Japan at Miss Universe

Performance Summary

Total Participations

Crowns

Runner-ups

Semifinalists

Unplaced

Results by Edition

Year	Contestant	City	Placement
1952	Himeko Kojima	Long Beach	Unplaced
1953	Kinuko Ito	Long Beach	2nd runner-up
1954	Mieko Kondo	Long Beach	Unplaced
1955	Keiko Takahashi	Long Beach	4th runner-up
1956	Yoshie Baba	Long Beach	Unplaced
1957	Kyoko Otani	Long Beach	Semifinalist
1958	Tomoko Moritake	Long Beach	Semifinalist
1959	Akiko Kojima	Long Beach	Winner
1960	Yayoi Furuno	Miami Beach	Semifinalist
1961	Akemi Toyama	Miami Beach	Unplaced
1962	Kazuko Hirano	Miami Beach	Unplaced
1963	Noriko Ando	Miami Beach	Semifinalist
1964	Chizuko Matsumoto	Miami Beach	Unplaced
1965	Mari Katayama	Miami Beach	Unplaced
1966	Atsumi Ikeno	Miami Beach	Unplaced
1967	Kayoko Fujikawa	Miami Beach	Unplaced
1968	Yasuyo Iino	Miami Beach	Unplaced
1969	Kikuyo Osuka	Miami Beach	4th runner-up
1970	Jun Shimada	Miami Beach	3rd runner-up
1971	Shigeko Taketomi	Miami Beach	Semifinalist
1972	Harumi Maeda	Dorado	Semifinalist
1973	Miyoko Sometani	Athens	Semifinalist
1974	Eriko Tsuboi	Malate	Unplaced
1975	Sachiko Nakayama	San Salvador	Semifinalist
1976	Miyako Iwakuni	Causeway Bay	Unplaced
1977	Kyoko Sato	Santo Domingo	Unplaced
1978	Hisako Manda	Acapulco	Unplaced
1979	Yurika Kuroda	Perth	Unplaced
1980	Hisae Hiyama	Seoul	Unplaced
1981	Mineko Orisaku	New York City	Unplaced
1982	Eri Okuwaki	Lima	Unplaced
1983	Yuko Yamaguchi	St. Louis	Unplaced
1984	Megumi Niiyama	Miami	Unplaced
1985	Hatsumi Furusawa	Miami	Unplaced
1986	Hiroko Esaki	Panama City	Unplaced
1987	Hiroe Namba	Singapore	Unplaced
1988	Mizuho Sakaguchi	Taipei	3rd runner-up
1989	Eri Tashiro	Cancún	Unplaced
1990	Hiroko Miyoshi	Los Angeles	Unplaced
1991	Atsuko Yamamoto	Las Vegas	Unplaced
1992	Akiko Ando	Bangkok	Unplaced
1993	Yukiko Shiki	Mexico City	Unplaced
1994	Chiaki Kawahito	Pasay	Unplaced
1995	Narumi Saeki	Windhoek	Unplaced
1998	Nana Okumura	Honolulu	Unplaced
1999	Satomi Ogawa	Chaguaramas	Unplaced
2000	Mayu Endo	Nicosia	Unplaced
2001	Misao Arauchi	Bayamón	Unplaced
2002	Mina Chiba	San Juan	Unplaced
2003	Miyako Miyazaki	Panama City	4th runner-up
2004	Eri Machimoto	Quito	Unplaced
2005	Yukari Kuzuya	Muang Thong Thani	Unplaced
2006	Kurara Chibana	Los Angeles	1st runner-up
2007	Riyo Mori	Mexico City	Winner
2008	Hiroko Mima	Nha Trang	Semifinalist
2009	Emiri Miyasaka	Atlantis Paradise Island	Unplaced
2010	Maiko Itai	Las Vegas	Unplaced
2011	Maria Kamiyama	São Paulo	Unplaced
2012	Ayako Hara	Las Vegas	Unplaced
2013	Yukimi Matsuo	Krasnogorsk	Unplaced
2014	Keiko Tsuji	University Park	Unplaced
2015	Ariana Miyamoto	Las Vegas	Semifinalist
2016	Sari Nakazawa	Pasay	Unplaced
2017	Momoko Abe	Las Vegas	Unplaced
2018	Yuumi Kato	Muang Thong Thani	Unplaced
2019	Ako Kamo	Atlanta	Unplaced
2020	Aisha Harumi Tochigi	Hollywood	Unplaced
2021	Juri Watanabe	Eilat	Semifinalist
2022	Marybelen Sakamoto	New Orleans	Unplaced
2023	Rio Miyazaki	San Salvador	Unplaced
2024	Kaya Chakrabortty	Mexico City	Quarterfinalist
2025	Kaori Hashimoto	Pak Kret	Quarterfinalist