# 2006–07 Japan Figure Skating Championships

The 2006–07 Japan Figure Skating Championships were the 75th edition of the event. They were held between December 27 and 29, 2006 at the Rainbow Ice Arena in Nagoya. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dancing on the senior level. This event was used to determine the teams for the 2007 World Championships and the 2007 Four Continents Championships. The level of competition is senior-level only. Juniors compete at the Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships, where the top three advance to the 2007 World Junior Championships.

## Competition notes

* The following skaters placed high enough at Junior Nationals and so were invited to compete at Nationals: Tatsuki Machida, Takahito Mura, and Hirofumi Torii for men, and Nana Takeda, Rumi Suizu, and Satsuki Muramoto for ladies.

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Daisuke Takahashi | 256.08 | 1 | 85.55 | 1 | 170.53 |
| 2 | Nobunari Oda | 235.66 | 2 | 81.75 | 2 | 153.91 |
| 3 | Yasuharu Nanri | 212.56 | 3 | 72.30 | 3 | 140.26 |
| 4 | Noriyuki Kanzaki | 210.97 | 4 | 70.78 | 4 | 140.19 |
| 5 | Kensuke Nakaniwa | 201.08 | 6 | 68.25 | 5 | 132.83 |
| 6 | Takahiko Kozuka | 200.88 | 5 | 70.49 | 6 | 130.39 |
| 7 | Ryo Shibata | 177.34 | 11 | 54.35 | 8 | 122.99 |
| 8 | Takahito Mura | 176.45 | 13 | 51.60 | 7 | 124.85 |
| 9 | Hideo Umetani | 172.94 | 9 | 57.80 | 9 | 115.14 |
| 10 | Takemochi Ohgami | 166.97 | 8 | 59.11 | 10 | 107.86 |
| 11 | Tatsuya Kitagaki | 160.53 | 10 | 55.55 | 11 | 104.98 |
| 12 | Taku Tamura | 158.23 | 12 | 53.36 | 12 | 104.87 |
| 13 | Tatsuki Machida | 157.38 | 7 | 60.44 | 14 | 96.94 |
| 14 | Hirokazu Kobayashi | 149.61 | 14 | 51.44 | 13 | 98.17 |
| 15 | Yusuke Nakagawa | 142.59 | 18 | 48.09 | 16 | 94.50 |
| 16 | Naofumi Torii | 140.82 | 15 | 49.51 | 17 | 91.31 |
| 17 | Ken Tanabe | 139.07 | 17 | 48.76 | 18 | 90.31 |
| 18 | Hirofumi Torii | 136.83 | 20 | 40.97 | 15 | 95.86 |
| 19 | Hidenori Kambayashi | 130.91 | 16 | 49.18 | 20 | 81.73 |
| 20 | Mizuki Honda | 125.48 | 21 | 40.54 | 19 | 84.94 |
| 21 | Toru Kimura | 113.68 | 23 | 36.57 | 21 | 77.11 |
| 22 | Yuta Kurimura | 107.30 | 19 | 41.84 | 23 | 65.46 |
| 23 | Itsuki Namioka | 105.14 | 22 | 39.28 | 22 | 65.86 |
| 24 | Keisuke Kamagata | 88.64 | 24 | 31.20 | 24 | 57.44 |
| Did not advance to free skating |||||||
| 25 | Koji Nakaniwa | | 25 | 30.72 | | |
| 26 | Masato Endo | | 26 | 29.80 | | |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Mao Asada | 211.76 | 1 | 71.14 | 1 | 140.62 |
| 2 | Miki Ando | 185.65 | 2 | 69.50 | 3 | 116.15 |
| 3 | Yukari Nakano | 179.72 | 3 | 63.34 | 2 | 116.38 |
| 4 | Fumie Suguri | 172.56 | 5 | 58.56 | 4 | 114.00 |
| 5 | Yoshie Onda | 163.30 | 4 | 58.62 | 5 | 104.68 |
| 6 | Aki Sawada | 156.48 | 8 | 52.90 | 6 | 103.58 |
| 7 | Nana Takeda | 152.90 | 9 | 51.78 | 7 | 101.12 |
| 8 | Mai Asada | 148.28 | 6 | 55.56 | 11 | 92.72 |
| 9 | Satsuki Muramoto | 146.39 | 13 | 47.54 | 8 | 98.85 |
| 10 | Akiko Suzuki | 145.22 | 11 | 48.72 | 9 | 96.50 |
| 11 | Rumi Suizu | 144.56 | 10 | 51.10 | 10 | 93.46 |
| 12 | Yukina Ohta | 142.62 | 7 | 54.46 | 13 | 88.16 |
| 13 | Yuki Umetani | 130.81 | 15 | 42.24 | 12 | 88.57 |
| 14 | Emi Hirai | 124.11 | 17 | 39.10 | 14 | 85.01 |
| 15 | Miki Sone | 121.09 | 12 | 48.14 | 18 | 72.95 |
| 16 | Sayaka Yodo | 118.37 | 14 | 44.42 | 17 | 73.95 |
| 17 | Haruka Miki | 117.65 | 19 | 37.78 | 15 | 79.87 |
| 18 | Ayumi Miyamoto | 114.54 | 21 | 36.88 | 16 | 77.66 |
| 19 | Kazuha Asami | 109.70 | 18 | 38.24 | 20 | 71.46 |
| 20 | Sachie Yamaguchi | 105.61 | 23 | 33.80 | 19 | 71.81 |
| 21 | Ayako Hagiwara | 104.45 | 16 | 40.92 | 23 | 63.53 |
| 22 | Yuko Iwaki | 103.98 | 22 | 35.86 | 21 | 68.12 |
| 23 | Nagisa Hayashi | 103.68 | 20 | 37.70 | 22 | 65.98 |
| 24 | Asami Nagumo | 89.41 | 24 | 32.88 | 24 | 56.53 |
| Did not advance to free skating |||||||
| 25 | Yurina Nagata | | 25 | 31.20 | | |
| 26 | Hinako Kikuchi | | 26 | 31.18 | | |
| 27 | Mai Furukawa | | 27 | 28.26 | | |
| 28 | Erika Fujisawa | | 28 | 27.62 | | |
| 29 | Mio Yamazaki | | 29 | 27.32 | | |

### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Total points | CD | CD | OD | OD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Nozomi Watanabe / Akiyuki Kido | 162.02 | 1 | 28.97 | 1 | 51.08 | 1 | 81.97 |
| 2 | Cathy Reed / Chris Reed | 150.04 | 2 | 26.74 | 2 | 46.30 | 2 | 77.00 |
| 3 | Minami Sakacho / Tatsuya Sakacho | 120.76 | 3 | 20.41 | 3 | 37.01 | 3 | 63.34 |

## Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships

The 2006–07 Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships took place between November 26 and 27, 2006 in Hiroshima.

### Men

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Tatsuki Machida | 165.38 | 1 | 60.35 | 2 | 105.03 |
| 2 | Takahito Mura | 164.58 | 2 | 58.35 | 1 | 106.23 |
| 3 | Hirofumi Torii | 145.76 | 5 | 47.39 | 3 | 98.37 |
| 4 | Naoto Saito | 136.57 | 3 | 50.85 | 6 | 85.72 |
| 5 | Yukihiro Yoshida | 132.24 | 7 | 42.69 | 5 | 89.55 |
| 6 | Akio Sasaki | 132.10 | 4 | 49.85 | 11 | 82.25 |
| 7 | Yuzuru Hanyu | 128.96 | 18 | 38.80 | 4 | 90.16 |
| 8 | Kento Nakamura | 127.50 | 6 | 44.37 | 9 | 83.13 |
| 9 | Takuya Kondo | 126.47 | 9 | 41.62 | 7 | 84.85 |
| 10 | Ryuju Hino | 124.65 | 13 | 40.45 | 8 | 84.20 |
| 11 | Kunihito Yuasa | 121.28 | 10 | 41.46 | 12 | 79.82 |
| 12 | Junzo Nishigami | 119.42 | 22 | 37.15 | 10 | 82.27 |
| 13 | Tomoyuki Koriyama | 117.66 | 11 | 41.05 | 13 | 76.61 |
| 14 | Yuki Horinouchi | 112.99 | 14 | 40.06 | 14 | 72.93 |
| 15 | Ikuya Itai | 110.25 | 15 | 39.30 | 16 | 70.95 |
| 16 | Keiji Tanaka | 110.21 | 21 | 37.54 | 15 | 72.67 |
| 17 | Ryuichi Kihara | 110.17 | 12 | 40.85 | 17 | 69.32 |
| 18 | Satoshi Nakamura | 106.35 | 17 | 38.82 | 18 | 67.53 |
| 19 | Takumi Suenaga | 105.01 | 8 | 42.54 | 20 | 62.47 |
| 20 | Junki Sano | 100.22 | 24 | 35.37 | 19 | 64.85 |
| 21 | Seiya Hashimoto | 99.00 | 16 | 39.02 | 23 | 59.98 |
| 22 | Hayato Miyazaki | 98.96 | 23 | 37.04 | 21 | 61.92 |
| 23 | Yoji Tsuboi | 98.93 | 19 | 37.85 | 22 | 61.08 |
| 24 | Atsuki Kunisawa | 95.19 | 20 | 37.67 | 24 | 57.52 |
| Did not advance to free skating |||||||
| 25 | Tatsuya Ishii | | 25 | 34.59 | | |
| 26 | Koshin Yamada | | 26 | 34.36 | | |
| 27 | Kaoru Tsuji | | 27 | 34.20 | | |
| 28 | Kozuke Nozoe | | 28 | 32.38 | | |
| 29 | Ryoichi Eguchi | | 29 | 32.13 | | |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Nana Takeda | 137.08 | 1 | 48.66 | 2 | 88.42 |
| 2 | Rumi Suizu | 132.61 | 4 | 43.02 | 1 | 89.59 |
| 3 | Satsuki Muramoto | 131.23 | 3 | 44.14 | 3 | 87.09 |
| 4 | Ayane Nakamura | 123.56 | 10 | 39.26 | 5 | 84.30 |
| 5 | Nanoha Sato | 122.84 | 5 | 42.94 | 7 | 79.90 |
| 6 | Yuki Nishino | 121.83 | 19 | 35.92 | 4 | 85.91 |
| 7 | Miruku Matsushita | 119.30 | 20 | 35.20 | 6 | 84.10 |
| 8 | Yuka Ishikawa | 116.19 | 15 | 37.82 | 8 | 78.37 |
| 9 | Yurina Nobuhara | 115.92 | 9 | 39.28 | 9 | 76.64 |
| 10 | Mutsumi Takayama | 110.36 | 7 | 41.08 | 12 | 69.28 |
| 11 | Risa Mochizuki | 110.10 | 6 | 42.06 | 14 | 68.04 |
| 12 | Shoko Ishikawa | 108.27 | 2 | 45.04 | 18 | 63.23 |
| 13 | Shion Kokubun | 108.16 | 14 | 38.22 | 11 | 69.94 |
| 14 | Naomi Tanigawa | 106.94 | 8 | 39.76 | 15 | 67.18 |
| 15 | Poemu Nakamura | 105.76 | 24 | 32.86 | 10 | 72.90 |
| 16 | Kuriko Oikawa | 103.30 | 16 | 37.38 | 16 | 65.92 |
| 17 | Mari Suzuki | 101.45 | 11 | 39.26 | 20 | 62.19 |
| 18 | Akiko Kitamura | 101.28 | 23 | 32.94 | 13 | 68.34 |
| 19 | Kana Nishizawa | 100.39 | 17 | 37.28 | 19 | 63.11 |
| 20 | Miyu Yamazaki | 98.39 | 22 | 33.20 | 17 | 65.19 |
| 21 | Haruka Inoue | 98.09 | 13 | 38.62 | 21 | 59.47 |
| 22 | Mao Nagao | 96.83 | 12 | 38.68 | 23 | 58.15 |
| 23 | Kaori Tatematsu | 95.08 | 18 | 36.22 | 22 | 58.86 |
| 24 | Ayumi Goto | 89.46 | 21 | 33.54 | 24 | 55.92 |
| Did not advance to free skating |||||||
| 25 | Mari Senda | | 25 | 31.86 | | |
| 26 | Sae Onishi | | 26 | 27.84 | | |
| 27 | Eri Seto | | 27 | 26.58 | | |
| WD | Kana Muramoto | | | | | |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Narumi Takahashi / Yoshiaki Yamada | 87.23 | 1 | 31.44 | 1 | 55.79 |

### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Total points | CD | CD | OD | OD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Rina Sawayama / Taiyo Mizutani | 106.99 | 1 | 21.39 | 1 | 36.28 | 1 | 49.32 |

## International team selections
### World Championships

| | Men | Ladies | Ice dancing |
| 1 | Daisuke Takahashi | Mao Asada | Nozomi Watanabe / Akiyuki Kido |
| 2 | Nobunari Oda | Miki Ando | |
| 3 | | Yukari Nakano | |
| 1st Alternate | Yasuharu Nanri | Fumie Suguri | |
| 2nd Alternate | Noriyuki Kanzaki | Yoshie Onda | |

### Four Continents Championships

| | Men | Ladies | Ice dancing |
| 1 | Yasuharu Nanri | Fumie Suguri | Chris Reed / Cathy Reed |
| 2 | Noriyuki Kanzaki | Yoshie Onda | |
| 3 | Kensuke Nakaniwa | Aki Sawada | |