Japanese Nationals 2025 Preview and Junior Grand Prix Final Recap

We preview the All-Japan Figure Skating Championships (Japanese Nationals) and its hotly contested Olympic team outcomes. We also look back at the Junior Grand Prix Final, particularly the very exciting junior women’s event. Golden Spin 2025 receives a recap as well, along with a number of other smaller federation national championships.

December 16, 2025

All-Japan Championships 2025 Preview + Recap of the Junior Grand Prix Final

As mentioned in the episode, here is Rocker Skating’s resource for how each federation selects its Olympic teams.

Chapters

0:00 Intro
01:06 Japanese Nationals Preview
02:18 Kaori Sakamoto
02:50 Ami Nakai
04:41 Mone Chiba
05:36 Rion Sumiyoshi
07:39 Rinka Watanabe
08:16 Wakaba Higuchi and Mai Mihara
10:12 The other Japanese senior women
11:23 The Junior Women competitors
11:59 Japanese Men’s Competition
12:16 Yuma Kagiyama and Shun Sato
12:53 Kao Miura and Kazuki Tomono
13:08 Sota Yamamoto
15:40 The Junior Japanese men competitors
16:16 Ice Dance and Pairs Competitions
16:25 Miura and Kihara
16:37 Nagata and Moriguchi
17:34 Ice Dance Competition
18:17 Koshida and Shimada
19:21 Kihira and Nishyama
20:19 French Nationals
24:21 Italian Nationals Preview
30:57 German Nationals
32:08 Four Nationals
34:51 Estonian Nationals
36:18 Finnish Nationals
38:59 Junior Grand Prix Final Recap
39:18 JGPF Women’s Competition
40:06 Mao Shimada
42:05 Yuseong Kim
43:37 Mei Okada
44:18 Yujae Kim
45:52 Sumika Kanazawa
48:26 Mayuko Oka
50:26 JGPF Men’s Competition
50:52 Rio Nakata
51:21 Minkyu Seo
53:06 Lucius Kazanecki
55:13 JGPF Pairs — Guo and Zhang
56:13 JGPF Ice Dance — Abonian and Veselukhin
58:15 Golden Spin recap
01:09:17 Wrap-Up

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