Japan at Miss World

Performance Summary

Total Participations

Crowns

Runner-ups

Semifinalists

Unplaced

Results by Edition

Year	Contestant	City	Placement
1956	Midoriko Tokura	London	3rd runner-up
1957	Muneko Yorifuji	London	4th runner-up
1958	Hisako Okuse	London	Unplaced
1959	Chieko Ichinose	London	Unplaced
1960	Eiko Murai	London	Unplaced
1961	Chie Murakami	London	Semifinalist
1962	Teruko Ikeda	London	4th runner-up
1963	Miyako Harada	London	Unplaced
1964	Yoshiko Nakatani	London	Unplaced
1965	Yuko Oguchi	London	Semifinalist
1966	Harumi Kobayashi	London	Unplaced
1967	Chikako Sotoyama	London	Unplaced
1968	Ryoko Miyoshi	London	Unplaced
1969	Emiko Karashima	London	Unplaced
1970	Hisayo Nakamura	London	Unplaced
1971	Emiko Ikeda	London	Unplaced
1972	Akiko Kajitani	London	Unplaced
1973	Keiko Matsunaga	London	Unplaced
1974	Chikako Shima	London	Semifinalist
1975	Chiharu Fujiwara	London	Unplaced
1976	Noriko Asakuno	London	Unplaced
1977	Chizuru Shigemura	London	Unplaced
1978	Yuko Yamaguchi	London	Unplaced
1979	Motomi Hibino	London	Unplaced
1980	Kanako Ito	London	Unplaced
1981	Naomi Kishi	London	Semifinalist
1982	Mutsuko Kikuchi	London	Unplaced
1983	Mie Nakahara	London	Unplaced
1984	Ayako Ohsone	London	Unplaced
1985	Haruko Sugimoto	London	Unplaced
1986	Mutsumi Sugimura	London	Unplaced
1987	Keiko Unno	London	Unplaced
1988	Kazumi Sakikubo	London	Unplaced
1989	Kaori Muto	Hong Kong	Unplaced
1990	Tomoko Iwasaki	London	Unplaced
1991	Junko Tsuda	Atlanta	Unplaced
1992	Kaoru Kikuchi	Sun City	Unplaced
1993	Yoko Miyasaka	Sun City	Unplaced
1994	Shinobu Sushida	Sun City	Unplaced
1995	Mari Kubo	Sun City	Unplaced
1996	Miyuki Fujii	Bengaluru	Unplaced
1997	Shinobu Saraie	Baie Lazare	Unplaced
1998	Rie Mochizuki	Mahé	Unplaced
1999	Aya Mitsubori	London	Unplaced
2000	Mariko Sugai	London	Unplaced
2001	Yuka Humano	Sun City	Unplaced
2002	Yuko Nabeta	London	Unplaced
2003	Kaoru Nishide	Sanya	Unplaced
2004	Minako Goto	Sanya	Unplaced
2005	Erina Shinohara	Sanya	Unplaced
2006	Kazuha Kondo	Warsaw	Unplaced
2007	Lui Watanabe	Sanya	Unplaced
2008	Mizuki Kubodera	Johannesburg	Unplaced
2009	Eruza Sasaki	Johannesburg	Semifinalist
2010	Hiroko Matsunaga	Sanya	Unplaced
2011	Midori Tanaka	London	Quarterfinalist
2012	Nozomi Igarashi	Ordos City	Unplaced
2013	Michiko Tanaka	South Kuta	Unplaced
2014	Hikaru Kawai	London	Unplaced
2015	Chika Nakagawa	Sanya	Unplaced
2016	Priyanka Yoshikawa	Oxon Hill, Maryland	Quarterfinalist
2017	Haruka Yamashita	Sanya	Semifinalist
2018	Kanako Date	Sanya	Quarterfinalist
2019	Marika Sera	London	Unplaced
2021	Tamaki Hoshi	San Juan	Unplaced
2023	Kana Yamaguchi	Mumbai	Unplaced
2025	Kiana Tomita	Hyderabad	Unplaced