Japan Figure Skating Championships
Recurring figure skating competition
The Japan Figure Skating Championships (Japanese: 全日本フィギュアスケート選手権) are an annual figure skating competition organised by the Japan Skating Federation (Japanese: 日本スケート連盟) to crown the national champions of Japan. Medals are awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance at the senior level, although not every discipline is held every year due to a lack of participants. Junior-level skaters compete at the Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships. Nobuo Satō currently holds the record for winning the most Japan Championship titles in men's singles (with ten), while Midori Ito holds the record in women's singles (with nine). Narumi Takahashi and Ryuichi Kihara are tied for winning the most championship titles in pair skating (with six each), and while two of those titles were won as partners with each other, the others were won with different partners. Chris Reed holds the record in ice dance (with ten), although those were also won with different partners.
History
The Japanese Skating Association was formed by figure skating enthusiasts in the autumn of 1920. In the beginning, figure skating in Japan was dominated by men, as very few Japanese women skated. The first figure skating competition was planned to be held in February 1921 in Suwa, though because the competition rules were not yet clearly defined, only the speed skating portion of the competition was held. In February 1922, the first figure skating competition was carried out using a translation of the international rules.
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