# 2021–22 Japan Figure Skating Championships

The 2021–22 Japan Figure Skating Championships were held in Saitama, Saitama on December 22–26, 2021. It was the 90th 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 2022 Four Continents Championships, the 2022 Winter Olympics, and the 2022 World Championships.

## Qualifying

Competitors either qualified at regional and sectional competitions, held from September to November 2021, or earned a bye.
| Date | Event | Type | Location | Results |
| September 23–26, 2021 | Chu-Shikoku-Kyushu | Regional | Iizuka, Fukuoka | Details |
| September 24–26, 2021 | Chubu | Regional | Nagoya, Aichi | Details |
| Sept. 30 – Oct. 3, 2021 | Kanto | Regional | Chiba, Chiba | Details |
| October 1–3, 2021 | Tohoku-Hokkaido | Regional | Sapporo, Hokkaido | Details |
| October 7–10, 2021 | Kinki | Regional | Uji, Kyoto | Details |
| October 7–10, 2021 | Tokyo | Regional | Nishitōkyō, Tokyo | Details |
| October 22–24, 2021 | Japan Novice Championships | Final | Ōtsu, Shiga | Details |
| October 28–31, 2021 | Eastern Section | Sectional | Nishitōkyō, Tokyo | Details |
| November 4–7, 2021 | Western Section | Sectional | Fukuoka, Fukuoka | Details |
| November 19–21, 2021 | Japan Junior Championships | Final | Nagoya, Aichi | Details |
| December 22–26, 2021 | Japan Championships | Final | Saitama, Saitama | Details |

## Medal summary
### Senior

| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men | Yuzuru Hanyu | Shoma Uno | Yuma Kagiyama |
| Women | Kaori Sakamoto | Wakaba Higuchi | Mana Kawabe |
| Pairs | Miyu Yunoki / Shoya Ichihashi | No other competitors | No other competitors |
| Ice dance | Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto | Kana Muramoto / Daisuke Takahashi | Ayumi Takanami / Shingo Nishiyama |

### Junior

| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men | Kao Miura | Tatsuya Tsuboi | Nozomu Yoshioka |
| Women | Mao Shimada | Rion Sumiyoshi | Mone Chiba |
| Pairs | No competitors | No competitors | No competitors |
| Ice dance | Nao Kida / Masaya Morita | Ayano Sasaki / Atsuhiko Tamura | Kaho Yamashita / Yuto Nagata |

### Novice

| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men (Novice A) | Rio Nakata | Taiga Nishino | Sena Takahashi |
| Men (Novice B) | Hayato Okazaki | Shin Takenaka | Sakutaro Yoshino |
| Women (Novice A) | Mao Shimada | Kaoruko Wada | Haruna Murakami |
| Women (Novice B) | Saho Ootake | Reina Kawakatsu | Riria Kono |
| Pairs | No competitors | No competitors | No competitors |
| Ice dance | Sumire Yoshida / Ibuki Ogahara | Haru Matsuzaki / Haruki Motomura | Mihana Nakajima / Kenichiro Hirose |

## Entries

A list of preliminary entries was published on December 4, 2021. Names with an asterisk (*) denote junior skaters.
| Men | Women | Pairs | Ice dance |
| Reo Ishizuka | Yuna Aoki | Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara (withdrew) | Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto |
| Shoma Uno | Nana Araki | Miyu Yunoki / Shoya Ichihashi | Ayumi Takanami / Shingo Nishiyama |
| Kosho Oshima* | Chisato Uramatsu | | Nicole Takahashi / Shiloh Judd (withdrew) |
| Yuma Kagiyama | Miyabi Oba | | Kiria Hirayama / Aru Tateno |
| Takeru Kataise* | Ayumi Kagotani | | Rikako Fukase / Eichu Cho (withdrew) |
| Yuto Kishina | Tomoe Kawabata (withdrew) | | Kana Muramoto / Daisuke Takahashi |
| Kazuki Kushida | Mana Kawabe | | Haruno Yajima / Yoshimitsu Ikeda (withdrew) |
| Shun Sato | Rika Kihira (withdrew) | | |
| Koshiro Shimada | Kaori Sakamoto | | |
| Takumi Sugiyama | Ibuki Satoh | | |
| Gakuto Suzuki | Ayumi Shibayama* | | |
| Rei Suzuki | Yuna Shiraiwa | | |
| Mitsuki Sumoto | Rion Sumiyoshi* | | |
| Keiji Tanaka | Niina Takeno | | |
| Takaya Tsujimura | Hina Takeno | | |
| Tatsuya Tsuboi* | Azusa Tanaka* | | |
| Kazuki Tomono | Mone Chiba* | | |
| Shunsuke Nakamura* | Ami Nakai* | | |
| Kazuki Hasegawa | Rin Nitaya | | |
| Yuzuru Hanyu | Nonoka Noguchi | | |
| Koutaro Hayakawa | Wakaba Higuchi | | |
| Yuga Furusho | Marin Honda | | |
| Tatuma Furuya | Rino Matsuike | | |
| Yoshimasa Hori | Akari Matsubara | | |
| Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda | Mai Mihara | | |
| Kao Miura* | Saki Miyake | | |
| Sena Miyake | Satoko Miyahara | | |
| Sumitada Moriguchi | Misaki Morishita | | |
| Taichiro Yamakuma | Mako Yamashita | | |
| Sōta Yamamoto | Yuhana Yokoi | | |
| Nozomu Yoshioka* | Hana Yoshida* | | |
| Kimichika Wada | Rinka Watanabe | | |

### Junior

The top six finishers at the Japan Junior Championships in men's and women's singles were added to the Japan Championships. The women's junior national champion, Mao Shimada, was a novice skater and therefore not eligible for the senior Championships. The seventh-place finisher, Ami Nakai, was bumped up in Shimada's place.
| | Men | Women |
| 1 | Kao Miura | Rion Sumiyoshi |
| 2 | Tatsuya Tsuboi | Mone Chiba |
| 3 | Nozomu Yoshioka | Hana Yoshida |
| 4 | Takeru Kataise | Azusa Tanaka |
| 5 | Kosho Oshima | Ayumi Shibayama |
| 6 | Shunsuke Nakamura | Ami Nakai |

### Changes to preliminary entries

| Date | Discipline | Withdrew | Added | Reason/Other notes |
| December 15 | Pairs | Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara | N/A | COVID-related travel restrictions |
| December 15 | Ice dance | Nicole Takahashi / Shiloh Judd | N/A | COVID-related travel restrictions |
| December 15 | Ice dance | Rikako Fukase / Eichu Cho | N/A | COVID-related travel restrictions |
| December 21 | Women | Rika Kihira | N/A | Right ankle injury |
| December 22 | Women | Tomoe Kawabata | N/A | Injury and lack of training due to traffic accident |
| December 22 | Ice dance | Haruno Yajima / Yoshimitsu Ikeda | N/A | Split |

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Yuzuru Hanyu | 322.36 | 1 | 111.31 | 1 | 211.05 |
| 2 | Shoma Uno | 295.82 | 2 | 101.88 | 3 | 193.94 |
| 3 | Yuma Kagiyama | 292.41 | 3 | 95.15 | 2 | 197.26 |
| 4 | Kao Miura | 276.16 | 5 | 92.81 | 4 | 183.35 |
| 5 | Kazuki Tomono | 263.67 | 7 | 87.79 | 5 | 175.88 |
| 6 | Sena Miyake | 252.82 | 6 | 90.52 | 7 | 162.30 |
| 7 | Shun Sato | 252.13 | 8 | 87.27 | 6 | 164.86 |
| 8 | Sōta Yamamoto | 240.18 | 4 | 93.79 | 12 | 146.39 |
| 9 | Tatsuya Tsuboi | 235.21 | 12 | 77.31 | 8 | 157.90 |
| 10 | Koshiro Shimada | 233.67 | 9 | 86.76 | 10 | 146.91 |
| 11 | Keiji Tanaka | 232.42 | 10 | 84.10 | 9 | 148.32 |
| 12 | Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda | 225.22 | 11 | 78.53 | 11 | 146.69 |
| 13 | Sumitada Moriguchi | 201.30 | 13 | 76.14 | 16 | 125.16 |
| 14 | Takeru Amine Kataise | 199.65 | 16 | 69.32 | 14 | 130.33 |
| 15 | Mitsuki Sumoto | 199.62 | 17 | 68.55 | 13 | 131.07 |
| 16 | Kosho Oshima | 195.04 | 18 | 65.86 | 15 | 129.18 |
| 17 | Kazuki Kushida | 186.99 | 15 | 72.37 | 19 | 114.62 |
| 18 | Reo Ishizuka | 178.01 | 20 | 57.06 | 17 | 120.95 |
| 19 | Takumi Sugiyama | 174.70 | 19 | 65.34 | 20 | 109.36 |
| 20 | Nozomu Yoshioka | 170.57 | 14 | 72.94 | 24 | 97.63 |
| 21 | Taichiro Yamakuma | 170.56 | 22 | 55.11 | 18 | 115.45 |
| 22 | Kazuki Hasegawa | 161.92 | 21 | 56.86 | 22 | 105.06 |
| 23 | Rei Suzuki | 158.69 | 24 | 53.45 | 21 | 105.24 |
| 24 | Gakuto Suzuki | 152.85 | 23 | 55.00 | 23 | 97.85 |
| Did not advance to free skating |||||||
| 25 | Shunsuke Nakamura | 52.78 | 25 | 52.78 | — | — |
| 26 | Takaya Tsujimura | 50.03 | 26 | 50.03 | — | — |
| 27 | Tatuma Furuya | 46.59 | 27 | 46.59 | — | — |
| 28 | Yuga Furusho | 45.99 | 28 | 45.99 | — | — |
| 29 | Yuto Kishina | 45.92 | 29 | 45.92 | — | — |
| 30 | Kimichika Wada | 42.34 | 30 | 42.34 | — | — |
| 31 | Koutaro Hayakawa | 38.52 | 31 | 38.52 | — | — |
| 32 | Yoshimasa Hori | 35.83 | 32 | 35.83 | — | — |

### Women

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Kaori Sakamoto | 234.06 | 1 | 79.23 | 1 | 154.83 |
| 2 | Wakaba Higuchi | 221.78 | 2 | 74.66 | 2 | 147.12 |
| 3 | Mana Kawabe | 209.65 | 3 | 74.27 | 3 | 135.38 |
| 4 | Mai Mihara | 206.86 | 5 | 73.66 | 5 | 133.20 |
| 5 | Satoko Miyahara | 206.51 | 4 | 73.76 | 6 | 132.75 |
| 6 | Rinka Watanabe | 199.15 | 8 | 65.07 | 4 | 134.08 |
| 7 | Rino Matsuike | 198.77 | 6 | 72.31 | 7 | 126.46 |
| 8 | Rion Sumiyoshi | 189.16 | 7 | 67.39 | 11 | 121.77 |
| 9 | Hana Yoshida | 187.44 | 13 | 61.35 | 8 | 126.09 |
| 10 | Ayumi Shibayama | 186.12 | 11 | 62.48 | 10 | 123.64 |
| 11 | Mone Chiba | 184.30 | 9 | 64.41 | 12 | 119.89 |
| 12 | Yuhana Yokoi | 183.84 | 14 | 59.84 | 9 | 124.00 |
| 13 | Mako Yamashita | 179.61 | 12 | 61.84 | 13 | 117.77 |
| 14 | Nana Araki | 174.25 | 20 | 57.11 | 14 | 117.14 |
| 15 | Ibuki Satoh | 171.86 | 15 | 59.38 | 15 | 112.48 |
| 16 | Akari Matsubara | 170.73 | 17 | 59.13 | 16 | 111.60 |
| 17 | Hina Takeno | 169.57 | 16 | 59.33 | 17 | 110.24 |
| 18 | Azusa Tanaka | 168.45 | 10 | 63.92 | 19 | 104.53 |
| 19 | Miyabi Oba | 164.96 | 24 | 55.69 | 18 | 109.27 |
| 20 | Ayumi Kagotani | 158.39 | 22 | 55.80 | 20 | 102.59 |
| 21 | Marin Honda | 156.53 | 23 | 55.73 | 21 | 100.80 |
| 22 | Chisato Uramatsu | 152.86 | 18 | 58.41 | 22 | 94.45 |
| 23 | Yuna Shiraiwa | 145.89 | 21 | 56.93 | 23 | 88.96 |
| 24 | Niina Takeno | 141.84 | 19 | 58.36 | 24 | 83.48 |
| Did not advance to free skating |||||||
| 25 | Nonoka Noguchi | 55.36 | 25 | 55.36 | — | — |
| 26 | Saki Miyake | 53.50 | 26 | 53.50 | — | — |
| 27 | Ami Nakai | 52.65 | 27 | 52.65 | — | — |
| 28 | Misaki Morishita | 48.37 | 29 | 48.37 | — | — |
| 29 | Rin Nitaya | 47.21 | 28 | 47.21 | — | — |
| 30 | Yuna Aoki | 46.90 | 30 | 46.90 | — | — |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Miyu Yunoki / Shoya Ichihashi | 115.72 | 1 | 34.77 | 1 | 80.95 |

### Ice dance

| Rank | Name | Total points | RD | RD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto | 178.17 | 1 | 68.16 | 2 | 110.01 |
| 2 | Kana Muramoto / Daisuke Takahashi | 176.31 | 2 | 63.35 | 1 | 112.96 |
| 3 | Ayumi Takanami / Shingo Nishiyama | 148.29 | 4 | 58.10 | 3 | 90.19 |
| 4 | Kiria Hirayama / Aru Tateno | 147.39 | 3 | 58.93 | 4 | 88.46 |

## Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships

The 2021–22 Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships were held in Nagoya, Aichi from November 19–21, 2021. The national champions in men's and women's singles earned automatic berths on the 2022 World Junior Championships team. 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 13, 2021. No pairs were entered. Names with an asterisk (*) denote novice skaters.
| Men | Women | Ice dance |
| Shuntaro Asaga | Saki Isomura | Nao Kida / Masaya Morita |
| Kosho Oshima | Haruna Iwasaki | Haruhi Komatsu / Eisuke Kumano |
| Sakura Odagaki | Rena Uezono* | Ayano Sasaki / Atsuhiko Tamura |
| Haru Kakiuchi | Maria Egawa | Midori Fujiki / Seiya Shimokawa |
| Takeru Kataise | Marin Okamoto | Kaho Yamashita / Yuto Nagata |
| Keisuke Kadowaki | Yurina Okuno | |
| Ryusei Kikuchi | Kaho Kanno | |
| Ryota Kitamura | Ikura Kushida | |
| Tomoki Kimura | Chiduru Goto | |
| Shio Kojima | Chikako Saegusa | |
| Shun Kobayashi | Ayumi Shibayama | |
| Taiki Shinohara | Mao Shimada* | |
| Sora Suzuki | Sae Shimizu | |
| Tudoi Suto | Natsu Suzuki | |
| Seigo Tauchi | Rion Sumiyoshi | |
| Sena Takahashi* | Sakurako Daimon | |
| Sora Tarumi | Yo Takagi | |
| Tatsuya Tsuboi | Mone Takahashi | |
| Rio Nakata* | Azusa Tanaka | |
| Shunsuke Nakamura | Sakurako Tanabe | |
| Taiga Nishino* | Mone Chiba | |
| Atsushi Higuchi | Ami Nakai | |
| Haruki Honda | Haruna Murakami* | |
| Shunya Matsuoka | Aiko Motoe | |
| Kao Miura | Kei Yamada* | |
| Masaya Mishima | Miyu Yunoki | |
| Ryoga Morimoto | Kinayu Yokoi | |
| Ryushin Yamada | Hana Yoshida | |
| Nozomu Yoshioka | Rei Yoshimoto | |
| Yuki Yoshioka* | Kaoruko Wada* | |

#### Novice

Top finishers at the Japan Novice Championships in men's and women's singles were added to the Japan Junior Championships.
| | Men | Women |
| 1 | Rio Nakata | Mao Shimada |
| 2 | Taiga Nishino | Kaoruko Wada |
| 3 | Sena Takahashi | Haruna Murakami |
| 4 | Yuki Yoshioka | Kei Yamada |
| 5 | | Rena Uezono |

### Results
#### Junior men

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Kao Miura | 229.28 | 7 | 64.00 | 1 | 165.28 |
| 2 | Tatsuya Tsuboi | 227.60 | 1 | 81.05 | 2 | 146.55 |
| 3 | Nozomu Yoshioka | 191.80 | 2 | 68.55 | 3 | 123.25 |
| 4 | Takeru Amine Kataise | 188.37 | 3 | 67.99 | 4 | 120.79 |
| 5 | Kosho Oshima | 183.86 | 6 | 65.31 | 5 | 118.55 |
| 6 | Shunsuke Nakamura | 180.13 | 4 | 67.49 | 6 | 112.71 |
| 7 | Ryoga Morimoto | 172.23 | 5 | 65.46 | 12 | 106.77 |
| 8 | Ryusei Kikuchi | 172.03 | 9 | 59.42 | 8 | 112.61 |
| 9 | Shunya Matsuoka | 170.33 | 8 | 63.00 | 11 | 107.33 |
| 10 | Keisuke Kadowaki | 169.53 | 11 | 56.88 | 7 | 112.65 |
| 11 | Seigo Tauchi | 166.21 | 12 | 56.73 | 10 | 109.48 |
| 12 | Sena Takahashi | 163.16 | 17 | 53.45 | 9 | 109.71 |
| 13 | Shuntaro Asaga | 156.92 | 14 | 55.92 | 13 | 101.00 |
| 14 | Haru Kakiuchi | 149.46 | 13 | 56.00 | 16 | 93.46 |
| 15 | Tomoki Kimura | 146.55 | 19 | 49.96 | 14 | 96.59 |
| 16 | Tudoi Suto | 145.36 | 16 | 53.51 | 18 | 91.85 |
| 17 | Rio Nakata | 141.47 | 10 | 57.87 | 23 | 84.60 |
| 18 | Ryota Kitamura | 140.75 | 23 | 46.43 | 15 | 94.32 |
| 19 | Haruyuki Higuchi | 138.93 | 20 | 48.69 | 20 | 90.24 |
| 20 | Haruki Honda | 138.79 | 24 | 46.86 | 17 | 91.93 |
| 21 | Sora Tarumi | 138.65 | 15 | 53.84 | 22 | 84.81 |
| 22 | Shio Kojima | 138.42 | 22 | 48.07 | 19 | 90.35 |
| 23 | Masaya Mishima | 137.08 | 21 | 48.15 | 21 | 88.93 |
| 24 | Shun Kobayashi | 133.58 | 18 | 51.03 | 24 | 82.55 |
| Did not advance to free skating |||||||
| 25 | Taiga Nishino | 46.41 | 25 | 46.41 | — | — |
| 26 | Taiki Shinohara | 44.76 | 26 | 44.76 | — | — |
| 27 | Ryushin Yamada | 44.56 | 27 | 44.56 | — | — |
| 28 | Sakura Odagaki | 43.05 | 28 | 43.05 | — | — |
| 29 | Sora Suzuki | 35.43 | 29 | 35.43 | — | — |
| 30 | Yuki Yoshioka | 33.28 | 30 | 33.28 | — | — |

#### Junior women

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Mao Shimada | 188.51 | 4 | 61.76 | 1 | 126.75 |
| 2 | Rion Sumiyoshi | 180.25 | 1 | 65.34 | 3 | 114.91 |
| 3 | Mone Chiba | 175.41 | 7 | 58.97 | 2 | 116.44 |
| 4 | Hana Yoshida | 172.55 | 3 | 62.48 | 4 | 110.07 |
| 5 | Azusa Tanaka | 171.65 | 2 | 62.56 | 5 | 109.06 |
| 6 | Ayumi Shibayama | 166.68 | 5 | 60.17 | 8 | 106.51 |
| 7 | Ami Nakai | 165.76 | 10 | 56.78 | 6 | 108.98 |
| 8 | Ikura Kushida | 165.09 | 9 | 57.35 | 7 | 107.74 |
| 9 | Sakurako Daimon | 160.47 | 6 | 59.95 | 11 | 100.52 |
| 10 | Yo Takagi | 158.58 | 11 | 55.84 | 10 | 102.74 |
| 11 | Kaoruko Wada | 156.77 | 12 | 52.89 | 9 | 103.88 |
| 12 | Yurina Okuno | 152.86 | 8 | 58.02 | 14 | 94.84 |
| 13 | Sae Shimizu | 149.07 | 19 | 50.06 | 12 | 99.01 |
| 14 | Marin Okamoto | 146.96 | 21 | 49.29 | 13 | 97.67 |
| 15 | Kaho Kanno | 145.15 | 16 | 51.39 | 15 | 93.76 |
| 16 | Maria Egawa | 144.18 | 15 | 51.53 | 16 | 92.65 |
| 17 | Haruna Iwasaki | 143.09 | 14 | 51.85 | 17 | 91.24 |
| 18 | Rena Uezono | 136.05 | 20 | 49.32 | 18 | 86.73 |
| 19 | Kei Yamada | 135.09 | 18 | 50.38 | 20 | 84.71 |
| 20 | Kinayu Yokoi | 134.52 | 23 | 48.73 | 19 | 85.76 |
| 21 | Chiduru Goto | 131.63 | 17 | 50.74 | 21 | 80.89 |
| 22 | Chikako Saigusa | 128.73 | 13 | 52.28 | 23 | 76.45 |
| 23 | Mone Takahashi | 126.24 | 24 | 47.66 | 22 | 78.58 |
| 24 | Natsu Suzuki | 123.45 | 22 | 48.74 | 24 | 74.71 |
| Did not advance to free skating |||||||
| 25 | Haruna Murakami | 47.36 | 25 | 47.36 | — | — |
| 26 | Miyu Yunoki | 46.98 | 26 | 46.98 | — | — |
| 27 | Sakurako Tanabe | 46.50 | 27 | 46.50 | — | — |
| 28 | Aiko Motoe | 45.99 | 28 | 45.99 | — | — |
| 29 | Saki Isomura | 45.19 | 29 | 45.19 | — | — |
| 30 | Rei Yoshimoto | 42.02 | 30 | 42.02 | — | — |

#### Junior ice dance

| Rank | Name | Total points | RD | RD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Nao Kida / Masaya Morita | 131.06 | 1 | 52.44 | 1 | 78.62 |
| 2 | Ayano Sasaki / Atsuhiko Tamura | 122.99 | 2 | 48.33 | 2 | 74.66 |
| 3 | Kaho Yamashita / Yuto Nagata | 106.40 | 3 | 39.22 | 3 | 67.18 |
| 4 | Midori Fujiki / Seiya Shimokawa | 95.69 | 4 | 36.41 | 4 | 59.28 |
| 5 | Haruhi Komatsu / Eisuke Kumano | 84.26 | 5 | 33.95 | 5 | 50.31 |

## International team selections
### Four Continents Championships

The 2022 Four Continents Championships were held in Tallinn, Estonia from January 18–23, 2022.
| | Men | Women | Ice dance |
| 1 | Kao Miura | Rino Matsuike | Kana Muramoto / Daisuke Takahashi |
| 2 | Sena Miyake | Mai Mihara | |
| 3 | Kazuki Tomono | Satoko Miyahara (withdrew) | |
| 1st alt. | Shun Sato | Yuhana Yokoi (called up) | Rikako Fukase / Eichu Cho |
| 2nd alt. | Sōta Yamamoto | Mako Yamashita | |
| 3rd alt. | Koshiro Shimada | | |

### Winter Olympics

The 2022 Winter Olympics were held in Beijing, China from February 4–20, 2022.
| | Men | Women | Pairs | Ice dance |
| 1 | Yuzuru Hanyu | Kaori Sakamoto | Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara | Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto |
| 2 | Shoma Uno | Wakaba Higuchi | | |
| 3 | Yuma Kagiyama | Mana Kawabe | | |
| 1st alt. | Kao Miura | Mai Mihara | | Kana Muramoto / Daisuke Takahashi |
| 2nd alt. | Kazuki Tomono | Satoko Miyahara | | |
| 3rd alt. | Sena Miyake | Rino Matsuike | | |

### World Junior Championships

Commonly referred to as "Junior Worlds", the 2022 World Junior Championships will be held in Tallinn, Estonia from April 13-17, 2022.
| | Men | Women | Ice dance |
| 1 | Kao Miura | Rion Sumiyoshi | Nao Kida / Masaya Morita |
| 2 | Shun Sato (withdrew) | Rinka Watanabe | |
| 3 | Tatsuya Tsuboi | | |
| 1st alt. | Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda (called up) | Rino Matsuike | |
| 2nd alt. | Nozomu Yoshioka | Hana Yoshida | |

### World Championships

The 2022 World Championships were held in Montpellier, France from March 21–27, 2022.
| | Men | Women | Pairs | Ice dance |
| 1 | Yuzuru Hanyu (withdrew) | Kaori Sakamoto | Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara | Kana Muramoto / Daisuke Takahashi |
| 2 | Shoma Uno | Wakaba Higuchi | | |
| 3 | Yuma Kagiyama | Mana Kawabe | | |
| 1st alt. | Kao Miura | Mai Mihara | | Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto |
| 2nd alt. | Kazuki Tomono (called up) | Satoko Miyahara | | |
| 3rd alt. | Sena Miyake | Rino Matsuike | | |