Kokona Ishikawa (石川 心菜, Ishikawa Kokona; born 11 October 2004) is a Japanese badminton player who competes in doubles.…Kokona Ishikawa (石川 心菜, Ishikawa Kokona; born 11 October 2004) is a Japanese badminton player who competes in doubles. A bronze medalist in girls' doubles at the 2022 World Junior Championships, she has won a World Tour Super 100 title at the 2025 Kaohsiung Masters. Ishikawa achieved a career-high women's doubles ranking of No. 23. A former member of the Japanese national team, she plays for the Gifu Bluvic badminton team.
Ririna Hiramoto (平本 梨々菜, Hiramoto Ririna; born 19 May 2006) is a Japanese badminton player who competes in doubles. A…Ririna Hiramoto (平本 梨々菜, Hiramoto Ririna; born 19 May 2006) is a Japanese badminton player who competes in doubles. A gold medalist in girls' doubles at the 2024 World Junior Championships, she won her first BWF World Tour title at the 2025 Kaohsiung Masters Super 100. Hiramoto achieved a career-high women's doubles ranking of No. 23. She currently plays for the Gifu Bluvic badminton team.
Kodai Naraoka (奈良岡 功大, Naraoka Kōdai; born 30 June 2001) is a Japanese badminton player affiliated with NTT East. Born…Kodai Naraoka (奈良岡 功大, Naraoka Kōdai; born 30 June 2001) is a Japanese badminton player affiliated with NTT East. Born in Aomori, he started playing badminton at the age of 5 with the influence of his father. He won the silver medal at the 2023 and 2026 BWF World Championships. In his junior career, Naraoka has won a silver at the World Junior Championships in 2018, where he previously claimed a bronze in 2017. He represented his country competed at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina, won the bronze medals in the boys' singles and mixed team event. He competed for Japan at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the men's singles event.
Shiho Tanaka (田中志穗, Tanaka Shiho; born 5 September 1992) is a Japanese retired badminton player who affiliates with…Shiho Tanaka (田中志穗, Tanaka Shiho; born 5 September 1992) is a Japanese retired badminton player who affiliates with Hokuto Bank team. She was the bronze medalists at the 2018 World Championships in the women's doubles, and at the 2015 Summer Universiade in the women's singles. She won the year-end tournament Superseries Finals in 2017. Tanaka was part of Japanese winning team at the 2017 Asia Mixed Team Championships, 2018 Uber Cup, and at the 2018 Asia Women's Team Championships.
Yui Hashimoto (橋本 由衣, Hashimoto Yui; born 14 May 1990) is a Japanese badminton player who plays for NTT East badminton…Yui Hashimoto (橋本 由衣, Hashimoto Yui; born 14 May 1990) is a Japanese badminton player who plays for NTT East badminton club. She retired from the National team on 26 December 2019 at the Japanese National Badminton Championships.