The Japanese women's ice hockey team qualified for next year's Pyeongchang Olympics on Sunday with a 3-1 victory over Germany.
Moeko Fujimoto, Shoko Ono and Hanae Kubo scored for Japan, which qualified for its first sport at Pyeongchang next February. Smile Japan will make its second successive Winter Games appearance in hockey and its third overall counting the 1998 Nagano Olympics.
With Sunday's win in Hokkaido, Japan topped Group D with nine points from three games. Germany, which made it a 2-1 contest late in the second period through Tanja Eisenschmid's goal, ended up second with five.