Japan women's national ice hockey team
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| Association | Japanese Ice Hockey Federation |
| World ranking | 8th place |
| Trainer | Yoshifumi Fujisawa |
| Assistant coach | Yujiro Kasahara |
| Most games | Hirano Yuka (67) |
| Most of the points | Kubo Hanae (54) |
| Homepage | jihf.or.jp |
| Olympic games | |
| Participation | 1998 |
| Best result: | 6th place (1998) |
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| Participation | since 1990 |
| best result | 7th place (2008) |
| (As of November 27, 2015) | |
The Japanese national ice hockey team of the women 's national ice hockey national team of Japan . She is eighth in the 2015 IIHF world rankings and plays in the top division of the world championship.
history
The Japanese women's national ice hockey team has been participating in international competitions since 1990. Her greatest success so far at a World Cup was finishing seventh at the 2008 World Cup . In their only Olympic participation in 1998 , the Japanese finished in their own country in Nagano in sixth and thus last place.
Japan, which is one of the best countries in Asia for women's ice hockey, finished the Asian Winter Games with a silver medal in the first five appearances. In 2017 they won the tournament.
Placements
World championships
- 1990 - 8th place
- 1992 - did not participate
- 1994 - did not participate
- 1997 - did not participate
- 1999 - 9th place (1st B-WM, promotion to the top division)
- 2000 - 8th place (relegation to Division I)
- 2001 - 10th place (2nd Division I)
- 2003 - 9th place (1st Division I, promotion to the top division)
- 2004 - 9th place (relegation to Division I)
- 2005 - 10th place (2nd Division I)
- 2007 - 10th place (1st Division I, promotion to the top division)
- 2008 - 7th place
- 2009 - 8th place (relegation to Division I)
- 2011 - no participation due to the Tōhoku earthquake
- 2012 - 11th place (3rd Division IA)
- 2013 - 9th place (1st Division IA, promotion to the top division)
- 2015 - 7th place
- 2016 - 8th place (relegation to Division IA)
- 2017 - 9th place (1st Division IA, promotion to the top division)
- 2019 - 8th place
winter Olympics
- 1998 - 6th place
- 2002 - did not qualify
- 2006 - did not qualify
- 2010 - did not qualify
- 2014 - 7th place
- 2018 - 6th place
Placements at the Winter Asian Games
- 1996 - silver medal
- 1999 - silver medal
- 2003 - silver medal
- 2007 - silver medal
- 2011 - silver medal
- 2017 - gold medal