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2004–05 Japan Figure Skating Championships

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The 2004–05 Japan Figure Skating Championships was the 73rd edition of the event. They were held from December 24 through 26, 2004 at the Shinyokohama Stake Center in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. Skaters competed on the senior level in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The competition was used to decide Japan's entries to the 2005 World Championships and the 2005 Four Continents Championships. The entries to the 2005 World Junior Championships were decided at the Japanese Junior Championships.

Competition notes

  • The following skaters placed high enough at Junior Nationals and so were invited to compete at Nationals: Nobunari Oda (first in junior, third in senior), Kazumi Kishimoto (second in junior, fifth in senior), Yasuharu Nanri (third in junior, eighth in senior), and Takahiko Kozuka (fourth in junior, fourth in senior) in men, and Mao Asada (first in junior, second in senior), Mai Asada (second in junior, eighth in senior), Aki Sawada (third in junior, fourth in senior), and Akiko Kitamura (fourth in junior, fifth in senior) in ladies.
  • Silver medalist Mao Asada was not old enough to be sent to the World or the Four Continents Championships.

Results

Men

Rank Name Total points SP FS
1 Takeshi Honda 199.86 2 70.50 1 129.36
2 Kensuke Nakaniwa 191.39 3 63.89 2 127.50
3 Nobunari Oda 185.64 4 60.81 3 124.83
4 Takahiko Kozuka 182.69 1 71.46 6 111.23
5 Kazumi Kishimoto 174.96 7 53.99 4 120.97
6 Daisuke Takahashi 173.67 5 59.83 5 113.84
7 Noriyuki Kanzaki 162.54 9 53.55 7 108.99
8 Yasuharu Nanri 160.88 6 58.18 8 102.70
9 Hirokazu Kobayashi 156.12 8 53.74 9 102.38
10 Shinya Yoshida 148.72 10 51.57 10 97.15
11 Takushi Kuroda 146.71 11 51.18 13 95.53
12 Naofumi Torii 141.94 18 45.62 12 96.32
13 Makoto Nakata 140.71 12 49.37 16 91.34
14 Takao Ogawa 139.04 21 42.45 11 96.59
15 Ken Tanabe 137.76 17 45.65 14 92.11
16 Hideo Umetani 137.50 16 46.10 15 91.40
17 Takeshi Ushigome 127.93 14 46.53 18 81.40
18 Jun Ishigaki 127.53 24 37.29 17 90.24
19 Yusuke Nakagawa 126.91 15 46.50 19 80.41
20 Syunpei Watanabe 125.15 13 47.02 20 78.13
21 Atsushi Usuda 120.57 19 44.78 22 75.79
22 Suguru Nakai 117.86 22 41.98 21 75.88
23 Taku Tamura 115.12 20 43.93 24 71.19
24 Toru Kimura 114.04 23 39.84 23 74.20
Did not advance to free skating
25 Yuichi Fukui 25 34.04
26 Koji Nakaniwa 26 32.86
27 Kengo Shibata 27 30.40
28 Hidenori Kambayashi 28 30.28
29 Kazunari Aoki 29 28.05
WD Ryo Shibata

Ladies

Rank Name Total points SP FS
1 Miki Ando 172.47 3 63.23 1 109.24
2 Mao Asada 166.82 4 60.46 2 106.36
3 Fumie Suguri 166.54 2 65.18 3 101.36
4 Aki Sawada 154.73 6 55.01 5 99.72
5 Akiko Kitamura 147.54 9 47.40 4 100.14
6 Yukari Nakano 147.48 7 49.08 6 98.40
7 Yoshie Onda 145.87 5 58.28 8 87.59
8 Mai Asada 136.77 8 48.17 7 88.60
9 Chika Suguri 126.85 11 44.50 9 82.35
10 Ayumi Miyamoto 118.44 10 44.61 12 73.83
11 Ami Kobayashi 117.08 12 42.94 11 74.14
12 Akiko Suzuki 113.86 13 42.02 13 71.84
13 Yuki Umetani 112.37 20 34.94 10 77.43
14 Haruka Miki 103.64 16 39.38 15 64.26
15 Hiroe Kakisawa 103.46 15 40.18 16 63.28
16 Chisato Shiina 99.90 14 41.51 18 58.39
17 Miki Sone 99.87 22 32.74 14 67.13
18 Kana Kibesaki 99.77 18 38.04 17 61.73
19 Chihoko Tanaka 96.34 17 38.34 19 58.00
20 Sayaka Ishida 93.11 19 35.43 20 57.68
21 Emiko Kato 87.80 23 31.28 21 56.52
22 Nagisa Suwabe 85.45 21 32.79 23 52.66
23 Sachiyo Imaichi 83.43 24 28.42 22 55.01
WD Shizuka Arakawa 1 67.68
Did not advance to free skating
25 Ayako Kaneishi 25 27.98
26 Kayoko Tsuji 26 27.76
27 Yuri Takehisa 27 27.55
28 Haruka Oshima 28 27.14
29 Fumi Hasebe 29 26.81
30 Aya Sumida 30 26.67
31 Takako Kimura 31 26.22
WD Yukina Ota

Pairs

Rank Name Total points SP FS
1 Yuko Kawaguchi / Devin Patrick 126.38 1 45.95 1 80.43

Ice dancing

Rank Name Total points CD OD FD
1 Nozomi Watanabe / Akiyuki Kido 165.03 1 32.49 1 49.07 1 83.47
2 Nakako Tsuzuki / Kenji Miyamoto 147.91 2 28.85 2 42.66 2 76.40
3 Minami Sakacho / Tatsuya Sakacho 115.97 3 24.04 3 32.16 3 59.77
4 Ikuko Chida / Toru Shibata 98.27 4 19.79 4 29.51 4 48.97

Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships

The 2004–05 Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships took place between November 20 and 21, 2004 at the Osaka Pool arena in Osaka.

Men

Rank Name Total points SP FS
1 Nobunari Oda 180.75 4 57.53 1 123.22
2 Kazumi Kishimoto 171.30 2 59.49 2 111.81
3 Yasuharu Nanri 171.21 1 62.25 4 108.96
4 Takahiko Kozuka 169.11 3 58.50 3 110.61
5 Takemochi Ogami 158.81 7 50.01 5 108.80
6 Ryo Shibata 155.79 5 54.67 7 101.12
7 Tatsuki Machida 150.67 8 49.82 8 100.85
8 Kosuke Morinaga 150.05 9 47.61 6 102.44
9 Naoto Saito 149.81 6 51.18 9 98.63
10 Tadayoshi Maekawa 131.49 10 45.04 12 86.45
11 Hirofumi Torii 131.48 17 40.50 10 90.98
12 Takahito Mura 129.72 12 43.14 11 86.58
13 Hayato Odajima 123.56 11 44.39 13 79.17
14 Kunihito Yuasa 119.83 14 42.47 14 77.36
15 Yukihiro Yoshida 115.68 15 41.98 16 73.70
16 Hikaru Sato 111.66 19 36.79 15 74.87
17 Tomoyuki Koriyama 110.64 16 40.53 18 70.11
18 Takumi Suenaga 109.85 13 42.73 21 67.12
19 Takuya Kondo 108.52 18 37.08 17 71.44
20 Junzo Nishigami 104.78 20 36.70 19 68.08
21 Takuya Tamura 101.96 21 34.06 20 67.90
22 Takeru Chiba 94.95 22 31.73 23 63.22
23 Akio Sasaki 94.75 23 31.41 22 63.34
24 Kozuke Nozoe 90.44 24 31.07 24 59.37
Did not advance to free skating
25 Yuya Ishiyama 25 30.57
26 Taketo Omae 26 29.42
27 Kento Nakamura 27 28.92
28 Ryuichi Kihara 28 27.94
WD Tatsuya Kitagaki
WD Atsuki Kunisawa

Ladies

Rank Name Total points SP FS
1 Mao Asada 172.13 1 54.56 1 117.57
2 Mai Asada 147.50 2 52.19 3 95.31
3 Aki Sawada 145.96 3 48.79 2 97.17
4 Akiko Kitamura 138.90 4 44.82 4 94.08
5 Momo Makino 122.40 14 35.85 5 86.55
6 Rumi Suizu 121.43 7 42.03 7 79.40
7 Nana Takeda 119.97 13 37.37 6 82.60
8 Ayako Hagiwara 119.44 5 42.50 8 76.94
9 Mutsumi Takayama 118.15 6 42.10 9 76.05
10 Yuka Ishikawa 108.82 18 35.01 10 73.81
11 Satsuki Muramoto 106.82 10 40.25 11 66.57
12 Emi Hirai 104.81 11 38.81 14 66.00
13 Miri Yoshida 104.42 12 38.03 12 66.39
14 Haruka Inoue 102.71 9 40.41 17 62.30
15 Nanoha Sato 101.64 15 35.64 13 66.00
16 Risa Mochizuki 100.02 8 41.13 18 58.89
17 Shiho Sato 96.93 19 34.05 15 62.88
18 Mari Suzuki 94.19 24 31.48 16 62.71
19 Eri Ishigami 93.49 16 35.31 19 58.18
20 Sayaka Yodo 91.89 17 35.12 21 56.77
21 Hinako Kikuchi 90.82 21 33.45 20 57.37
22 Shoko Ishikawa 87.35 23 32.64 22 54.71
23 Rina Kasama 82.91 20 34.05 23 48.86
24 Asako Yodo 78.36 22 33.08 24 45.28
Did not advance to free skating
25 Yuko Iwaki 25 31.32
26 Midori Suzuki 26 30.87
27 Asato Nakanishi 27 29.55
28 Nagisa Hayashi 28 29.48
29 Misaki Ohara 29 28.44

Ice dancing

Rank Name Total points CD OD FD
1 Rina Sawayama / Taiyo Mizutani 107.59 1 26.12 1 33.56 1 47.91
2 Miki Nakamura / Takahiko Tanba 88.56 2 21.01 2 26.77 2 40.78

International team selections

World Championships

Following the national championships, Honda, Arakawa, and Ando were assigned to the World team. All other places were filled following the 2005 Four Continents Championships, with the highest placing Japanese skater earning the available Worlds spot.

Men Ladies Ice dancing
1 Takeshi Honda Shizuka Arakawa Nozomi Watanabe / Akiyuki Kido
2 Daisuke Takahashi Miki Ando
3 Fumie Suguri

Four Continents Championships

Men Ladies Ice dancing
1 Kensuke Nakaniwa Yoshie Onda Nozomi Watanabe / Akiyuki Kido
2 Daisuke Takahashi Fumie Suguri Nakako Tsuzuki / Kenji Miyamoto
3 Kazumi Kishimoto Yukina Ota
1st Alternate Takahiko Kozuka Yukari Nakano (added)
2nd Alternate Ryo Shibata Mai Asada
3rd Alternate Noriyuki Kanzaki