The 5th Asian Winter Games took place from February 1 to 8, 2003 in Aomori Prefecture, Japan.
Anna Ohmiya is a Japanese curler from Sapporo, Hokkaido. She is the second on the FORTIUS curling team, which won the Japan Curling Championships in both 2015 and 2021. She also won the national championship in 2008, 2009 and 2010 as a member of Team Aomori. She competed for Japan at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, placing eighth. At the international level, she has represented Japan at four World Women's Curling Championship and six Pacific-Asia Curling Championships in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014 and 2021, winning the gold medal in 2021.
The Fukuoka International Cross Country is an annual cross country running competition which takes place in Fukuoka, Japan in either late February or Early March. It is one of the IAAF permit meetings which serve as qualifying events for the IAAF World Cross Country Championships.
Daisuke Harada is a retired Japanese professional wrestler, currently signed to Pro Wrestling Noah. He’s a four-time GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion and a six-time GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion.
Mizuho Sakaguchi is a Japanese football player. She plays for Omiya Ardija Ventus in the WE League. She also plays for the Japan national team.
Kaho Onodera is a Japanese curler from Sapporo, Hokkaido. She is the second on the FORTIUS curling team, which won the Japan Curling Championships in both 2015 and 2021. At the international level, she has represented Japan at three World Women's Curling Championship and three Pacific-Asia Curling Championships in 2013, 2014 and 2021, winning the gold medal in 2021.
Yūki Ishikawa is a Japanese male professional volleyball player from Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture.
Sayaka Yoshimura is a Japanese curler from Sapporo, Hokkaido. She is the skip of the FORTIUS curling team, which won the Japan Curling Championships in both 2015 and 2021. At the international level, she has represented Japan twice at the World Women's Curling Championship and two Pacific-Asia Curling Championships in 2014 and 2021, winning the gold medal in 2021.
Chiaki Matsumura is a Japanese curler from Nagano. She was a longtime member of the Chubu Electric Power curling team from 2012 to 2023. With the team, she won five Japan Curling Championships in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017 and 2019. At the international level, she has represented Japan three times at the World Women's Curling Championship and three times at the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, winning a silver medal in both 2012 and 2019.
Tori Koana is a Japanese curler. She was the skip of Team Fujikyu.
Seina Nakajima is a Japanese curler from Nagano. She is the third on the Chubu Electric Power curling team, which won the Japan Curling Championships in both 2017 and 2019. At the international level, she has represented Japan twice at the World Women's Curling Championship and the 2019 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, where she won a silver medal.
Ikue Kitazawa is a Japanese curler from Saku, Nagano. She is the skip of the Chubu Electric Power curling team, which won the Japan Curling Championships in both 2017 and 2019. At the international level, she has represented Japan twice at the World Women's Curling Championship and the 2019 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, where she won a silver medal.
The 2019–20 curling season began in June 2019 and was scheduled to end in May 2020. However, the coronavirus pandemic declared in March 2020 resulted in the cancellation of events and the premature ending of the season.
Hasumi Ishigooka is a Japanese curler from Nagano. She is the skip of the Chubu Electric Power curling team, which won the Japan Curling Championships in both 2017 and 2019. At the international level, she has represented Japan twice at the World Women's Curling Championship and the 2019 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, where she won a silver medal.
The 2020 Japan Curling Championships, or the 37th Zen-Noh Japan Curling Championships, the Japanese national men's and women's curling championships, were held from February 8 to 16 in 2020 at the Karuizawa Ice Park in Karuizawa, Nagano. These championships were organized by the Japan Curling Association (JCA), and sponsored primarily by Zen-Noh. The women's winner was to represent Japan at the 2020 World Women's Curling Championship, but the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tomohiro Ogawa is a Japanese male volleyball player from Yokohama city in Kanagawa Prefecture. He plays in V.League Division 1 for Wolf Dogs Nagoya and Japan men's national volleyball team.
Ayami Ito is a Japanese curler from Sapporo. She is the lead on the Hokkaido Bank curling team, which is skipped by Momoha Tabata. At the international level, she represented Japan at the 2021 World Women's Curling Championship.
The 2022 All Japan High School Women's Soccer Tournament marks the 31st edition of the referred annually contested women's cup for High Schools over Japan. The tournament is contested by 32 high schools in a knockout-stage format. The final will be played one day prior to the men's final, on 8 January 2023, at the Noevir Stadium Kobe. The Kamimura Gakuen High School are the defending champions, winning the last championship by 3–0 against the Hinomoto Gakuen High School.
The 2023–24 curling season began in June 2023 and will end in May 2024.
The Ice Gold Cup is an annual tournament on the men's World Curling Tour. It is held annually in May at Curlplex Obihiro in Obihiro, Japan.
I.C.E. (Junpei Kanda, Naoki Iwanaga, Shota Iino, Shotaro Hashimoto)
Bansei Curling Club
NS (Hiromitsu Kuriyama, Ryo Kawanishi, Katsuhito Sumi, Satoshi Koizumi)
Maple Leafs (Satoru Tsukamoto, Suguru Tsukamoto, Nobuhito Kasahara, Manabu Aoki)
Team KON (Masaki Fujimura, Yuuki Ogasawara, Chihiro Kon (skip), Tetsusei Yamaguchi)
Hot Shot ! (Kotaro Noguchi, Yuto Kamada, Hiroshi Kato, Yuuki Yoshimura)