Miss Universe Japan 2015

Miss Universe Japan 2015
Date	March 12, 2015
Venue	Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo, Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan
Entrants	47
Placements	16
Winner	Ariana Miyamoto[1]  Nagasaki

Miss Universe Japan 2015 (Japanese: 2015 ミス・ユニバース・ジャパン), the Miss Universe Japan pageant, took place in the Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo, Bunkyō-ku, Tokyo, Japan, on March 12, 2015. Keiko Tsuji of Nagasaki crowned her successor Ariana Miyamoto from Nagasaki at the end of the event.^[2]

Results

Final Results	Contestant
Miss Universe Japan 2015	Nagasaki - Ariana Miyamoto[3]
1st Runner-up	Oita - Rina Inoko
2nd Runner-up	Chiba - Hikaru Tsuchiya
3rd Runner-up	Aichi - Mao Kaneko
4th Runner-up	Tokyo - Tamao Tada
Top 16	Ehime - Akane Takase  Fukushima - Rikako Maebayashi  Gifu - Saya Honno  Iwate - Sakiko Tomita  Kagawa - Minori Miyaguchi  Kanagawa - Ayaka Yamaoka  Kyoto - Mayuko Fujiwara  Miyagi - Risa Shoji  Miyazaki - Nami Shimada  Toyama - Rina Hirata  Yamanashi - Eri Natori

Contestants

47 contestants participated:^[4]

Prefecture	Contestant
Aichi	Mao Kaneko
Akita	Shiori Nara
Aomori	Manami Takano
Chiba	Hikaru Tsuchiya
Ehime	Akane Takase
Fukui	Yuuka Hoshino
Fukuoka	Wakaba Suda
Fukushima	Rikako Maebayashi
Gifu	Saya Honno
Gunma	Ayaka Ishikubo
Hiroshima	Remi Nagamoto
Hokkaido	Risako Oomura
Hyogo	Emiko Kanou
Ibaraki	Yoko Nishino
Ishikawa	Ai Higashide
Iwate	Sakiko Tomita
Kagawa	Minori Miyaguchi
Kagoshima	Yu Takeyama
Kanagawa	Ayaka Yamaoka
Kochi	Reiko Watanabe
Kumamoto	Airi Yukawa
Kyoto	Mayuko Fujiwara
Mie	Yuki Kusano
Miyagi	Risa Shoji
Miyazaki	Nami Shimada
Nagano	Saki Ichinose
Nagasaki	Ariana Miyamoto
Nara	Naoko Fukunaga
Niigata	Marie Izumi
Oita	Rina Inoko
Okayama	Chika Takeda
Okinawa	Akari Oda
Osaka	Yuka Morikawa
Saga	Yoshiko Okuzono
Saitama	Risa Shimogawara
Shiga	Miyu Tanaka
Shimane	Yukari Yumen
Shizuoka	Serina Shibayama
Tochigi	Erika Koyama
Tokushima	Shizuka Komori
Tokyo	Tamao Tada
Tottori	Rika Watanabe
Toyama	Rina Hirata
Wakayama	Yuki Morita
Yamagata	Chiemi Yamazaki
Yamaguchi	Suzuyo Okamoto
Yamanashi	Eri Natori

References

1. "Miss Japan 2015: Ariana Miyamoto Reviews". www.angelopepdia.com. Angelopedia. 12 March 2015.
2. Frances Kai-Hwa Wang. "The First Multiracial Miss Universe Japan Has Been Crowned". NBC News.
3. "Miss Universe Japan 2015: (Japanese News) Ariana Miyomoto". headlines.yahoo.co.jp. headlines.yahoo.co.jp. 12 March 2015.
4. MUJ2015. "MUJ2015". MUJ2015.