The 2026 All Japan Championship International Open takes place November 18–23 at Amashin Archaic Hall Oct in Amagasaki, Japan. The 59th edition, featuring the Prince Tomohito Cup, will stage separate men’s 10-ball and women’s 9-ball competitions.
The tournament holds SG1 status, the highest grade on the JPBA calendar, making it an important event for the Japanese professional rankings.
Information checked November 6, 2026. Registered entries reflect the live JPBA list; Fargo Ratings are dated November 2.
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2026 All Japan Championship live stream
For live stream updates and match coverage, follow the JPBA official YouTube channel’s Streams page.
Individual broadcast links, featured tables and stream start times have not yet been verified for this guide. Check the channel’s listings for the announced broadcast schedule.
Tournament details
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Dates | November 18–23, 2026 |
| Venue | Amashin Archaic Hall Oct, Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan |
| Men’s event | 10-ball |
| Women’s event | 9-ball |
| 2025 men’s champion | 🇵🇭 Kyle Amoroto |
| 2025 women’s champion | 🇯🇵 Samia Konishi |
| Tables | Aplus Premier JPBA Edition |
The event is organized by the Japan Billiard Association (NBA) and the Japan Professional Pocket Billiard Association (JPBA), managed by JPBA West Japan, and sanctioned by the WPA and ACBS. Aplus Billiards is the main sponsor.
Schedule in Philippine time
The tournament runs from Wednesday, November 18, through Monday, November 23. The poster lists daily playing hours of 8:30 AM to 8:00 PM Philippine time, with the final day scheduled to finish at 7:00 PM.
In Japan, those hours are 9:30 AM to 9:00 PM, with an 8:00 PM finish scheduled for November 23. These are the advertised event hours, rather than a confirmed timetable for individual matches or broadcasts.
JPBA’s October 30 press release lists men’s Stage 1 on November 18, men’s Stage 2 from November 19–23, and the women’s competition from November 21–23.
Registered players
The official JPBA entry list, checked on November 6, contains 87 men and 40 women. These are registered entries, with the final draw still to be confirmed. Players entered only in the women’s amateur qualifiers are excluded from the tables below.
Fargo Ratings come from the November 2 entry charts published by Web CUE’S. Rated players appear first, followed by the remaining entrants in alphabetical order. A dash means a rating was not provided in those charts; the table order does not represent tournament seedings.
Sakura Muramatsu appeared in the November 2 chart but is now listed as cancelled by JPBA, so she is excluded from the registered field below.
Men’s 10-ball: 87 registered players
🇵🇭 AJ Manas has the second-highest rating in the published men’s chart at 808, behind 🇯🇵 Hayato Hijikata at 810. 🇵🇭 Antonio Lining, the 2000 champion, is also entered.
| Player | Country | Fargo Rating |
|---|---|---|
| Hayato Hijikata | 🇯🇵 Japan | 810 |
| AJ Manas | 🇵🇭 Philippines | 808 |
| Lo Li-wen | 🇹🇼 Chinese Taipei | 806 |
| Meynard Tipawan | 🇵🇭 Philippines | 799* |
| Antonio Lining | 🇵🇭 Philippines | 796 |
| Edward Sandjaja Ikhwan | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | 793* |
| Mark Estiola | 🇵🇭 Philippines | 783 |
| Koki Sugiyama | 🇯🇵 Japan | 773 |
| Tomoya Iima | 🇯🇵 Japan | 772 |
| Toru Kuribayashi | 🇯🇵 Japan | 770 |
| John Carlo Miraflor | 🇵🇭 Philippines | 770 |
| Yukio Akagariyama | 🇯🇵 Japan | 769 |
| Yoshihiro Kitatani | 🇯🇵 Japan | 768 |
| Aoi Kanazawa | 🇯🇵 Japan | 761 |
| Masato Yoshioka | 🇯🇵 Japan | 761 |
| Wang Ming | 🇨🇳 China | 761 |
| Satoshi Kawabata | 🇯🇵 Japan | 759 |
| Hiroshi Takenaka | 🇯🇵 Japan | 758 |
| Norio Ogawa | 🇯🇵 Japan | 757 |
| Takeshi Hayashi | 🇯🇵 Japan | 756 |
| Keishin Kamihashi | 🇯🇵 Japan | 754 |
| Katsuji Teruya | 🇯🇵 Japan | 753 |
| Kenichi Uchigaki | 🇯🇵 Japan | 752 |
| Jeong Young-hwa | 🇰🇷 South Korea | 751 |
| Yuichi Inagawa | 🇯🇵 Japan | 745 |
| Kunihiko Takahashi | 🇯🇵 Japan | 744 |
| Hirotaka Kihara | 🇯🇵 Japan | 744 |
| Kento Oda | 🇯🇵 Japan | 743 |
| Toshiyuki Wada | 🇯🇵 Japan | 742 |
| Hiroyuki Shozaki | 🇯🇵 Japan | 738 |
| Atsushi Inami | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Atsushi Suzuki | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Daizo Narumi | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Darren Fujimoto Carrido | Unconfirmed | – |
| Fan Yihe | 🇨🇳 China | – |
| Friedrich Rassi | 🇦🇹 Austria | – |
| Fu Lei | 🇨🇳 China | – |
| Hideki Yamakawa | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Hidetaka Kitatani | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Hiroto Matsumoto | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Hiroyoshi Kikukawa | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Janbert Josh Manas | 🇵🇭 Philippines | – |
| Julian Riegler | 🇦🇹 Austria | – |
| Justine Melo Baltazar | 🇬🇺 Guam | – |
| Kanji Tokoro | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Katsuyuki Takai | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Kazuhiro Aoyama | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Keita Kominato | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Kengo Saito | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Kenji Yasuhara | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Kenshiro Sakai | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Kiyoshi Suzuki | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Kiyotaka Ohashi | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Koichi Watabe | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Koji Miyatani | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Koji Ueda | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Kosuke Tojo | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Masaki Okada | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Masaru Miura | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Masato Asano | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Masato Matsuda | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Masayuki Sato | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Michiaki Kamata | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Michiya Abe | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Mitsutaka Sogabe | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Morris Chan Ho Chiu | 🇭🇰 Hong Kong | – |
| Ryoji Aoki | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Ryoko Onaga | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Ryota Tashiro | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Shigetaka Narita | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Shingo Ito | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Shinji Kishimoto | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Shintaro Saito | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Shuji Yamaoka | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Tadaomi Kimoto | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Tadasu Sugihara | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Takafumi Kawashima | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Takashi Uraoka | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Tasuku Nishio | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Toshiyuki Haraguchi | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Yohei Kohara | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Yoshihiro Kawakami | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Yoshihiro Morino | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Yoshiki Takagi | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Yuji Takagi | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Yusaku Nose | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Yusuke Kuroda | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
Defending champion 🇵🇭 Kyle Amoroto is not listed among the registered entrants in the entry list checked for this guide.
Women’s 9-ball: 40 registered players
🇯🇵 Chihiro Kawahara leads the published women’s rating chart at 751, followed by 🇨🇳 Huang Qingning at 736 and 🇰🇷 Jin Hye-ju at 725. Defending champion 🇯🇵 Samia Konishi is entered with a listed rating of 681.
| Player | Country | Fargo Rating |
|---|---|---|
| Chihiro Kawahara | 🇯🇵 Japan | 751 |
| Huang Qingning | 🇨🇳 China | 736 |
| Jin Hye-ju | 🇰🇷 South Korea | 725 |
| Jiang Teng | 🇨🇳 China | 713 |
| Gao Meng | 🇨🇳 China | 708 |
| Miyuki Kuribayashi | 🇯🇵 Japan | 699 |
| Lim Yun-mi | 🇰🇷 South Korea | 696 |
| Chie Aoki | 🇯🇵 Japan | 691 |
| Samia Konishi | 🇯🇵 Japan | 681 |
| Tamami Okuda | 🇯🇵 Japan | 673 |
| Akimi Kajitani | 🇯🇵 Japan | 667 |
| Yukiko Hamanishi | 🇯🇵 Japan | 667 |
| Asako Sato | 🇯🇵 Japan | 666 |
| Ayako Maruoka | 🇯🇵 Japan | 665 |
| Tomoko Kubota | 🇯🇵 Japan | 663 |
| Reiko Motohiro | 🇯🇵 Japan | 662 |
| Rieko Haji | 🇯🇵 Japan | 648 |
| Keiko Yukawa | 🇯🇵 Japan | 645 |
| Makiko Takagi | 🇯🇵 Japan | 635 |
| Nami Takada | 🇯🇵 Japan | 632 |
| Kimiko Yamauchi | 🇯🇵 Japan | 624 |
| Hiroko Sahara | 🇯🇵 Japan | 619 |
| Mari Fukawa | 🇯🇵 Japan | 617 |
| Kazuko Taniyama | 🇯🇵 Japan | 612 |
| Alice Oya | 🇯🇵 Japan | 600* |
| Mariko Niibo | 🇯🇵 Japan | 598 |
| Aiko Odasaki | 🇯🇵 Japan | 590 |
| Junko Tsuchiya | 🇯🇵 Japan | 588 |
| Junko Mitsuoka | 🇯🇵 Japan | 587 |
| Anzu Kurosawa | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Hiroe Tonami | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Joleen Soh | 🇸🇬 Singapore | – |
| Kaori Kuroda | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Kiyomi Mizoguchi | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Midori Matsumoto | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Naomi Inagawa | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Neo Yue Xuan | 🇸🇬 Singapore | – |
| Rika Miyamoto | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Ririka Wakae | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
| Yuko Miura | 🇯🇵 Japan | – |
An asterisk (*) marks a rating flagged as having insufficient reliability in the source charts. Darren Fujimoto Carrido’s country remains unconfirmed.
Women’s amateur qualifying events are scheduled for November 7 in the Kanto and Kansai regions.
Tickets and admission
Advance tickets are available through Ticket Pia using P-code 867932.
| Dates | Reserved | Unreserved |
|---|---|---|
| November 19–21 | ¥3,500 | ¥2,500 |
| November 22–23 | ¥4,500 | ¥3,500 |
Advance sales close on November 16 at 10:59 PM Philippine time, equivalent to 11:59 PM in Japan.
Ticket Pia lists free admission for high-school students and younger students, as well as visitors under 18, with identification required on the day. Unreserved ticket holders may have to stand.
The published ticket information covers November 19–23. Contact JPBA West Japan about admission arrangements for November 18.
Venue and official updates
Address: 2-7-16 Showa-dori, Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan. The venue is approximately a five-minute walk from Hanshin Amagasaki Station. Organizers ask spectators to avoid arriving by car. See the official venue access guide for directions.
For updated tournament announcements, draws and match schedules, check the JPBA event notice and the official entry page. The JPBA West Japan tournament office can be reached at +81 6-6777-2222.

