The Japan Open was an annual table tennis tournament in Japan, run by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). It was part of the ITTF World Tour.
History
The tournament was first held in 1989, and was featured on the ITTF World Tour's schedule every year since the Tour's inception in 1996.
Sweden's Jan-Ove Waldner and Germany's Timo Boll jointly hold the record for most men's singles tournament wins, with three each, while Wang Nan of China holds the record for most women's singles tournament wins, with four.
In August 2016, it was announced by the ITTF that Tokyo has been chosen as one of six cities to host a "World Tour Platinum" event in 2017. These events will replace the Super Series as the top tier of the ITTF World Tour.
Champions
Individual Events
1989–2017
Year Men's singles Women's singles Men's doubles Women's doubles1989 Ma Wenge Chan Tan Lui Kiyoshi Saito Yuji Matsushita Hu Xiaoxin Qiao Hong1990 Jan-Ove Waldner Chen Zihe Erik Lindh Jörgen Persson Ding Yaping Li Jun1991 Jan-Ove Waldner Deng Yaping Wang Yonggan Yu Shentong Deng Yaping Qiao Hong1992 Wang Tao Deng Yaping Ma Wenge Yu Shentong Hong Cha-ok Hyun Jung-hwa1993 Wang Tao Chai Po Wa Lü Lin Wang Tao Kim Boon-sik Park Hae-jung1994 Wenguan Johnny Huang Tang Weiyi1995 Ding Song Park Hae-jung1996 Ding Song Qiao Hong Kang Hee-chan Kim Taek-soo Park Hae-jung Ryu Ji-hae1997 Jan-Ove Waldner Wang Chen Wang Liqin Yan Sen Lee Eun-sil Ryu Ji-hae1998 Kong Linghui Li Ju Ma Lin Wang Tao Li Ju Wang Nan1999 Vladimir Samsonov Wang Nan Ma Lin Qin Zhijian Sun Jin Yang Ying2000 Wang Liqin Wang Nan Kong Linghui Liu Guoliang Sun Jin Yang Ying2001 Chiang Peng-lung Wang Nan Ma Lin Wang Hao Kim Bok-rae Kim Kyung-ah2002 Kalinikos Kreanga Kim Kyung-ah Akira Kito Toshio Tasaki Jing Junhong Li Jiawei2003 Timo Boll Guo Yue Chen Qi Ma Lin Guo Yue Niu Jianfeng2004 Chen Qi Zhang Yining Wang Liqin Yan Sen Guo Yue Niu Jianfeng2005 Timo Boll Zhang Yining Timo Boll Christian Süß Bai Yang Cao Zhen2006 Wang Liqin Wang Yuegu Ma Lin Wang Hao Tie Ya Na Zhang Rui2007 Wang Hao Wang Nan Chen Qi Wang Liqin Guo Yue Li Xiaoxia2008 Ma Lin Zhang Yining2009 Oh Sang-eun Park Mi-young Seiya Kishikawa Jun Mizutani Sayaka Hirano Reiko Hiura2010 Timo Boll Wang Yuegu Kenta Matsudaira Koki Niwa Yuka Ishigaki Yuri Yamanashi2011 Seiya Kishikawa Feng Tianwei Lin Gaoyuan Wu Jiaji Hiroko Fujii Misako Wakamiya2012 Jun Mizutani Shen Yanfei Kim Min-seok Seo Hyun-deok Hiroko Fujii Misako Wakamiya2013 Masato Shiono Ai Fukuhara Jin Ueda Maharu Yoshimura Gu Yuting Zhou Xintong2014 Yu Ziyang Feng Tianwei Seiya Kishikawa Jun Mizutani Ai Fukuhara Misako Wakamiya2015 Xu Xin Chen Meng Ma Long Xu Xin Liu Fei Wu Yang2016 Fan Zhendong Liu Shiwen Ma Long Xu Xin Ding Ning Li Xiaoxia2017 Ma Long Sun Yingsha Ma Long Xu Xin Chen Xingtong Sun Yingsha
2018–present
Year Men's singles Women's singles Men's doubles Women's doubles Mixed doubles2018 Tomokazu Harimoto Mima Ito Jung Young-sik Lee Sang-su Gu Yuting Mu Zi Liang Jingkun Chen Xingtong2019 Xu Xin Sun Yingsha Fan Zhendong Xu Xin Chen Meng Liu Shiwen Xu Xin Zhu Yuling
Team Events
Year Men's Team Women's Team1989 Czechoslovakia China1990 Sweden China1991 Sweden China1992 China China1994 China China1995 South Korea South Korea2008 China China
See also Asian Table Tennis Union
References
External links International Table Tennis Federation Japan Table Tennis Association (in Japanese)