FEDERATION · NO. 2 BY PRIZE MONEY
Japan table tennis prize money
93 players, $5,551,003 on the WTT tour between 2022 to 2026, and 255 titles. Tomokazu Harimoto has taken $765,788 of it.
Everything the tour has paid to players entered under this flag, from the draw sheet of every event since 2022. It is prize money rather than salary: a table tennis player's tour income is the rounds they reach, and nothing else is written down.
PRIZE MONEY $5.6m
TOP EARNER $766k
PLAYERS PAID 93
TITLES 255
SHARE OF THE TOUR 13.1%
Every Japan player the tour has paid
Ranked by career WTT prize money
| # | Player | Titles | Paid results | Span | World rank | Prize money |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Tomokazu Harimoto | 18 | 85 | 2022 to 2026 | 4 | $765,788 |
| 02 | Miwa Harimoto | 25 | 97 | 2022 to 2026 | 8 | $654,810 |
| 03 | Hina Hayata | 19 | 79 | 2022 to 2026 | 13 | $527,890 |
| 04 | Sora Matsushima | 7 | 74 | 2023 to 2026 | 18 | $436,980 |
| 05 | Mima Ito | 2 | 49 | 2022 to 2026 | 20 | $431,588 |
| 06 | Satsuki Odo | 26 | 80 | 2024 to 2026 | 26 | $359,058 |
| 07 | Shunsuke Togami | 6 | 81 | 2022 to 2026 | 37 | $291,317 |
| 08 | Yukiya Uda | 1 | 59 | 2022 to 2026 | 50 | $235,263 |
| 09 | Miyuu Kihara | 5 | 68 | 2022 to 2026 | 54 | $222,512 |
| 10 | Miyu Nagasaki | 5 | 84 | 2022 to 2026 | 55 | $220,396 |
| 11 | Hiroto Shinozuka | 3 | 72 | 2022 to 2026 | 64 | $203,680 |
| 12 | Miu Hirano | 5 | 51 | 2022 to 2026 | 71 | $187,917 |
| 13 | Honoka Hashimoto | 11 | 40 | 2022 to 2026 | 72 | $179,500 |
| 14 | Kasumi Ishikawa | 12 | 2022 to 2023 | 96 | $117,275 | |
| 15 | Hitomi Sato | 18 | 58 | 2022 to 2026 | 123 | $89,351 |
| 16 | Sakura Yokoi | 14 | 61 | 2024 to 2026 | 132 | $74,271 |
| 17 | Maharu Yoshimura | 4 | 38 | 2022 to 2026 | 134 | $72,957 |
| 18 | Yuta Tanaka | 3 | 48 | 2022 to 2026 | 146 | $64,800 |
| 19 | Hayuma Abe | 1 | 2026 | 173 | $50,000 | |
| 20 | Kazuki Hamada | 3 | 32 | 2022 to 2026 | 212 | $29,735 |
| 21 | Mizuki Oikawa | 1 | 44 | 2022 to 2026 | 217 | $27,420 |
| 22 | Sakura Mori | 4 | 17 | 2022 to 2024 | 222 | $26,135 |
| 23 | Ryoichi Yoshiyama | 2 | 40 | 2022 to 2026 | 227 | $25,580 |
| 24 | Saki Shibata | 6 | 31 | 2022 to 2026 | 257 | $21,351 |
| 25 | Kaho Akae | 10 | 32 | 2023 to 2026 | 258 | $21,325 |
| 26 | Asuka Sasao | 6 | 38 | 2022 to 2026 | 283 | $16,583 |
| 27 | Sachi Aoki | 3 | 23 | 2024 to 2026 | 293 | $15,337 |
| 28 | Kazuhiro Yoshimura | 1 | 23 | 2022 to 2026 | 326 | $12,545 |
| 29 | Yuna Ojio | 3 | 25 | 2023 to 2026 | 341 | $11,080 |
| 30 | Misuzu Takeya | 6 | 32 | 2023 to 2026 | 343 | $11,040 |
| 31 | Masataka Morizono | 1 | 2022 | 353 | $10,000 | |
| 32 | Satoshi Aida | 1 | 23 | 2022 to 2026 | 357 | $9,880 |
| 33 | Yuhi Sakai | 1 | 23 | 2024 to 2026 | 361 | $9,615 |
| 34 | Yuto Kizukuri | 3 | 13 | 2022 to 2026 | 375 | $9,035 |
| 35 | Anne Uesawa | 2 | 21 | 2024 to 2025 | 419 | $6,660 |
| 36 | Ryuusei Kawakami | 1 | 10 | 2025 to 2026 | 431 | $6,430 |
| 37 | Haruna Ojio | 7 | 2022 to 2024 | 452 | $5,755 | |
| 38 | Jo Yokotani | 1 | 23 | 2022 to 2026 | 453 | $5,700 |
| 39 | Kotomi Omoda | 9 | 2025 to 2026 | 464 | $5,300 | |
| 40 | Kyoka Idesawa | 2 | 13 | 2024 to 2026 | 470 | $5,130 |
| 41 | Miyu Kato | 1 | 2022 | 475 | $5,000 | |
| 42 | Yuka Kaneyoshi | 3 | 7 | 2026 | 482 | $4,785 |
| 43 | Rin Mende | 4 | 7 | 2026 | 490 | $4,625 |
| 44 | Hiromu Kobayashi | 2 | 13 | 2025 to 2026 | 494 | $4,535 |
| 45 | Reina Aso | 1 | 9 | 2025 to 2026 | 496 | $4,500 |
| 46 | Mao Takamori | 1 | 6 | 2024 to 2026 | 507 | $4,188 |
| 47 | Cocona Muramatsu | 1 | 8 | 2025 to 2026 | 521 | $4,000 |
| 48 | Takuya Jin | 9 | 2022 to 2023 | 528 | $3,875 | |
| 49 | Kazuki Yoshiyama | 11 | 2025 to 2026 | 546 | $3,545 | |
| 50 | Kotona Okada | 1 | 8 | 2024 to 2026 | 547 | $3,525 |
| 51 | Kasumi Kimura | 1 | 6 | 2024 to 2026 | 564 | $3,240 |
| 52 | Yuto Muramatsu | 2 | 8 | 2024 to 2025 | 565 | $3,235 |
| 53 | Hayate Suzuki | 1 | 13 | 2022 to 2026 | 591 | $2,765 |
| 54 | Sota Noda | 3 | 7 | 2025 to 2026 | 647 | $2,155 |
| 55 | Fumiya Igarashi | 2 | 8 | 2025 to 2026 | 658 | $2,020 |
| 56 | Koki Niwa | 3 | 2022 | 687 | $1,850 | |
| 57 | Keishi Hagihara | 10 | 2024 to 2026 | 708 | $1,715 | |
| 58 | Shunsuke Okano | 5 | 2024 to 2026 | 790 | $1,275 | |
| 59 | Yui Sakuma | 1 | 2026 | 858 | $1,100 | |
| 60 | Yuto Abe | 1 | 3 | 2025 | 967 | $810 |
| 61 | Moe Nomura | 3 | 2023 | 969 | $805 | |
| 62 | Kohei Sambe | 1 | 2 | 2026 | 1046 | $650 |
| 63 | Daito Ono | 2 | 2025 | 1060 | $620 | |
| 64 | Manami Imaeda | 3 | 2026 | 1070 | $600 | |
| 65 | Sakura Aoi | 1 | 2025 | 1072 | $600 | |
| 66 | Tamito Watanabe | 2 | 2026 | 1074 | $600 | |
| 67 | Taisei Matsushita | 1 | 2 | 2025 | 1131 | $500 |
| 68 | Tomoki Omoda | 1 | 2 | 2026 | 1168 | $450 |
| 69 | Hitomi Edahiro | 2 | 2024 | 1171 | $445 | |
| 70 | Kenji Matsudaira | 2 | 2024 | 1176 | $440 | |
| 71 | Minami Ando | 1 | 2 | 2023 | 1183 | $425 |
| 72 | Jin Ueda | 3 | 2024 | 1186 | $420 | |
| 73 | I Ayano | 2 | 2024 | 1200 | $400 | |
| 74 | Soma Ono | 1 | 2025 | 1210 | $400 | |
| 75 | Mika Tamura | 1 | 2025 | 1228 | $370 | |
| 76 | Shunto Iwaida | 2 | 2025 | 1234 | $360 | |
| 77 | Kanta Tokuda | 2 | 2026 | 1237 | $350 | |
| 78 | Shogo Tahara | 1 | 2022 | 1295 | $300 | |
| 79 | Yuan Ito | 1 | 2025 | 1320 | $275 | |
| 80 | Aoto Asazu | 1 | 2025 | 1343 | $250 | |
| 81 | Chiko Fujita | 1 | 2026 | 1354 | $250 | |
| 82 | Keisuke Kiho | 1 | 2026 | 1382 | $250 | |
| 83 | Koyo Kanamitsu | 1 | 2025 | 1522 | $200 | |
| 84 | Kakeru Sone | 1 | 2023 | 1549 | $195 | |
| 85 | Yuma Tanigaki | 1 | 2022 | 1550 | $195 | |
| 86 | Hayato Miki | 2 | 2024 | 1552 | $190 | |
| 87 | Aoba Takahashi | 2 | 2025 | 1585 | $175 | |
| 88 | Miku Matsushima | 2 | 2025 | 1673 | $150 | |
| 89 | Yuki Matsuyama | 1 | 2022 | 1720 | $130 | |
| 90 | Kenyu Hiratsuka | 1 | 2025 | 1727 | $125 | |
| 91 | Sakurako Kagawa | 1 | 2025 | 1849 | $50 | |
| 92 | Ukyo Kobayashi | 1 | 2025 | 1856 | $50 | |
| 93 | Yuma Tsuboi | 1 | 2023 | 1861 | $50 |
Where Japan's money is concentrated
The biggest career hauls under the flag
Japan prize money by season
Every paid result folded into its year
$478k 22
$585k 23
$1.1m 24
$1.8m 25
$1.5m 26
season running total
Which tier of the tour pays Japan
The same money split by the kind of event
A federation that travels to the Grand Smashes and one that fills the Feeder draws can send the same number of players to the same number of events and come home with figures an order of magnitude apart. This is which of the two Japan is.
The events that pay Japan
Every stop on the calendar, by what it has paid out under this flag
The biggest weeks a Japan player has had
Single events, ranked by what they paid
| Player | Event | Draw | Round | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sora Matsushima | United States Smash 2026 | Men's Singles | Champion | $103,000 |
| Tomokazu Harimoto | WTT Finals Hong Kong 2025 | Men's Singles | Champion | $80,000 |
| Miwa Harimoto | WTT Champions Macao 2026 | Women's Singles | Champion | $60,000 |
| Miwa Harimoto | WTT Champions Chongqing 2026 | Women's Singles | Champion | $60,000 |
| Tomokazu Harimoto | Europe Smash - Sweden 2026 | Men's Singles | Finalist | $50,000 |
| Tomokazu Harimoto | United States Smash 2025 | Men's Singles | Finalist | $50,000 |
| Hayuma Abe | Singapore Smash 2026 | Men's Singles Class 8 | Finalist | $50,000 |
| Tomokazu Harimoto | WTT Cup Finals Xinxiang 2022 | Men's Singles | Finalist | $45,000 |
| Tomokazu Harimoto | WTT Champions Yokohama 2026 | Men's Singles | Champion | $40,000 |
| Tomokazu Harimoto | WTT Champions Yokohama 2025 | Men's Singles | Champion | $40,000 |
Where Japan sits among the federations
Ranked 2 of 112 on prize money won
| # | Federation | Players | Titles | Span | Prize money |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | China | 123 | 337 | 2022 to 2026 | $10,478,824$10.5m |
| 03 | South Korea | 99 | 127 | 2022 to 2026 | $3,321,238$3.3m |
| 04 | Germany | 40 | 27 | 2022 to 2026 | $2,758,293$2.8m |
| 05 | France | 65 | 57 | 2022 to 2026 | $2,564,824$2.6m |
| 06 | Chinese Taipei | 64 | 45 | 2022 to 2026 | $2,220,595$2.2m |
| 07 | Sweden | 29 | 18 | 2022 to 2026 | $1,605,135$1.6m |
| 08 | India | 96 | 38 | 2022 to 2026 | $1,153,840 |
| 09 | Brazil | 46 | 16 | 2022 to 2026 | $1,012,152 |
| 10 | Hong Kong | 27 | 25 | 2022 to 2026 | $906,573 |
| 11 | Romania | 21 | 2 | 2022 to 2026 | $890,912 |
| 12 | Egypt | 16 | 1 | 2022 to 2026 | $733,227 |
| 88 | Kuwait | 5 | 2024 to 2025 | $890 | |
| 89 | Lithuania | 2 | 2024 to 2026 | $750 | |
| 91 | Yemen | 2 | 2023 to 2024 | $605 | |
| 92 | Israel | 2 | 2024 to 2025 | $520 | |
| 93 | Barbados | 2 | 2024 | $460 | |
| 97 | Pakistan | 3 | 2022 to 2024 | $370 | |
| 98 | Jersey | 2 | 2023 to 2026 | $300 | |
| 99 | San Marino | 2 | 2024 to 2026 | $300 | |
| 104 | Maldives | 2 | 2024 | $235 |
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money have Japan's table tennis players won?
$5,551,003 between 2022 to 2026, across 93 players. That is 13.1% of everything the WTT tour has paid out and ranks Japan 2 of 112 federations.
Who is Japan's highest paid table tennis player?
Tomokazu Harimoto, $765,788 from 85 paid results and 18 titles.
How many WTT titles has Japan won?
255, across 68 different events.
What was Japan's best season on the tour?
2025, worth $1,808,394 from 569 paid results.
Which event pays Japan the most?
Singapore Smash, $650,617 across 94 paid results and 2 titles.
What is the biggest single payday a Japan player has had?
$103,000, to Sora Matsushima at the United States Smash 2026, where they won it in the men's singles.
Where to next
The players, the events and the federations around this one
Japan players
- Tomokazu Harimoto
- Miwa Harimoto
- Hina Hayata
- Sora Matsushima
- Mima Ito
- Satsuki Odo
- Shunsuke Togami
- Yukiya Uda
- Miyuu Kihara
- Miyu Nagasaki
- Hiroto Shinozuka
- Miu Hirano
- Honoka Hashimoto
- Kasumi Ishikawa
- Hitomi Sato
- Sakura Yokoi
- Maharu Yoshimura
- Yuta Tanaka
- Hayuma Abe
- Kazuki Hamada
- Mizuki Oikawa
- Sakura Mori
- Ryoichi Yoshiyama
- Saki Shibata
- Kaho Akae
- Asuka Sasao
- Sachi Aoki
- Kazuhiro Yoshimura
- Yuna Ojio
- Misuzu Takeya
- Masataka Morizono
- Satoshi Aida
- Yuhi Sakai
- Yuto Kizukuri
- Anne Uesawa
- Ryuusei Kawakami
- Haruna Ojio
- Jo Yokotani
- Kotomi Omoda
- Kyoka Idesawa
- Miyu Kato
- Yuka Kaneyoshi
- Rin Mende
- Hiromu Kobayashi
- Reina Aso
- Mao Takamori
- Cocona Muramatsu
- Takuya Jin
Events that pay Japan
- Singapore Smash
- WTT Champions Macao
- United States Smash
- WTT Champions Chongqing
- Europe Smash - Sweden
- China Smash
- WTT Champions Frankfurt
- WTT Champions Yokohama
- WTT Finals Hong Kong
- WTT Star Contender Ljubljana
- WTT Champions Montpellier
- Saudi Smash
- WTT Finals Fukuoka
- WTT Cup Finals Xinxiang
- WTT Star Contender Doha
- WTT Champions Incheon
- WTT Star Contender Chennai
- WTT Contender Tunis
- WTT Contender Zagreb
- WTT Star Contender Bangkok
- WTT Champions Xinxiang
- WTT Champions European Summer Series
- WTT Contender Almaty
- WTT Star Contender São José dos Campos
- WTT Champions Doha
- WTT Star Contender London
- WTT Star Contender Foz do Iguaçu
- WTT Contender Taiyuan
- WTT Finals Women Nagoya
- WTT Star Contender Muscat
- WTT Contender Skopje
- WTT Star Contender Goa
- WTT Contender Muscat
- WTT Contender Rio de Janeiro
- WTT Contender Panagyurishte
- WTT Contender Buenos Aires
- WTT Star Contender Lanzhou
- WTT Star Contender European Summer Series
- WTT Finals Men Doha
- WTT Contender Lagos