Miss Japan

{{Infobox organization

|name = Miss Japan
ミスジャパン

|motto =

|formation = 1952–1995; 2019

|type = Beauty pageant

|headquarters = Tokyo

|location = Japan

|membership = {{Ubl|Miss Universe|(1952–1995)|Miss Supranational|(2010–present)}}

|language = Japanese

|leader_title = Senior Directors

|leader_name = {{Hlist|Akihiro Yoshida|Takako Hashimura|Ichiro Tahara|Takahide Kitai}}

|parent_organization = {{Ubl|Yoshinaga|(1952–1995);|HDR Corporation (2019–present)}}

|budget =

|website = [http://www.missjapan.org/ Official website]

}}

Miss Japan ({{langx|ja|ミスジャパン}}) is a national beauty pageant in Japan. The pageant first ran from 1952 to 1995 and was led by Yoshinaga (Japanese-American Press). In 2019, the Miss Japan pageant returned with Akihiro Yoshida, Takako Hashimura, Ichiro Tahara and Takahide Kitai, from the HDR Corporation, all as senior directors.{{Cite web|url=http://www.missjapan.org/partner|title=2019ミス・ジャパンパートナー企業及び評議員|website=2020 Miss Japan ミス・ジャパン公式|language=ja-JP|access-date=2020-01-07}} The HDR Corporation started the new Miss Japan competition after they lost the franchises for both Miss Universe and Miss Earth.{{Cite web|last=聯合新聞網|date=2020-10-02|title=2020 Miss Japan｜21歲日本最美護士學生奪冠曾自製口罩抗疫|url=https://www.hk01.com/世界專題/530985/2020-miss-japan-21歲日本最美護士學生奪冠-曾自製口罩抗疫|access-date=2021-08-12|website=香港01|language=zh-HK}}{{Cite web|last=沉默是柑|date=2020-09-30|title=日本「2020 Miss Japan」35縣派女生參賽網民大讚冠軍驚為天人｜今日日本|url=https://www.hk01.com/開罐/530322/日本-2020-miss-japan-35縣派女生參賽-網民大讚冠軍驚為天人|access-date=2021-08-12|website=香港01|language=zh-HK}}

The HDR Corporation also operates the Miss and Mister Supranational contest.{{Cite web|url=http://www.missjapan.org/|title=2020 Miss Japan ミス・ジャパン公式|website=2020 Miss Japan ミス・ジャパン公式|language=ja-JP|access-date=2020-01-07}}

Titleholders

class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center" !width="60" style="background-color:#787878;color:#FFFFFF;"\|Year !width="250" style="background-color:#787878;color:#FFFFFF;"\|Miss Japan !width="250" style="background-color:#787878;color:#FFFFFF;"\|Japanese Name !width="180" style="background-color:#787878;color:#FFFFFF;"\|Prefecture
1952	Himeko Kojima	小島日女子	Osaka
1953	Kinuko Ito	伊東絹子	Tokyo
1954	Mieko Kondo	近藤美恵子	Aichi
1955	Keiko Takahashi	高橋敬緯子	Tokyo
1956	Yoshie Baba	馬場祥江	Fukushima
1957	Kyoko Otani	大谷享子	Tokyo
1958	Tomoko Moritake	森武知子	Fukuoka
1959	Akiko Kojima{{Cite web\|title=Herald-Journal - Google News Archive Search\|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1876&dat=19590725&id=b3osAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QMwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1846,3235023&hl=en\|website=news.google.com\|access-date=2020-05-18}}	児島明子	Tokyo
1960	Yayoi Furuno	古野弥生	Fukuoka
1961	Akemi Toyama	遠山明美	Tokyo
1962	Kazuko Hirano	平野和子	Kyoto
1963	Noriko Ando	安藤矩子	Miyagi
1964	Chizuko Matsumoto	松本千都子	Hyōgo
1965	Mari Katayama	片山まり	Tokyo
1966	Atsumi Ikeno	池野温美	Osaka
1967	Kayoko Fujikawa	藤川香代子	Osaka
1968	Yasuyo Iino	飯野矢住代	Tokyo
1969	Kikuyo Osuka	大須賀喜久代	Aichi
1970	Jun Shimada{{Cite web\|title=The Free Lance-Star - Google News Archive Search\|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19700822&id=gOtNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=h4oDAAAAIBAJ&pg=931,5531863\|website=news.google.com\|access-date=2020-05-23}}	島田純	Tokyo
1971	Shigeko Taketomi	武富茂子	Tokyo
1972	Harumi Maeda	前田晴美	Tokyo
1973	Miyoko Sometani	染谷美代子	Ibaraki
1974	Eriko Tsuboi	坪井江里子	Tokyo
1975	Sachiko Nakayama	中山幸子	Hokkaido
1976	Miyako Iwakuni	岩国美弥子	Osaka
1977	Kyoko Sato	佐藤恭子	Tokyo
1978	Hisako Manda	萬田久子	Osaka
1979	Yurika Kuroda	黒田百合香	Tokyo
1980	Hisae Hiyama	檜山久恵	Tokyo
1981	Mineko Orisaku	織作峰子	Kyoto
1982	Eri Okuwaki	奥脇絵里	Tokyo
1983	Yuko Yamaguchi	山口遊子	Osaka
1984	Megumi Niiyama	新山恵	Tokyo
1985	Hatsumi Furusawa	古沢初美	Osaka
1986	Hiroko Esaki	江崎普子	Gifu
1987	Hiroe Namba	難波央江	Okayama
1988	Mizuho Sakaguchi	坂口美津穂	Hyōgo
1989	Eri Tashiro	田代絵里	Hokkaido
1990	Hiroko Miyoshi	三好浩子	Ehime
1991	Atsuko Yamamoto	山本亜津子	Osaka
1992	Akiko Ando	安藤晃子	Aichi
1993	Yukiko Shiki	志岐幸子	Hyōgo
1994	Chiaki Kawando	川人千明	Kagawa
1995	Narumi Saeki	佐伯成美	Saitama
colspan=4 {{n/a\|No Miss Japan from 1996 to 2018}}
2019	Honoka Tsuchiya{{Cite web\|title=「2019 MISS JAPAN」選美東京代表公布土屋太鳳胞姊土屋炎伽獲獎 -- 上報 / 生活\|url=https://www.upmedia.mg/news_info.php?SerialNo=64613\|website=Up Media\|language=chinese\|access-date=2020-05-23}}	土屋炎伽	Tokyo
2020	Senna Ogawa	小川千奈	Iwate

=Winners by prefectures=

class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 95%; "

!Prefecture

!Titles

!Years

Tokyo

|style="text-align:center;" | 17

|1953, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984, 2019

Osaka

|style="text-align:center;" | 8

|1952, 1966, 1967, 1976, 1978, 1983, 1985, 1991

Aichi

|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | 3

|1954, 1969, 1992

Hyōgo

|1964, 1988, 1993

Fukuoka

|rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" | 2

|1958, 1960

Hokkaido

|1975, 1989

Kyoto

|1962, 1981

Ehime

|rowspan="9" style="text-align:center;" | 1

|1990

Fukushima

|1956

Gifu

|1986

Ibaraki

|1973

Iwate

|2020

Kagawa

|1994

Miyagi

|1963

Okayama

|1987

Saitama

|1995

Miss and Mister Supranational Japan

=Miss Supranational Japan=

{{plainlist|

{{Color box|gold|border=darkgray}} : Declared as Winner
{{Color box|#FFFF66|border=darkgray}} : Ended as runner-up
{{Color box|#FFFF99|border=darkgray}} : Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
{{Color box|#FADADD|border=silver}} : Ended as special awards winner

}}

class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center"

!width="60" style="background-color:#787878;color:#FFFFFF;"|Year

!width="250" style="background-color:#787878;color:#FFFFFF;"|Miss Supranational Japan

!width="250" style="background-color:#787878;color:#FFFFFF;"|Japanese

!width="250" style="background-color:#787878;color:#FFFFFF;"|Represented

!width="200" style="background-color:#787878;color:#FFFFFF;"|Placement

!width="300" style="background-color:#787878;color:#FFFFFF;"|Special Awards

style="background:#FFFF99;"

|2024

|Yuki Sonoda

|園田悠希

|Kagoshima

| Top 25

Top 7 at Miss Talent

style="background-color:#FADADD

|2023

|Mayuko Hanawa{{cite web|title=Miss Supranational Japan 2022 on Mayuko Hanawa Ibarakiasta

|url=https://news-roller.com/finland/miss-supranational-japan-2022-on-mayuko-hanawa-ibarakiasta/|work=news-roller.com|date=24 September 2022}}

|花輪真由子

|Ibaraki

|Unplaced

Top 8 at Miss Talent

style="background-color:#FADADD

|2022

|Rina Okada{{Cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CUSR4T3pfjO/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/instagram/misssupranationaljapan/2671276165400230094 |archive-date=25 December 2021 |url-access=registration|title=Miss Supranational Japan 2021|publisher=Miss Supranational Japan|accessdate=26 September 2021}}{{cbignore}}

|岡田里奈

|Hokkaido

|Unplaced

Top 3 at Miss Talent

style="background:#FFFF99;"

|2021

|Emiri Shimizu

|清水えみり

|Gunma

| Top 24

2020

| colspan=5 {{n/a|Due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, no pageant in 2020}}

2019

|Natsumi Takenaka

|竹中夏美

|Osaka

|Unplaced

2018

|Yurika Nakamoto

|中本ゆりか

|Okinawa

|Unplaced

style="background:#FFFF99;"

|2017

|Yuki Koshikawa

|越川ゆき

|Chiba

| Top 25

style="background:#FFFF99;"

|2016

|Risa Nagashima

|永島理沙

|Gunma

| Top 20

style="background:#FFFF99;"

|2015

|Mieko Takeuchi

|竹内美恵子

|Hyōgo

| Top 20

2014

|Ayaka Wakao

|若尾彩花

|Tokyo

|Unplaced

colspan=6 {{n/a|Did not compete between 2011—2013}}

2010

|Miou Fujinaga

|藤永美桜

|Tokyo

|Unplaced

=Mister Supranational Japan=

{{plainlist|

{{Color box|gold|border=darkgray}} : Declared as Winner
{{Color box|#FFFF66|border=darkgray}} : Ended as runner-up
{{Color box|#FFFACD|border=darkgray}} : Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
{{Color box|#FADADD|border=silver}} : Ended as special awards winner

}}

class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center"

!width="60" style="background-color:#787878;color:#FFFFFF;"|Year

!width="250" style="background-color:#787878;color:#FFFFFF;"|Mister Supranational Japan

!width="250" style="background-color:#787878;color:#FFFFFF;"|Japanese

!width="250" style="background-color:#787878;color:#FFFFFF;"|Represented

!width="200" style="background-color:#787878;color:#FFFFFF;"|Placement

!width="300" style="background-color:#787878;color:#FFFFFF;"|Special Awards

colspan=6 {{n/a|Did not compete between 2020—present}}

style="background-color:#FADADD

| 2019

| Reino Shimamura

| 島村れい乃

| Tokyo

| Unplaced

Top 5 at Mr Talent

2018

| Jiro Matsumoto

| 松本次郎

| Tokyo

| Unplaced

style="background:#FFFF99;"

| 2017

| Takanori Uekusa

| 植草隆則

| Tokyo

| Top 20

style="background:#FFFF99;"

| 2016

| Ricky Wakabayashi{{cite web|url=https://jastrzabpost.pl/newsy/mister-supranational-2016-diego-garcy-kto-to-wiek-zdjecia_445168.html|title=Tak wygląda Mister Supranational 2016! Najprzystojniejszy mężczyzna na ziemi nie pochodzi z Europy|publisher=Jastrazab Post|date=3 December 2016}}

| リッキー若林

| Tokyo

| Top 10