuya Tsuboi | 214.87 | 11 | 69.95 | 5 | 144.92 |
| 8 | Yuto Kishina | 214.35 | 8 | 72.96 | 7 | 141.39 |
| 9 | Sōta Yamamoto | 212.69 | 10 | 71.95 | 8 | 140.74 |
| 10 | Taichiro Yamakuma | 212.23 | 9 | 72.73 | 10 | 139.50 |
| 11 | Shu Nakamura | 211.69 | 5 | 77.11 | 13 | 134.58 |
| 12 | Shun Sato | 204.95 | 16 | 64.89 | 9 | 140.06 |
| 13 | Hiroaki Sato | 199.34 | 18 | 62.30 | 12 | 137.04 |
| 14 | Ryuju Hino | 198.98 | 12 | 69.63 | 14 | 129.35 |
| 15 | Jun Suzuki | 198.27 | 13 | 69.18 | 15 | 129.09 |
| 16 | Kazuki Kushida | 185.16 | 14 | 65.31 | 17 | 119.85 |
| 17 | Sena Miyake | 185.15 | 17 | 64.16 | 16 | 120.99 |
| 18 | Keiichiro Sasahara | 177.92 | 20 | 60.94 | 18 | 116.98 |
| 19 | Kento Kobayashi | 173.53 | 22 | 59.76 | 19 | 113.77 |
| 20 | Koshin Yamada | 171.05 | 21 | 60.13 | 20 | 110.92 |
| 21 | Junya Watanabe | 170.88 | 15 | 64.93 | 22 | 105.95 |
| 22 | Yoji Nakano | 164.54 | 19 | 61.77 | 23 | 102.77 |
| 23 | Tsunehito Karakawa | 163.02 | 23 | 56.05 | 21 | 106.97 |
| 24 | Kousuke Nakano | 150.32 | 24 | 55.84 | 24 | 94.48 |
| Did not advance to free skating |||||||
| 25 | Taichi Honda | | 25 | 55.56 | — | — |
| 26 | Ryoma Kobayashi | | 26 | 55.09 | — | — |
| 27 | Junsuke Tokikuni | | 27 | 53.41 | — | — |
| 28 | Reo Ishizuka | | 28 | 52.83 | — | — |
| 29 | Hidetsugu Kamata | | 29 | 51.10 | — | — |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Kaori Sakamoto | 228.01 | 2 | 75.65 | 2 | 152.36 |
| 2 | Rika Kihira | 223.76 | 5 | 68.75 | 1 | 155.01 |
| 3 | Satoko Miyahara | 223.34 | 1 | 76.76 | 4 | 146.58 |
| 4 | Mai Mihara | 220.80 | 3 | 72.88 | 3 | 147.92 |
| 5 | Wakaba Higuchi | 197.63 | 4 | 72.63 | 7 | 125.00 |
| 6 | Mako Yamashita | 197.14 | 9 | 62.94 | 5 | 134.20 |
| 7 | Yuhana Yokoi | 196.37 | 6 | 66.27 | 6 | 130.10 |
| 8 | Ayaka Hosoda | 185.74 | 10 | 61.41 | 8 | 124.33 |
| 9 | Yuna Shiraiwa | 183.16 | 12 | 59.99 | 9 | 123.17 |
| 10 | Tomoe Kawabata | 183.11 | 7 | 64.66 | 10 | 118.45 |
| 11 | Akari Matsubara | 175.69 | 13 | 59.27 | 11 | 116.42 |
| 12 | Wakana Nagawana | 175.40 | 11 | 60.14 | 12 | 115.26 |
| 13 | Nana Araki | 170.07 | 16 | 56.32 | 13 | 113.75 |
| 14 | Yuna Aoki | 169.28 | 8 | 63.72 | 17 | 105.56 |
| 15 | Marin Honda | 164.23 | 18 | 52.75 | 15 | 111.48 |
| 16 | Hina Takeno | 163.39 | 14 | 58.14 | 18 | 105.25 |
| 17 | Rika Hongo | 163.18 | 17 | 55.93 | 16 | 107.25 |
| 18 | Rinka Watanabe | 161.99 | 23 | 50.47 | 14 | 111.52 |
| 19 | Miyabi Oba | 157.79 | 15 | 57.08 | 20 | 100.71 |
| 20 | Saki Miyake | 154.66 | 20 | 51.41 | 19 | 103.25 |
| 21 | Hiyori Tokura | 149.28 | 19 | 51.98 | 21 | 97.30 |
| 22 | Miyu Nakashio | 147.46 | 22 | 50.86 | 22 | 96.60 |
| 23 | Ayumi Kagotani | 141.11 | 21 | 51.09 | 23 | 90.02 |
| 24 | Yuka Nagai | 128.47 | 24 | 49.59 | 24 | 78.88 |
| Did not advance to free skating |||||||
| 25 | Sui Takeuchi | | 25 | 47.79 | — | — |
| 26 | Hinano Isobe | | 26 | 47.69 | — | — |
| 27 | Ibuki Sato | | 27 | 46.75 | — | — |
| 28 | Rin Nitaya | | 28 | 44.81 | — | — |
| 29 | Riona Kato | | 29 | 41.99 | — | — |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Miu Suzaki / Ryuichi Kihara | 157.70 | 1 | 59.03 | 1 | 98.67 |
| 2 | Riku Miura / Shoya Ichihashi | withdrew | 2 | 49.70 | withdrew | withdrew |

### Ice dance

| Rank | Name | Total points | RD | RD | FS | FS |
| 1 | Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto | 152.60 | 1 | 52.21 | 1 | 100.39 |
| 2 | Kiria Hirayama / Axel Lamasse | 121.04 | 3 | 43.49 | 2 | 77.55 |
| 3 | Mio Iida / Kenta Ishibashi | 119.30 | 2 | 43.67 | 3 | 75.63 |

## Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships

The 2018–19 Junior Championships took place on November 23–25, 2018 in Fukuoka.

### Men

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Tatsuya Tsuboi | 222.79 | 2 | 78.23 | 2 | 144.56 |
| 2 | Shun Sato | 222.30 | 6 | 66.01 | 1 | 156.29 |
| 3 | Koshiro Shimada | 210.03 | 1 | 82.35 | 5 | 127.68 |
| 4 | Yuto Kishina | 198.84 | 3 | 74.26 | 6 | 124.58 |
| 5 | Yuma Kagiyama | 197.60 | 10 | 60.71 | 3 | 136.89 |
| 6 | Sena Miyake | 197.02 | 4 | 72.73 | 7 | 124.29 |
| 7 | Mitsuki Sumoto | 192.88 | 5 | 69.89 | 8 | 122.99 |
| 8 | Kao Miura | 190.88 | 8 | 62.20 | 4 | 128.68 |
| 9 | Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda | 174.63 | 7 | 63.34 | 9 | 111.29 |
| 10 | Takeru Amine Kataise | 163.56 | 9 | 61.87 | 10 | 101.69 |
| 11 | Takumi Sugiyama | 152.33 | 11 | 53.78 | 13 | 98.55 |
| 12 | Keisuke Kadowaki | 150.47 | 12 | 53.71 | 15 | 96.76 |
| 13 | Haruya Sasaki | 149.56 | 14 | 50.68 | 12 | 98.88 |
| 14 | Shunsuke Nakamura | 149.45 | 16 | 48.97 | 11 | 100.48 |
| 15 | Yuga Furusho | 145.45 | 20 | 47.77 | 14 | 97.68 |
| 16 | Kosho Oshima | 140.92 | 19 | 48.08 | 17 | 92.84 |
| 17 | Yuki Kunikata | 140.34 | 23 | 47.20 | 16 | 93.14 |
| 18 | Sora Tarumi | 138.87 | 18 | 48.43 | 19 | 90.44 |
| 19 | Syunya Matsuoka | 138.87 | 17 | 48.95 | 20 | 89.92 |
| 20 | Sumitada Moriguchi | 138.67 | 24 | 47.05 | 18 | 91.62 |
| 21 | Nozomu Yoshioka | 137.23 | 21 | 47.43 | 21 | 89.80 |
| 22 | Keita Kuninaka | 134.40 | 15 | 49.84 | 22 | 84.56 |
| 23 | Kimichika Wada | 130.83 | 13 | 51.77 | 24 | 79.06 |
| 24 | Minato Shiga | 128.01 | 22 | 47.40 | 23 | 80.61 |
| Did not advance to free skating |||||||
| 25 | Ryoga Morimoto | | 25 | 47.05 | | |
| 26 | Rei Suzuki | | 26 | 43.67 | | |
| 27 | Syun Kobayashi | | 27 | 43.50 | | |
| 28 | Ryusei Kikuchi | | 28 | 43.42 | | |
| 29 | Tatuma Furuya | | 29 | 39.80 | | |
| 30 | Shuntaro Asaga | | 30 | 25.81 | | |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Yuhana Yokoi | 181.84 | 1 | 61.86 | 1 | 119.98 |
| 2 | Nana Araki | 170.90 | 2 | 58.51 | 2 | 112.39 |
| 3 | Tomoe Kawabata | 158.16 | 12 | 52.05 | 3 | 106.11 |
| 4 | Rinka Watanabe | 157.70 | 6 | 54.16 | 5 | 103.54 |
| 5 | Yuna Aoki | 157.34 | 4 | 55.23 | 6 | 102.11 |
| 6 | Wakana Naganawa | 154.94 | 15 | 50.31 | 4 | 104.63 |
| 7 | Moa Iwano | 153.60 | 3 | 56.31 | 9 | 97.29 |
| 8 | Rino Matsuike | 150.62 | 7 | 53.62 | 10 | 97.00 |
| 9 | Rion Sumiyoshi | 150.38 | 10 | 52.81 | 8 | 97.57 |
| 10 | Rika Tejima | 147.57 | 13 | 51.79 | 11 | 95.78 |
| 11 | Rino Kasakake | 147.31 | 17 | 48.81 | 7 | 98.50 |
| 12 | Miyu Honda | 147.17 | 9 | 53.29 | 14 | 93.88 |
| 13 | Serina Okada | 146.29 | 11 | 52.05 | 13 | 94.24 |
| 14 | Chisato Uramatsu | 145.00 | 5 | 54.49 | 16 | 90.51 |
| 15 | Shiika Yoshioka | 143.66 | 16 | 50.10 | 15 | 93.56 |
| 16 | Riko Takino | 140.61 | 14 | 50.83 | 17 | 89.78 |
| 17 | Sara Honda | 139.61 | 23 | 44.45 | 12 | 95.16 |
| 18 | Mone Chiba | 136.91 | 8 | 53.50 | 19 | 83.41 |
| 19 | Yukino Fuji | 132.71 | 19 | 47.83 | 18 | 84.88 |
| 20 | Rei Yoshimoto | 130.15 | 20 | 47.34 | 20 | 82.81 |
| 21 | Yuka Chon | 127.19 | 21 | 45.35 | 21 | 81.84 |
| 22 | Natsu Suzuki | 124.44 | 24 | 44.16 | 22 | 80.28 |
| 23 | Momoka Hatasaki | 120.87 | 18 | 47.96 | 24 | 72.91 |
| 24 | Airi Miyamoto | 120.78 | 22 | 45.14 | 23 | 75.64 |
| Did not advance to free skating |||||||
| 25 | Hana Horimi | | 25 | 43.87 | | |
| 26 | Niina Takeno | | 26 | 43.17 | | |
| 27 | Akari Matsuoka | | 27 | 43.01 | | |
| 28 | Nonoka Ise | | 28 | 42.71 | | |
| 29 | Marin Okamoto | | 29 | 42.70 | | |
| 30 | Hinako Katayama | | 30 | 39.92 | | |

## International team selections

On 25 December 2018, the Japan Skating Federation published its selections for the 2019 World Championships, 2019 Four Continents Championships, 2019 World Junior Championships, and 2019 Winter Universiade.

### World Championships

The 2019 World Championships were held on March 18–24, 2019 in Saitama, Japan.
| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| 1 | Shoma Uno | Kaori Sakamoto | Miu Suzaki / Ryuichi Kihara | Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto |
| 2 | Keiji Tanaka | Rika Kihira | | |
| 3 | Yuzuru Hanyu | Satoko Miyahara | | |
| 1st alt. | Kazuki Tomono | Mai Mihara | | |
| 2nd alt. | Sota Yamamoto | Wakaba Higuchi | | |
| 3rd alt. | Koshiro Shimada | Mako Yamashita | | |

### Four Continents Championships

The 2019 Four Continents Championships were held on February 7–10, 2019 in Anaheim, United States.
| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| 1 | Shoma Uno | Kaori Sakamoto | Miu Suzaki / Ryuichi Kihara | Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto |
| 2 | Keiji Tanaka | Rika Kihira | | |
| 3 | Kazuki Tomono | Mai Mihara | | |
| 1st alt. | Sota Yamamoto | Wakaba Higuchi | | |
| 2nd alt. | Hiroaki Sato | Mako Yamashita | | |

### World Junior Championships

The 2019 World Junior Championships were held on March 4–10, 2019 in Zagreb, Croatia.
| | Men | Ladies | Pairs |
| 1 | Tatsuya Tsuboi | Yuhana Yokoi | Riku Miura / Shoya Ichihashi |
| 2 | Koshiro Shimada | Tomoe Kawabata | |
| 3 | | Yuna Shiraiwa | |
| 1st alt. | Yuma Kagiyama | Nana Araki | |
| 2nd alt. | Shun Sato | Wakana Naganawa | |
| 3rd alt. | | Yuna Aoki | |

### Winter Universiade

The 2019 Winter Universiade were held on March 4–9, 2019 in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
| | Men | Ladies |
| 1 | Kazuki Tomono | Mai Mihara |
| 2 | Shu Nakamura | Hina Takeno |
| 1st alt. | Jun Suzuki | Rika Hongo |
| 2nd alt. | Kazuki Kushida | Miyabi Oba |