National Track and Field Championships Entry List Highlights

Entry lists are out for next week's National Track and Field Championships in Nagoya, the main selection event for Japan's teams for September's Nagoya Asian Games and Copenhagen World Road Running Championships. Top entries in each event with best time in 2025-26. Asterisks indicate 2025 national champions.

Men

Men's 100 m

*Yoshihide Kiryu (Nihon Seimei) - 9.99

Sorato Shimizu (Seiryu H.S.) - 10.00

Yuhi Mori (Watanabe Pipe) - 10.00

Yuki Koike (Sumitomo Denko) - 10.06

Fukuto Komuro (Chuo Univ.) - 10.08

Ryota Yamagata (Seiko) - 10.08

Shuhei Tada (Sumitomo Denko) - 10.10

Ryota Suzuki (Suzuki) - 10.11

Naoki Inoue (Osaka Gas) - 10.12

Rikuto Higuchi (Suzuki) - 10.12

Men's 200 m

Shota Iizuka (Mizuno) - 20.45

Aoto Suzuki (Sumitomo Denko) - 20.49

Kota Uematsu (Chuo Univ.) - 20.50

Yuji Michael Orisa (GK Line) - 20.51

Soshi Mizukubo (Miyazaki T&F) - 20.51

Mitsuhiro Numata (Legalis) - 20.58

Seisho Sasaki (Iwate Univ.) - 20.60

Sota Miwa (Koizumi) - 20.61

Naoki Uemoto (Legalis) - 20.62

Hiroki Shigetani (Green Cross) - 20.62

Men's 400 m

Yuki Joseph Nakajima (Fujitsu) - 44.44

*Fuga Sato (Mizuno) - 45.10

Kira Hirakawa (Toyo Univ.) - 45.28

Kenki Imaizumi (Uchida Yoko AC) - 45.29

Shinya Hayashi (Tsukuba Univ.) - 45.30

Takuho Yoshizu (Miki House) - 45.40

Kentaro Sato (Fujitsu) - 45.50

Seinosuke Irizuki (Yamanashi Gakuin Univ.) - 45.71

Rikuya Ito (Sumitomo Denko) - 45.76

Haruki Morita (Waseda Univ.) - 45.83

Men's 800 m

Yugo Shikata (4 Directions) - 1:44.94

Hiroki Minamoto (NTN) - 1:45.01

Nanaki Manno (Kansai Univ.) - 1:45.31

Sho Tanabe (Chuo Univ.) - 1:45.32

Sota Okamura (Kanoya Taiiku Univ.) - 1:45.51

Junya Matsumoto (Narihiro Sangyo) - 1:45.64

Mikuto Kaneko (Arcyell) - 1:46.01

Kairu Yamaga (Taiiku Univ.) - 1:46.29

Sho Kawamoto (Suzuki) - 1:46.71

Junki Ishimoto (Arcyell) - 1:46.83

Men's 1500 m

*Kazuto Iizawa (Sumitomo Denko) - 3:35.90

Ojiro Honda (Waseda Univ.) - 3:37.72

Keisuke Morita (Subaru) - 3:38.35

Takumi Shiobara (Fujisan GX) - 3:38.39

Ryo Higuchi (Univ. of Kansas) - 3:38.58

Yusuke Takahashi (Sanyo Tokushu Seiko) - 3:38.91

Takumi Nakagawa (Juntendo Univ.) - 3:39.02

Tomoki Nakano (Toenec) - 3:39.12

Kazuki Kawamura (Toenec) - 3:39.38

Keita Sato (Nike Swoosh TC) - 3:39.59

Men's 5000 m

Kazuya Shiojiri (Fujitsu) - 13:13.59

Nagiya Mori (Honda) - 13:14.18

*Ryuto Igawa (Asahi Kasei) - 13:14.58

Tomonori Yamaguchi (SGH) - 13:16.38

Masaya Tsurukawa (GMO) - 13:17.54

Itta Tameike (SGH) - 13:19.24

Kaisei Okada (Chuo Univ.) - 13:19.44

Yota Mashiko (Waseda Univ.) - 13:20.35

Ryuki Suzuki (Waseda Univ.) - 13:20.64

Hyuga Endo (Sumitomo Denko) - 13:21.96

Men's 110 m Hurdles

Tatsuki Abe (Eternal Hospitality) - 13.12

*Shunsuke Izumiya (Sumitomo Denko) - 13.13

Shusei Nomoto (Ehime T&F) - 13.21

Taiga Yokochi (Digiverse) - 13.36

Shunya Takayama (Zenrin) - 13.36

Jeremy Koga (Juntendo Univ.) - 13.40

Hayato Higuchi (Tsukuba TP) - 13.42

Shuhei Ishikawa (Fujitsu) - 13.49

Ryota Fujii (Tottori T&F) - 13.52

Tetsuro Nishi (Waseda Univ.) - 13.53

Men's 400 m Hurdles

Kazuki Kurokawa (Sumitomo Denko) - 48.35

Kaito Tsutsue (ST-Wako) - 48.55

Ken Toyoda (Toyota) - 48.55

*Daiki Ogawa (Fujitsu) - 48.61

Hiromu Yamauchi (Toho Ginko) - 48.79

Shunta Inoue (Fujitsu) - 48.99

Ryosuke Takahashi (Tokyo T&F) - 49.06

Yusaku Kodama (Nojima T&F) - 49.09

Kunihiro Okamura (Nagano Kenshin) - 49.24

Shota Fuchigami (Waseda Univ.) - 49.24

Men's 3000 mSC

*Ryoma Aoki (Honda) - 8:18.75

Ryutaro Niinae (Aisan Kogyo) - 8:19.54

Hibiki Obara (GMO) - 8:22.64

Tetsu Sasaki (Waseda Univ,) - 8:24.96

Yasunari Kusu (Ami AC) - 8:27.35

Soma Nagahara (Juntendo Univ.) - 8:29.35

Daichi Shibata (Chuo Univ.) - 8:30.62

Sanetada Ono (Tokai Univ.) - 8:31.41

Tatsuhiro Taniguchi (NTN) - 8:32.41

Hayate Sato (Fujisan GX) - 8:33.04

Men's High Jump

Yuto Seko (Yamada Holdings) - 2.33 m

*Tomohiro Shinno (Kraftia) - 2.30 m

Naoto Hasegawa (Niigata Albirex RC) - 2.30 m

Hirokazu Sakai (Senko) - 2.25 m

Sota Haraguchi (Juntendo Univ.) - 2.25 m

Men's Pole Vault

*Masaki Ejima (Fujitsu) - 5.70 m

Tomoya Karasawa (Higashi Nihon Mitsubishi) - 5.66 m

Koki Kuruma (Izumo T&F) - 5.60 m

Atsushi Haraguchi (Osaka Keizai Univ.) - 5.57 m

Seito Yamamoto (Toyota) - 5.55 m

Men's Long Jump

Yuki Hashioka (Fujitsu) - 8.22 m

Hibiki Tsuha (Otsuka Seiyaku) - 8.15 m

Riku Ito (Suzuki) - 8.11 m

Koki Fujihara (Toyo Univ.) - 8.03 m

Ryosei Matsushita (Kyorindo) - 7.99 m

Men's Triple Jump

Taiga Oda (Xspo Seagulls) - 16.70 m

*Kohei Yamashita (ANA) - 16.67 m

Yuto Adachi (Fukuoka Univ. AC) - 16.57 m

Manato Miyao (Toyo Univ.) - 16.39 m

Ryoma Yamamoto (JAL) - 16.27 m

Men's Shot Put

Hitoshi Okumura (Senko) - 19.08 m

*Daichi Morishita (Sekisho Shoji) - 18.67 m

Shinichi Yukinaga (Shikoku Univ. AC) - 18.41 m

Jason Atuobeng (Fukuoka Univ.) - 18.39 m

Hyogo Watanabe (Niigata Iryo Fukushi Univ.) - 18.12 m

Men's Discus Throw

Masateru Yugami (Toyota) - 65.38 m

*Shinichi Yukinaga (Shikoku Univ. AC) - 61.94 m

Yuji Tsutsumi (Alsok) - 61.76 m

Koshiro Fujiwara (Aomori T&F) - 60.68 m

Hiroki Kitahara (Niigata Albirex RC) - 58.44 m

Men's Hammer Throw

*Shota Fukuda (Sumitomo Denko) - 74.57 m

Tatsuro Nakagawa (Sanyo Tokushu Seiko) - 72.32 m

Ryota Kashimura (Yamada Holdings) - 71.46 m

Takahiro Kobata (Baba Jibika) - 70.78 m

Yuji Tarui (Shikoku Gakuin Univ. AC) - 68.50 m

Men's Javelin Throw

*Yuta Sakiyama (Yamada Holdings) - 87.16 m

Roderick Genki Dean (Mizuno) - 84.66 m

Taisei Aibara (Miyazaki T&F) - 81.54 m

Rin Suzuki (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) - 81.23 m

Gen Naganuma (Suzuki) - 80.58 m

Women

Women's 100 m

Midori Mikase (Sumitomo Denko) - 11.33

*Abigail Fuka Ido (Toho Ginko) - 11.35

Arisa Kimishima (DKS) - 11.38

Masumi Aoki (77 Ginko) - 11.42

Manaka Miura (Ehime T&F) - 11.42

Yuna Miura (Cerespo) - 11.47

Akiha Kobari (Suruga Univ.) - 11.47

Asuka Takahashi (GK Line) - 11.50

Women's 200 m

*Abigail Fuka Ido (Toho Ginko) - 22.79

Ami Takahashi (Tsukuba Univ.) - 23.20

Remi Tsuruta (Minami Kyushu Family Mart) - 23.21

Miyuko Maeda (Fukuoka Univ.) - 23.31

Shuri Aono (ND Software) - 23.36

Aiko Iki (Osaka Gas) - 23.41

Aiha Yamagata (Fukuoka Univ.) - 23.53

Akitha Kobari (Surugadai Univ.) - 23.58

Women's 400 m

Arie Aoki (Nittai Univ.) - 51.71

Nanako Matsumoto (Toho Ginko) - 52.14

*Aoi Teramoto (At Home) - 53.14

Shizuho Moriyama (Ichigo) - 53.17

Yuzuki Nakao (Sonoda Gakuen Univ.) - 53.20

Yuna Iwata (Suzuki) - 53.20

Yuzuki Kojima (Ritsumeikan Univ.) - 53.51

Saki Imamine (Ritsumeikan Univ.) - 53.74

Women's 800 m

*Rin Kubo (Sekisui Kagaku) - 1:59.52

Ayano Shiomi (Iwatani Sangyo) - 2:01.01

Kurumi Sugure (Tsukuba Univ.) - 2:04.14

Senri Mori (Shigakkan Univ.) - 2:04.27

Hanon Sasaki (Tsukuba Univ.) - 2:04.74

Yuri Nishida (Ritsumeikan Univ.) - 2:04.81

Ayaka Kawata (Niconiconori) - 2:04.89

Ran Urabe (Sekisui Kagaku) - 2:04.96

Women's 1500 m

*Nozomi Tanaka (Toyota Jidoshokki) - 4:04.16

Tomoka Kimura (Sekisui Kagaku) - 4:09.88

Mizuki Michishita (Sekisui Kagaku) - 4:10.48

Airi Tajima (Juntendo Univ.) - 4:11.02

Nodoka Ashida (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) - 4:12.48

Mahiro Hasegawa (Iwatani Sangyo) - 4:13.92

Karin Yasumoto (Starts) - 4:14.69

Chikako Mori (Sekisui Kagaku) - 4:14.83

Women's 5000 m

*Nozomi Tanaka (Toyota Jidoshokki) - 14:34.10

Kana Mizumoto (Edion) - 15:06.98

Miu Saito (Panasonic) - 15:11.01

Yuma Yamamoto (Sekisui Kagaku) - 15:12.97

Nanaka Izawa (Starts) - 15:16.70

Wakana Kabasawa (Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) - 15:19.45

Miyaka Sugata (Japan Post) - 15:19.59

Yuka Ando (Shimamura) - 15:21.16

Women's 100 m Hurdles

Hitomi Nakajima (Hasegawa) - 12.71

Mako Fukube (NKK) - 12.73

Chisato Kiyoyama (Ichigo) - 12.77

*Yumi Tanaka (Fujitsu) - 12.80

Masumi Aoki (77 Ginko) - 12.90

Rei Honda (Mitoshin) - 12.91

Shu Muraoka (NSD) - 12.94

Yuki Omatsu (CDL) - 12.95

Women's 400 m Hurdles

*Satsuki Umehara (Sumitomo Denko) - 56.43

Akane Minamisawa (Matsumoto DK) - 56.51

Ami Yamamoto (Fujitsu) - 56.87

Honoka Aoki (Zenrin) - 56.93

Ayesha Ibrahim (Seiyo Sangyo) - 57.10

Rene Shinto (Vida) - 57.10

Moe Matsuoka (Suzuki) - 57.21

Haru Hiraki (Osaka Seikei Univ.) - 57.31

Women's 3000 mSC

Miu Saito (Panasonic) - 9:24.72

*Manami Nishiyama (Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) - 9:40.85

Yuzu Nishide (Daihatsu) - 9:45.89

Momoa Yamada (Shimamura) - 9:50.97

Ayana Yamashita (Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) - 9:54.49

Ayaka Koike (Denso) - 9:59.63

Nozomi Kondo (Meijo Univ.) - 9:59.67

Yuka Komatsu (Kraftia) - 10:02.76

Women's High Jump

Nagisa Takahashi (Senko) - 1.92 m

Yuzuki Ishioka (Nihon Joshi Taiiku Univ. AC) - 1.86 m

*Sheriai Tsuda (Tsukiji Gindako) - 1.85 m

Yuki Morisaki (Nihon Joshi Taiiku Univ.) - 1.85 m

Women's Pole Vault

Misaki Morota (At Home) - 4.50 m

*Mitsuki Kobayashi (Nittai Univ.) - 4.31 m

Akari Osakaya (Ehime T&F) - 4.25 m

Rena Tanaka (Yoshida Sekiyu) - 4.25 m

Women's Long Jump

*Ayaka Kora (JAL) - 6.48 m

Miu Kimura (Shikoku Univ. AC) - 6.47 m

Sumire Hata (Sumitomo Denko) - 6.47 m

Yuhi Narisawa (Chuo Univ.) - 6.40 m

Women's Triple Jump

*Maoko Takashima (Kraftia) - 13.94 m

Akari Funada (Niconiconori) - 13.87 m

Mariko Morimoto (Orico) - 13.83 m

Hazuki Hirose (Sonoda Gakuen Univ.) - 13.04 m

Women's Shot Put

*Chiharu Saka (Osaka Taiiku Univ.) - 15.76 m

Haruka Osako (SomayQ) - 15.71 m

Kotomi Okuyama (Okayama Shoka Univ.) - 15.62 m

Niko Murase (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) - 15.43 m

Women's Discus Throw

*Nanaka Kori (Niconiconori) - 59.23 m

Maki Saito (Taihei Dengyo) - 57.65 m

Minori Tsujikawa (Uchida Yoko AC) - 53.18 m

Yukino Hokama (Kokushikan Univ.) - 52.14 m

Women's Hammer Throw

Joy McArthur (USC) - 67.76 m

*Raika Murakami (Zenrin) - 66.95 m

Mimi Shimamoto (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) - 64.01 m

Teresa Epasaka (Kagotani) - 62.29 m

Women's Javelin Throw

Haruka Kitaguchi (JAL) - 64.63 m

*Momone Ueda (Zenrin) - 62.20 m

Yuki Yamamoto (Takada Kogyosho) - 61.45 m

Sayuka Kurata (Keio Univ.) - 60.57 m

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On Apr. 9 the Kinki Region Bureau of Health, Labor and Welfare's Drug Control Division arrested Matthew Inglis Fox , 38, an Australian business owner of no known fixed address, on charges of violating the importation regulations of the Narcotics Control Act by smuggling tablets containing marijuana elements from the United States. The suspect had entered Japan in February to run in the Osaka Marathon . The suspect was arrested on suspicion of smuggling approximately 12 pills containing marijuana by sending them from a U.S. airport to Osaka's Kansai Airport using an international courier service on Feb. 19. The Osaka branch of the Customs Service discovered the tablets in arriving cargo and suspected them to be narcotics. Customs contacted the Narcotics Control Division, which then began its investigation of the case. According to the Narcotics Control Division, the suspect denies the charges. Translator's note: Fox, who received a lifetime ban from the Ageo City Half Mara...

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