Miss Grand Japan Explained

Miss Grand Japan ミス・グランド・ジャパン
Type:	Beauty pageant
Founder:	Eriko Yoshii
Headquarters:	Tokyo
Location:	Japan
Membership:	Miss Grand International Miss Cosmo Miss Fabulous International
Language:	Japanese
Parent Organization:	Miss Grand Japan Co., Ltd.
Leader Title:	National Director
Website:	Official website

Miss Grand Japan (Japanese: '''ミス・グランド・ジャパン''') is a national female beauty pageant in Japan, held annually since 2015, aiming to select the country representative for Miss Grand International, which is an annual international beauty pageant promoting World Peace and against all kinds of conflicts.^{[1] [2]} The pageant has been being organized by Miss Grand Japan Co., Ltd., headed by the first Miss Grand Japan, since its establishment.

Since its first participation at Miss Grand International in 2013, Japan holds a record of 5 placements; in 2014 – 2015 and 2018 – 2020, the highest achievement is the fourth runner-up, obtained by Haruka Oda of Saitama in 2018.^[3] Japan also won the best evening gown award and the best national costume award in 2015 and 2019, respectively. In 2022, Eriko Yoshii has received the Golden Award which is the best national director award.

History

Japan has participated in Miss Grand International since 2013. The inaugural edition of Miss Grand Japan was organized by, Miss Grand Japan 2013, acquired the license in 2013. In 2015, The first event was arranged at in Minato, featuring 20 national finalists, of which, a 25-year-old registered nurse from Saitama, Ayaka Tanaka, was named the winner. Since then, the pageant had been held annually in Greater Tokyo Area.

In 2021, the original winner, Sarina Chanana of Chiba, was forced to resign due to some documents problems,^[4] which caused the organizer to cancel all results of such an edition and hold the contest again to determine the replacement. In 2023, Yayoi Machida won the title of Miss Grand Japan.

Edition

Location and date

The following list is the edition detail of the Miss Grand Japan contest, since its inception in 2015.

Year	Edition	Date	Final venue	Host Prefecture	Entrants	Ref.
2015	1st	24 Aug	, Minato	Tokyo	22	^[5]
2016	2nd	11 Sep	Bunka Fashion College, Shibuya			^[6]
2017	3rd	12 Sep	Selene Studio, Minato			^[7]
2018	4th	31 Jul	WOMB Night Club, Shibuya			^[8]
2019	5th	16 July	Yokohama Kannai Hall, Naka-ku	Yokohama	30	^[9]
2020	6th	11 Sep	The Grand Hall Tokyo, Minato	Tokyo	36	^[10]
2021	7th	24 Sep				^[11]
		21 Oct	colspan=2
2022	8th	6 Aug	Yokosuka Arts Theater, Yokosuka	Kanagawa	22	^[12]
2023	9th	16 Jul	, Chiyoda	Tokyo	14	^[13]
2024	10th	20 Jul	New Piea Hall, Minato			^[14]

Competition result

Year	Miss Grand Japan	Runners-up				Ref.
		1st runner-up	2nd runner-up	3rd runner-up	4th runner-up
2013	(Akita)	rowspan=2 colspan=4	^[15]
2014	(Hyōgo)	^[16]
2015	Ayaka Tanaka (Saitama)	(Aichi)	(Chiba)			^[17]
2016	Ayaka Sato (Aichi)	(Okinawa)	Ruri Yoshida (Chiba)
2017	Erika Tsuji (Kyoto)	Arisa Katsumoto (Fukui)	Aya Kitoya (Kumamoto)			^[18]
2018	Haruka Oda (Saitama)	Rie Kuroki (Aichi)	Kanami Tobita (Miyagi)			^[19]
2019	Adeline Minatoya (Nagano)	Daina Itagaki (Fukuoka)	Miho Omori (Kanagawa)	Honomi Sekine (Tochigi)	Hina Taniguchi (Osaka)
2020	(Saga)	Karin Kyotan (Toyama)	Makaha Oguma (Nara)	Arika Wakabayashi (Tokyo)	Yuri Koezuka (Kanagawa)
2021	Sarina Chanana (Chiba)	Kayo Kishikawa (Tokyo)	Karen Ishigaki (Yamagata)			^[20]
	Chika Mizuno (Tokyo)	Rika Kinoshita (Hyōgo)	Yumiko Nishimori (Tokyo)	Yuka Sano (Kyoto)	Fumika Kiryu (Tokyo)	^[21]
2022	Seira Inoue (Tokyo)	Maria Nasu (Yamagata)	Mizuki Takashima (Chiba)	Anna Yamanouchi (Kanagawa)	Yukino Jahana (Okinawa)	^[22]
2023	Yayoi Machida (Tokyo)	Karina Yamada (Chiba)	Yuka Oyama (Nara)	Taeko Yoshida (Osaka)	Yuki Furihata (Chiba)	^[23]
2024	Luma Naomi Shigemitsu (Aichi)	Erika Ishibashi (Japanese Americans)	Anna Hayakawa (Kanagawa)	Sayo Nodake (Hokkaido)	Miho Ogawa (Tochigi)	^[24]
Color keys for the Placements at Miss Grand International Declared as the winner Ended as a runner-up (Top 5): 2018 Ended as a finalist (Top 10): 2015 Ended as a semifinalist (Top 20/21): 2014, 2019,^[25] 2020 Unplaced Did not compete			Note 1. Later Miss Supranational Japan 2015. 2. Also won the Best Evening Gown award in the international contest.^[26] 3. Also won the Best National Costume award in the international contest.^[27]

National finalists

The following list is the national finalists of the Miss Grand Japan pageant, as well as the competition results.

Color keys

Declared as the winner

Ended as a runner-up (Top 5)

Ended as a semifinalist (Top 10,12)

Ended as a semifinalist (Top 20)

Did not participate

Withdraw during the competition

colspan=2 width=150	width=130	2015	width=130	2016	width=130	2017	width=130	2018	width=130	2019	width=130	2020	width=130	2021	width=130	2022	width=130	2023
	Mao Kaneko	Ayako Sato	Rie Kuroki	Mami Ueda	Yoshiko Date	Mika Takase	Cocoa Yoneda	Megumi Oteki
Shiori Suzuki	Platon Mary Eri	Wakana Mizutani
Yurika Watanabe
Shiori Takashima
			Ayumi Sato	Tsukika Kudo	Fuyumi Takahashi		Miki Ando
						Mio Murai
	Nanami Tomita	Ripi Yoshida	Sosori Hashimoto	Honami Nishikawa	Ayaka Sugita	Sarina Chanana	Mizuki Takashima	Yuki Furihata
Natsuki Sato	Kaori Hashimoto	Ami Sugano	Hanano Takeuchi	Minami Sazawa
		Mariko Takahashi	Akane Yoshino
				Arisa Katsumoto			Seika Abe
	Chisa Higuchi	Aimi Tanaka	Daina Itagaki	Aya Kitamura	Nanami Abe	Yuriko Teshima	rowspan=2
Satsuki Nakano
						Yuri Yoshida	Ichiri Hongo
	Ayano Indo	rowspan=3
Emilia Hikari Terashita
Hanae Kou
	Sakura Fujimoto	Mizuki Goromaru	Saki Ogura	rowspan=2
Sakura Yamasaki
	Kazuyo Abe	Mai Miyata	Satomi Matsuda	Sayaka Nishizawa	Yuka Mitsui	Asahi Mori	rowspan=3
Saori Kawahara
Ayako Momiyama
	Miyu Tanaka	Ayana Yoshida	Seina Murakami	Rika Kinoshita	rowspan=5
Seika Michibata
Chiyori Ushigusa
Narumi Yamaguchi
Misaki Matsuo
	Misaki Fujioka
Mizuki Ueda
		Maiko Ishikawa					Ai Kono	Misato Ishizaki
			Aya Shishido				Ruri Takahashi
							Akari Kuzuya
			Lina Tobimatsu				Misuzu Tomari
	Mayu Kubota	Natsuki Suzuki	Miu Takahashi	Haruka Izaki	Miho Omori	Yuri Koezuka	Kano Ochiai	Anna Yamanouchi	rowspan=3
Chirei Nagayasu	Rika Matsuo	Hitomi Kinjo			Ruka Suzuki
	Ruri Chikuma
							Satsuki Yamagata
				Aya Kitoya			Masami Nakayama		Kimi Tsuchiwata
	Chizu Yokoe	Erika Tsuji	Yuka Sano	Yumi Ogawa	rowspan=2
Yui Morie	Annri Hayashi	Rio Ishida
							Karin Matsumoto			Mirei Matsushima
	Hiromi Morita	Kanami Tobita	Airi Asakawa	rowspan=2
Hitimi Sato
							Miyuki Tsukui
						Adeline Minatoya	Yuka Horiuchi	Haruka Takahashi
	Matsunaga Sawako	Risa Nakamura	rowspan=2
Chiharu Obama
			Maria Nakayama				Makaha Oguma	Nana Tokuse		Yuka Oyama
						Masumi Izawa		Kyouka Shimizu	Kanako Kichiraku
							Saeko Oda
							Uno Kuramochi
	Erea Taira	Rina Kimura	Yo Uehara	Yumeno Yamazato	Yukino Jahana	rowspan=2
Manami Sai
	Airi Yamamoto	Rukana Kitajima	Hina Taniguchi	Yui Someya	Yurie Atsumi	Mami Shinoki
Erena Sawada		Hitomi Yoshida	Saki Inoue
Airi Tanaka			Taeko Yoshida
			Tamaki Nishioka
	Ayaka Tanaka	Haruka Oda	Nao Matsumura	Chisa Nakayama	Mayu Yamada	Riko Asanuma	rowspan=3
Aiko Takada	Natsumi Yanase	Kanami Furuya	Yukino Yamadai		Yume Uchida
		Hiroka Yoshizawa
							Ruri Saji
					Sakiko Takada	Natsuki Nakanishi		Maria Takai
							Fuka Ueda
				Yuki Hosoya		Serina Shibayama		Ami Yamanobe
	Honomi Sekine	Narumi Funada	Rua Masubuchi	Yukiko Hayashi
Eri Yaguchi
							Haruna Amemiya
	Seira Inoue	Fuyuki Fujihara	Ayami Yamamoto	Emika Aoki	Rika Otaka	Arika Wakabayashi	Chika Mizuno	Seira Inoue	Erika Ozaki
Maria Kamiyama	Erina Kudo		Yuri Nakagawa	Miyaka Fujita	Kayo Kishikawa	Haruno Nakagawa	Miyuki Nozawa
Uruma Ayame	Nanaka Katakura		Sakurako Yamada	Rika Kawashima	Yumiko Nishimori		Saho Suenaga
Fuyuki Fujiwara			Mina Yoshida	Ben Reika	Fumika Kiryu		Yayoi Machida
Shima Maki					Manami Tanaka		Yurina Ishihara
Natsuka Hirasawa					Aya Oraiqat
Emiri Tsukui					Sakura Tsubuki
Miki Shima					Nami Miura
Airi Miyata					Emiri Matsui
					Misako Kubota
					Marie Ogawa
					Urara Hasegawa
							Yuri Nakamura
							Karin Kyotani		Saki Kobayashi
		Mari Takeuchi					Hiromi Ichinose
	Miku Saito	Karen Ishigaki	Maria Nasu	Ayaho Goto
Momoka Oizumi	Mika Takeda
							Chiharu Tsukui	Asuka Moritawas
						Momoka Nagasaki	Kokoro Yamamoto
International Prefecture
								Naterea Champion
									Megumi Ikegami
Total		22	21	14	17	30	36	46	22	TBA

External links

• • 2015 official website

Notes and References

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