Japan at major beauty pageants

This is a list of Japan's representatives and their placements at the Big Four international beauty pageants, considered the most important in the world. The country has won two of the four pageants, two Miss universe crowns and one Miss International crown.

Year

Miss Universe

Miss World

Miss International

Miss Earth

2013

Yukiko Takahashi
TBA

2012

Ayako Hara

Nozomi Igarashi

Ikumi Yoshimatsu
WINNER

'Megumi Noda
Top 16''

2011

Maria Kamiyama

Midori Tanaka

Nagomi Murayama

Tomoko Maeda
Top 16

2010

Maiko Itai

Hiroko Matsunaga

Etsuko Kanagae
Top 15

Marina Kishira
Top 8

2009

Emiri Miyasaka

Eruza Sasaki
Top 16

Yuka Nakayama
Top 15

Tomomi Takada

2008

Hiroko Mima
Top 15

Mizuki Kubodera

Kyoko Sugiyama
Top 15

Akemi Fukumura

2007

Riyo Mori
WINNER

Rui Watanabe

Hisako Shirata
Top 15

Ryoko Tominaga

2006

Kurara Chibana
1st Runner-up

Kazuka Kondo

Mami Sakurai
Top 15

Noriko Ohno

2005

Yukari Kuzuya

Erina Shinohara

Naomi Ishizaka
Top 15

Emi Suzuki

2004

Eri Machimoto

Minako Goto

Tamiko Kawahara
Top 15

2003

Miyako Miyazaki
4th Runner-up

Nishide Kaoru

Saeko Matsumi
Top 12

Asami Saito

2002

Mina Chiba

Yuko Nabeta

Hana Urushima
2nd runner-up

2001

Misao Arauchi

Yuka Hamano

Hanako Suzuki
Top 15

Misuzu Hirayama

2000

Mayu Endo

Mariko Sugai

Kanako Shibata
Top 15

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1999

Satomi Ogawa

Aya Mitsubori

Kana Onoda
Top 15

1998

Nana Okumura

Rie Machizuki

Megumi Taira
Top 15

1997

Shinobu Saraie

Sayuri Seki
Top 15

1996

Miyuki Fujii

Akiko Sugano
Top 15

1995

Narumi Saeki

Mari Kubo

Yuka Kondo
Top 15

1994

Chiaki Kawahito

Shinobu Sushida

Tomomi Hanamura
Top 15

1993

Yukiko Shiki

Yoko Miyasaka

Masayo Shibasaki
Top 15

1992

Akiko Ando

Kaoru Kikuchi

1991

Atsuko Yamamoto

Junko Tsuda

1990

Hiroko Miyoshi

Tomoko Iwasaki

1989

Eri Tshiro

Kaori Muto

1988

Mizuho Sakaguchi
3rd Runner-up

Kazumi Sakikubo

1987

Hiroe Namba

Keiko Unno

1986

Hiroko Esaki

Mutsumi Sugimura

1985

Hatsumi Furusawa

Haruko Sugimoto

1984

Mayumi Niiyama

Ayako Ohsone

1983

Yuko Yamaguchi

Mie Nakahara

1982

Eri Okuwaki

Mutsuko Kikuchi

1981

Mineko Orisaku

Naomi Kishi
Top 15

1980

Hisae Hiyama

Kanako Ito

1979

Yurika Kuroda

Motomi Hibino

1978

Hisako Manda

Yuko Yamaguchi

1977

Kyoko Satoh

Chizuru Shigamura

1976

Miyako Iwakuni

Noriko Asakuno

1975

Sachiko Nakayama
Top 12

Chiharu Fujiwara

1974

Eriko Tsuboi

Chikako Shima
6th Runner-up

1973

Miyoko Sometani
Top 12

Keiko Matsunaga

1972

Harumi Maeda
Top 12

Akiko Kajitani

1971

Shigeko Taketomi
Top 12

Emiko Ikeda

1970

Jun Shimada
3rd Runner-up

Hisayo Nakamura

1969

Kikuyo Osuka
4th Runner-up

Emiko Karashima

1968

Yasuyo Iino

Ryoko Miyoshi

1967

Kayoko Fujikawa

Chikako Sotoyama

1966

Atsumi Ikeno

Harumi Kobayashi

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1965

Mari Katayama

Yuko Oguchi
Top 16

1964

Shizuko Matsumoto

Yoshiko Nakatani

1963

Noriko Ando
Top 15

Miyako Harada

1962

Kasuko Hirano

Teruko Ikeda
4th Runner-up

1961

Akemi Toyama

Chie Nurakami
Top 15

1960

Yayoi Furuno
Top 15

Eiko Sakimurai
Top 15

1959

Akiko Kojima
WINNER

Chieko Ichinose

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1958

Tomoko Moritake
Top 15

Hisako Okuse

1957

Kyoko Otani
Top 15

Muneko Yorifuji
4th Runner-up

1956

Yoshie Baba

Midoriki Tokura
3rd Runner-up

1955

Keiko Takahashi
4th Runner-up

1954

Mieko Kondo

1953

Kinuko Ito
2nd Runner-up

1952

Himeko Kojima

1951

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× Did not compete
↑ No pageant held

Pageant

Placements

Best result

Miss Universe

18

Winner (1959, 2007)

Miss World

9

3rd Runner-up (1956)

Miss International

19

Winner (2012)

Miss Earth

3

Top 8 (2010)

References

See also

  • Miss Universe Japan
  • Miss Earth Japan