SHIDOCHI, INOUE NAMED TO WOMEN’S WORLD TEAM FOR ISTANBUL

TOKYO (June 25) – Nineteen-year-old newcomer Mareka Shidochi and Asia champion Yoshiko Inoue were named to the Japanese women's squad for the world championships in Istanbul this fall.

Shidochi, winner of the Junior Queens Cup crown in April, will make her senior national team debut at 51kg in September after an initiation to international competition at the junior world championships in July.

Inoue, meanwhile, will be making her third trip to the world championships at 67kg and her first since finishing fifth at the world meet in 2009. Although finishing second at the all-Japan invitational, Inoue was selected ahead winner Sara Dosho on the strength of her performance in training camps and her triumph at the Asia championships in May.