2004–2005 Japan Figure Skating Championships

The 2004–05 Japan Figure Skating Championships was the Japan Figure Skating Championships of the 2004–05 season. They were the 73rd Japan Championships to be held. They were held at the Shinyokohama Stake Center in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture from December 24 through 26, 2004. 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.

Skaters competed on the senior level in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

Competition notes

The following skaters placed high enough at Junior Nationals and so were invited to compete at Nationals: Nobunari Oda (first in juniors, third in seniors), Kazumi Kishimoto (second in juniors, fifth in seniors), Yasuharu Nanri (third in juniors, eighth in seniors), and Takahiko Kozuka (fourth in juniors, fourth in seniors) in men, and Mao Asada (first in juniors, second in seniors), Mai Asada (second in juniors, eighth in seniors), Aki Sawada (third in juniors, fourth in seniors), and Akiko Kitamura (fourth in juniors, fifth in seniors) 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

Pair skating

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

External links

2004–05 Japan Figure Skating Championships results (in Japanese)
2004–05 Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships results (in Japanese)

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