Japanese National Championships

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Japan
National Championships
Years held: 1996 to 2011
2017 & 2018
Two titles: Katsuhiro Mori

National Championship tournaments were held annually in Japan from 1996 through to 2011, then again in 2017 and 2018.[1][2] The winner of these events was named Japanese Champion. That player also headed the national team at that years' World Championship, with the runner-up and semifinalists making up the rest of the team.

Between 2012 and 2016 the title Japanese Champion was instead given to the Japanese player with the highest amount of Pro Points in a particular Pro Tour season.

National Championships (1996 to 2011)

National team members for the World Championships, where known, are in marked in bold.

  • Between 1996 and 2000, and in 2007, teams had 4 players.[3]
  • Between 2001 and 2006, and 2008 to 2011 teams, consisted of three players. The two losing semi-finalists would play off for 3rd place. 4th place still received an invitation as an Alternate. (Italicised)

Invitations could be formally declined and would be offered in turn to the next player in the standings.

Note: An asterisk (*) after a player's name indicates their exact placing is unknown.

1996 National Championship

Location: Tokyo
Date: June 13-16, 1996
Formats: Standard and Sealed Deck
Attendance:

1. JPN flag Toshiki Tsukamoto
2. JPN flag Satoshi Nakamura
3. JPN flag Yoshiyuki Tsuruta
4. JPN flag Ryutaro Yamaguchi
5. JPN flag
6. JPN flag
7. JPN flag
8. JPN flag

Sources[4][5]  

1997 National Championship

Location: Tokyo
Date: July 5-6, 1997
Formats: Standard and Rochester Draft
Attendance:

1. JPN flag Komiya Tadayoshi
2. JPN flag Toshiki Tsukamoto
3. JPN flag Goro Matsuo
4. JPN flag Osanobu Funakoshi
5. JPN flag Koichiro Maki
6. JPN flag Satoshi Nakamura
7. JPN flag Itaru Ishida
8. JPN flag Ryo Yamashita

Sources[6][7]  

1998 National Championship

Location: Tokyo
Date: July 4-5, 1998
Formats: Standard and Rochester Draft
Attendance:

1. JPN flag Tsukamoto Toshiki
2. JPN flag Ishida Itaru
3. JPN flag Ishibashi Masashi
4. JPN flag Fujita Tuyoshi
5. JPN flag Koichiro Maki
6. JPN flag Seizou Koenuma
7. JPN flag Goro Matsuo
8. JPN flag Kouichi Toba

Sources[8][9]  

1999 National Championship

Location: Tokyo
Date: June 12-13, 1999
Formats: Standard and Rochester Draft
Attendance:

1. JPN flag Masayuki Higashino
2. JPN flag Kuroda Masashiro
3. JPN flag Taguchi Yuuichi
4. JPN flag Fujita Ken’ichi
5. JPN flag Ryohei Ohashi
6. JPN flag Masami Ibamoto
7. JPN flag Masashi Ishibashi
8. JPN flag Reiji Andou

Sources[10][11]  

2000 National Championship

Location: Tokyo
Date: May 27-28, 2000
Formats: Standard and Booster Draft
Attendance:

1. JPN flag Douyama Tsuyoshi
2. JPN flag Tadayoshi Komiya
3. JPN flag Michihisa Onoda
4. JPN flag Ikeda Tsuyoshi
5. JPN flag Kiyoshi Sasanuma*
6. JPN flag Hiroshi Harada*
7. JPN flag Katsuhiro Mori*
8. JPN flag Koji Nose*

Sources[12][6]  

2001 National Championship

Location: Tokyo
Date: June 2-3 2001
Formats: Standard and Rochester Draft
Attendance: 159

1. JPN flag Goro Matsuo
2. JPN flag Min-Su Kim
3. JPN flag Masahiko Morita
4. JPN flag Masaya Mori
5. JPN flag Yudai Yamasaki
6. JPN flag Takamasa Fukata
7. JPN flag Yukihiro Usami
8. JPN flag Masashiro Kuroda

Sources[13][14][15][16]  

2002 National Championship

Location: Tokyo
Date: May 31-June 2, 2002
Formats: Standard and Booster Draft
Attendance: 192

1. JPN flag Kazuhiko Mitsuya
2. JPN flag Michihisa Onoda
3. JPN flag Yuusuke Sasaki
4. JPN flag Yuuki Murakami
5. JPN flag Hiroki Okamoto
6. JPN flag Masayuki Higashino
7. JPN flag Yoshitaka Nakano
8. JPN flag Koutarou Ootsuka

Sources[15][17][18][19]  

2003 National Championship

Location: Tokyo
Date: June 20-22, 2003
Formats: Standard and Rochester Draft
Attendance: 167

1. JPN flag Koutarou Ootsuka
2. JPN flag Osamu Fujita
3. JPN flag Tooru Maegawa
4. JPN flag Hisaya Tanaka
5. JPN flag Youhei Yamamoto
6. JPN flag Nao Atsuta
7. JPN flag Kazumasa Shiki
8. JPN flag Makihito Mihara

Sources[15][20][21][22][23][24][25]  

2004 National Championship

Location: Osaka
Date: June 11-13, 2004
Formats: Standard and Booster Draft
Attendance: 169

1. JPN flag Tsuyoshi Fujita
2. JPN flag Kenji Tsumura
3. JPN flag Shunsuke Kamei
4. JPN flag Shuhei Nakamura
5. JPN flag Yoshitaka Nakano
6. JPN flag Tomohiro Yokosuka
7. JPN flag Makihito Mihara
8. JPN flag Teruya Kakumae

Sources[15][26][27][28][29]  

2005 National Championship

Location: Yokohama
Date: September 2-4, 2005
Formats: Standard and Booster Draft
Attendance: 183

1. JPN flag Takuma Morofuji
2. JPN flag Jun'ya Iyanaga
3. JPN flag Masashi Oiso
4. JPN flag Ichirou Shimura
5. JPN flag Makihito Mihara
6. JPN flag Jun Nobushita
7. JPN flag Kazuhiko Mitsuya
8. JPN flag Yuuta Hirosawa

Sources[30][31][32][33]  

2006 National Championship

Location: Tokyo
Date: August 25-27, 2006
Formats: Standard and Booster Draft
Attendance: 153

1. JPN flag Katsuhiro Mori
2. JPN flag Shouhei Yamamoto
3. JPN flag Hidenori Katayama
4. JPN flag Ken Ishimaru
5. JPN flag Takahiro Suzuki
6. JPN flag Naoki Shimizu
7. JPN flag Shingou Kurihara
8. JPN flag Tomoharu Saito

Sources[34][35][36][37]  

2007 National Championship

Location: Tokyo
Date: August 31-September 2, 2007
Formats: Standard and Booster Draft
Attendance: 182

1. JPN flag Masaya Kitayama
2. JPN flag Ren Ishikawa
3. JPN flag Takashi Akiyama
4. JPN flag Makoto Nagashima
5. JPN flag Shuu Komuro
6. JPN flag Naoki Nakada
7. JPN flag Yuta Takahashi
8. JPN flag Kazuya Mitamura

Sources[38][39][40][41]  

2008 National Championship

Location: Yokohama
Date: September 19-21, 2008
Formats: Standard and Booster Draft
Attendance: 156

1. JPN flag Masashi Oiso
2. JPN flag Takakuwa Akihiro
3. JPN flag Watanabe Yuuya
4. JPN flag Kurihara Shingou
5. JPN flag Makihito Mihara
6. JPN flag Yuta Takahashi
7. JPN flag Koutarou Senba
8. JPN flag Shouhei Yamamoto

Sources[42][43][15][44][45][46][47]  

2009 National Championship

Location: Fukuyama
Date: July 18-20, 2009
Formats: Standard and Booster Draft
Attendance: 158

1. JPN flag Shuhei Nakamura
2. JPN flag Yuuya Watanabe
3. JPN flag Yuma Shiota
4. JPN flag Kenji Tsumura
5. JPN flag Naoki Sakaguchi
6. JPN flag Tomomi Shiraishi
7. JPN flag Ren Ishikawa
8. JPN flag Taichi Fujimoto

Sources[48][49][50][51][52]  

2010 National Championship

Location: Kyoto
Date: July 2-4, 2010
Formats: Standard and Booster Draft
Attendance: 300

1. JPN flag Katsuhiro Mori
2. JPN flag Tsuyoshi Ikeda
3. JPN flag Shou Tagomori
4. JPN flag Ryoichi Tamada
5. JPN flag Shota Yasooka
6. JPN flag Shou Ishikawa
7. JPN flag Naoki Shimizu
8. JPN flag Jinpei Hassaku

Sources[53][54][55][56]  

2011 National Championship

Location: Osaka
Date: July 16-18, 2011
Formats: Standard and Booster Draft
Attendance: 358

1. JPN flag Ryuuichirou Ishida
2. JPN flag Tomoya Fujimoto
3. JPN flag Makihito Mihara
4. JPN flag Yoshihiko Ikawa
5. JPN flag Ryoichi Tamada
6. JPN flag Shota Yasooka
7. JPN flag Kouei Itou
8. JPN flag Shota Takao

Sources[57][58][59][60][61]  

World Magic Cup (2012 to 2016)

Year Pro Points Champion Qualifier 1 Qualifier 2 Qualifier 3
2012[62] Yuuya Watanabe Akira Tanaka Sunao Nakai Yuuta Takahashi
2013[63] Yuuya Watanabe Jun'ya Takahashi Shunsuke Aka Kyohei Kusakabe
2014[64] Yuuya Watanabe Rahman Aryabhima Toshiya Kanegawa Sho Kiyonaga
2015[65] Yuuya Watanabe Ryoichi Tamada Soyo You Kenji Tsumura
2016[66] Shota Yasooka Kento Arita Toru Takeshita Kenji Tsumura

National Championships (2017 and 2018)

2017 National Championship

Location: Shizuoka
Date: September 9-10, 2017
Formats: Standard and Booster Draft
Attendance:

1. JPN flag Kenta Harane
2. JPN flag Shōta Yasooka
3. JPN flag Yuuya Watanabe
4. JPN flag Takeshi Hattori
5. JPN flag Riku Kumagai
6. JPN flag Ryoichi Tamada
7. JPN flag Yuki Matsumoto
8. JPN flag Yuuta Hirosawa

Pro Points Champion: Yuuya Watanabe
[67][68]  

2018 National Championship

Location: Tokyo
Date: September 8-9, 2018
Formats: Standard and Booster Draft
Attendance: 811

1. JPN flag Masahide Moriyama
2. JPN flag Naoya Nanba
3. JPN flag Ken Yukuhiro
4. JPN flag Kenta Harane
5. JPN flag So Iwabuchi
6. JPN flag Takashi Boku
7. JPN flag Yuuya Watanabe
8. JPN flag Kazuhiro Suzuki

Pro Points Champion: Ken Yukuhiro
[69][70]  

Japanese World Champions

Individual

Five Japanese players have been World Champion:

Team

Japan has won the team competition at Worlds twice:

External Links

More information can be found on the 日本選手権 (Japan Championships) page of the Japanese language mtgwiki.com.

Please note that mtgwiki.com is independent, and is not associated with us here at mtg.wiki.

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