SONE Akira

World Championships

Year	Location	+78 kg	Team X
2019	Tokyo, JPN	1	1
2018	Baku, AZE	-	1
2017	Budapest, HUN	-	1

Asian Games

Year	Location	+78 kg	Team X
2018	Indonesia	1	1

World Masters

Year	Location	+78 kg
2018	Guangzhou, CHN	1

Grand Slam - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	9th	16th	17th	30th-33rd
2021	+78 kg	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019	+78 kg	1x	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018	+78 kg	-	1x	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017	+78 kg	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Grand Prix - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	8th	9th	10th	15th-33rd
2019	+78 kg	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018	+78 kg	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017	+78 kg	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-

Grand Slam, Grand Prix & World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2021	+78 kg	Grand Slam	Tashkent, UZB
1	2019	+78 kg	Grand Slam	Osaka, JPN
1	2019	+78 kg	Grand Prix	Zagreb, CRO
1	2018	+78 kg	Grand Prix	Hohhot, CHN
2	2018	+78 kg	Grand Slam	Osaka, JPN
2	2017	+78 kg	Grand Slam	Tokyo, JPN
3	2019	+78 kg	Grand Slam	Paris, FRA
3	2018	+78 kg	Grand Slam	Paris, FRA
3	2017	+78 kg	Grand Prix	Dusseldorf, GER

World Junior Championships

Year	Location	+78 kg
2017	Zagreb, CRO	1

Student

Physical Education - International Pacific University , Okayama, JPN

Japanese

International Pacific University [Okayama, JPN]

Toshihiko Koga [club], JPN; Katsuyuki Masuchi [national], JPN

She took up judo at age seven in Kurume, Japan. (judo-ch.jp, 01 May 2017)

She was influenced by her father and her brother. (judo-ch.jp, 01 May 2017)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (chunichi.co.jp, 09 Dec 2019; hochi.news, 25 Nov 2019)

Her brother Masaru is her training partner. The pair have a training room at their house and complete their sessions after Masaru returns from work. (hochi.news, 25 Nov 2019; nikkansports.com, 24 Nov 2019)

Her brother Masaru. (dot.asahi.com, 03 Jan 2020; hochi.news, 25 Nov 2019)

"Triple effort." (sponichi.co.jp, 29 Jan 2020; dot.asahi.com, 03 Jan 2020)

In 2020 she was given the Nishinippon Sports Award by the Nishinippon Shimbun in Japan. (nishinippon.co.jp, 26 Jan 2020)

In 2020 she received the Okayama Sports Award in Japan. (msn.com, 06 Feb 2020)

In 2020 she was given a Special Award by the Kyushu Sports Journalists Club in Japan. (sanspo.com, 29 Jan 2020)

In 2019 she received the Okayama Prefecture Sports Special Award in Japan. (pref.okayama.jp, 11 Sep 2019)