Japan Bishōjo Contest

The Japan Bishojo Contest (全日本国民的美少女コンテスト) is a beauty contest and audition contest name that has been held every year since 1987 in Oscar Promotion, and is the sister pageant of the Japan Beautiful Girl Contest. When a bishōjo wins the Japanese Girl pageant, the first runner-up becomes Japan Bishojo Contest.

Many of the winners have careers related to popular culture. Miki Fujitani, the 1987 winner,^[1] is also a voice actress; she is best known as the voice of Kaoru Kamiya in Rurouni Kenshin. Aiko Sato, the 1992 winner,^[2] is an actress known as Kotoko Aihara in the 1996 drama version of Itazura na Kiss. Azusa Yamamoto, the 1997 contestant and favorite to win, is an actress; she is well known as Furabijō in Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger. Moeko Matsushita, another 1997 contestant and winner of best multimedia,^[3] is an actress and singer. Her most famous role as an actress is Hina Kusaka in Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon. Aya Ueto, another 1997 contestant and winner of the Judges' Special Choice Prize,^[4] is an actress; her best roles are as "Azumi" in Azumi and Azumi 2: Death or Love and as "Yoko Misaki" in Attention Please.

All Time Winners

First (1987)[5] Grand Prix：Miki Fujitani[1] Model Division：Hiromi Oda Second (1988)[5] Grand Prix：Naomi Hosokawa Actor Division：Noriko Tanaka Music Division：Kiwako Yoshiwara (Tomomi Harada, Hikaru Kusaka) Maintainer:Yuko Anai, Mikiyo Ono, Erika Haneda Third (1989)[5] Grand Prix: Mitsuyo Obara[6] Music Division：Jyuria Matsuda Fourth (1990)[5] Grand Prix：Akane Oda[7] Model Division：Asami Ishikawa Fifth (1991)[5] Grand Prix：Masami Imamura[8] Model Division：Kayoko Yamamoto Maintainer：Maria Saito (Nihon TV announcer) Sixth (1992)[5] Grand Prix：Aiko Sato[2] Special：Ryoko Yonekura Actor Division：Sarina Suzuki Maintainer：Misato Tanaka Preference：Kaori Mochida Seventh (1997)[9] Grand Prix：Atsuko Sudou[10] Multimedia：Moeco Matsushita[3] Actor Division：Manami Hashimoto Music Division：Mami Nejiki Special：Aya Ueto[4] and Shinobu Ikehata Maintainer：Mai Fujiya Preference：Azusa Yamamoto Eighth (2002) Grand Prix*Multi Media (same)：Asuka Shibuya[11] Grand Prix：Mizuho Sakata Special Award：Ayaka Mita (Ayaka Akai) Music Division：Yurina Kina Actor Division：Saya Yamakawa Model Division：Eri Sakai Ninth (2003) Grand Prix*Multi Media (same)：Mayuko Kawakita[12] Special Award：Reina Hoshikawa (Reina Minagawa - TBS announcer) Music Division：Yuka Honda Actor Division：Akemi Kimura Model Division：Arisa Urahama Gravure：Mikie Hara

Tenth (2004) Grand Prix：Kurumi Yamauchi[13] Special Award：Nina Sakai and Natsuki Saitō Music Division：Aoi Yamazoe Actor Division：Saki Fukuda Model Division：Kana Sugiura Multi Media：Haruna Yahagi Gravure：Ai Takabe Variety：Kanako Morikawa Eleventh (2006) Grand Prix：Tantan Hayashi[14] Special Award：Shiori Kutsuna and Rikako Tanaka Music Division：Not available Actor Division：Karen Miyazaki Model Division：Emi Takei Multi Media：Emi Takei Gravure：Not available Twelfth (2009) Grand Prix*Model Division：Ayano Kudo[15] Special Award：Saeka Konishi, Ria Tamaki, Kotomi Onaka Music Division：Risako Togano Actor Division：Mizuki Satō Multi Media：Mari Tamashiro Gravure：Not available Thirteenth (2012)[16] Grand Prix : Miyu Yoshimoto and Nanaka Ozawa Special Award：Manami Igashira and Ichika Osaki Music Division：Mai Suenaga Actor Division：Hasumi Shiratori and Koharu Yamaki Model Division：Ayano Wakayama Multi Media：Honoka Kaminaguchi Gravure：Sakura Komoriya Fourteenth (2014)[17] Grand Prix : Hikaru Takahashi Special Award：Moe Fujie and Yūka Takamura Music Division：Natsumi Hanaoka Actor Division：Hikaru Kadogaki and Yurina Kawaguchi Model Division：Rubiner Maya and Risa Kikukawa Multi Media：Mika Iijima Gravure：Shiori Inuzuka

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External links

• The 14th Japan Bishojo Contest on Oscar Promotion (Japanese)
• List of winners on Oscar Promotion (Japanese)