is a Japanese

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player and member of the Japanese national team, currently playing in the Swiss

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(SWHL A) with Ladies Team Lugano.

International play

As a

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player with the Japanese national under-18 team, she participated in the

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Top Division tournaments in

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and

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, and the Division I tournament in

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. In 2017, she served as national team

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and was selected by the coaches as a top-three player on the team. Shiga made her national senior team debut at the

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, where she was the youngest player representing Japan and the second-youngest player competing in the tournament (the youngest was

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of Czechia). The following year, she competed in the 2017 IIHF Women's World Championship Division I Group A tournament, once again as the youngest player on the team. She was a member of the Japanese delegation at the

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and played in the women's ice hockey tournament, in which Japan claimed sixth place. Shiga has participated in the Top Division tournament of every

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since playing in the 2019 tournament. She recorded her first point with the senior national team at the

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, earning the secondary assist on a goal scored by her sister, Akane Shiga, against in the preliminary round. Her first senior national team goal was scored against in the preliminary round of the

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, assisted by Haruka Toko and Akane Shiga. The coaches named her as a top-three player for Japan in both 2021 and 2022. She represented

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in the women's ice hockey tournament at the

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, recording three assists in five games.

Personal life

Her younger sister,

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, is also an ice hockey player, a

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, with the Japanese national ice hockey team and

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Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

References

External links

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Aoi Shiga
at the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shiga, Aoi 1999 births Living people Japanese women's ice hockey defencemen Olympic ice hockey players for Japan Ice hockey players at the 2018 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 2022 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 2025 Asian Winter Games Swiss Women's League players Ice hockey people from Hokkaido Japanese expatriate ice hockey people Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Expatriate ice hockey players in Switzerland 21st-century Japanese sportswomen Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Asian Games medalists in ice hockey Medalists at the 2025 Asian Winter Games