Miss Universe Japan (Japanese: ミス・ユニバース・ジャパン) is a national Beauty pageant in Japan to select an official candidate for the Miss Universe pageant.
Since 2018, the national director of Miss Universe Japan is Hiroko Mima.
Between 1952 and 1995 it was sponsored and run by Asahi Broadcasting Corporation.
The sponsorship ended in 1995 and after a 2-year hiatus, French businesswoman Ines Ligron seized the business opportunity and established a company to operate the pageant as Miss Universe Japan.
Ligron was catapulted to the international spotlight when Riyo Mori won the second Miss Universe crown for Japan in 2007.