Akane Shiga plays for Obihiro in the Smile League. She scored Japan's only goal against Switzerland in their game August 26th, and two out of three against Finland on August 29th. Source.
The 2022 Women's World Championship is going on in Denmark. Normally there would be no Women's Worlds in a Winter Olympics year, but the IIHF changed the rule.
Group A consists of Canada, USA, Switzerland, Finland and Japan. Group B are the Czech Republic, Sweden, Hungary, Denmark and Germany. Sweden are here in place of Russia who were kicked out.
It’s highly significant that nobody on the Canadian and US squads plays in the Premier Hockey Federation, the only women’s pro hockey league in North America. Seven players at the Worlds do play in the PHF, but they’re all from Europe.
Let's follow Japan who so far are having a hard time against the US and Canada. And the Finns.
Preliminary Round:
2022/8/25 Japan 0 - 10 USA
2022/8/26 Switzerland 3 - 1 Japan
2022/8/28 Japan 0 - 9 Canada
2022/8/29 Finland 9 - 3 Japan
QF:
2022/9/1 [Switzerland 2 - 1] Japan
5th to 8th place SF:
2022/9/3 [Sweden 4 - 5 Japan]
[Japan finish in fifth place.]
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