2012 Japan Super Series

The 2012 Japan Super Series was the eighth super series tournament of the 2012 BWF Super Series in badminton. The tournament was held in Tokyo, Japan, from 18 to 23 September 2012 and had a total purse of $200,000. Draw was released on 4 September 2012. China withdrew all its players from this tournament because of safety fears.

Seeds

 * 1)  Lee Chong Wei (champion)
 * 2)  Peter Gade (first round)
 * 3)  Simon Santoso (semifinals)
 * 4) 🇯🇵 Sho Sasaki (second round)
 * 5) 🇯🇵 Kenichi Tago (first round)
 * 6)  Jan Ø. Jørgensen (first round)
 * 7)  Taufik Hidayat (quarterfinals)
 * 8)  Nguyen Tien Minh (quarterfinals)

Seeds

 * 1)  Tine Baun (quarterfinals)
 * 2) 🇰🇷 Sung Ji-hyun (semifinals)
 * 3) 🇹🇭 Ratchanok Inthanon (quarterfinals)
 * 4) 🇰🇷 Bae Youn-joo (quarterfinals)
 * 5)  '''Tai Tzu-ying (champion)
 * 6) 🇹🇭 Porntip Buranaprasertsuk (semifinals)
 * 7)  Gu Juan (first round)
 * 8) 🇯🇵 Ai Goto (quarterfinals)

Seeds

 * 1)  Mathias Boe / Carsten Mogensen (second round)
 * 2)  Koo Kien Keat / Tan Boon Heong (final)
 * 3) 🇯🇵 Hiroyuki Endo / Kenichi Hayakawa (quarterfinals)
 * 4) 🇯🇵 Hirokatsu Hashimoto / Noriyasu Hirata (quarterfinals)
 * 5) 🇯🇵 Naoki Kawamae / Shoji Sato (quarterfinals)
 * 6) 🇹🇭 Bodin Issara / Maneepong Jongjit (first round)
 * 7) 🇰🇷 Kim Gi-jung / Kim Sa-rang (champion)
 * 8)  Hoon Thien How / Tan Wee Kiong (semifinals)

Seeds

 * 1) 🇯🇵 Mizuki Fujii / Reika Kakiiwa (second round)
 * 2) 🇨🇳 Bao Yixin / Zhong Qianxin (withdrew)
 * 3) 🇯🇵 Miyuki Maeda / Satoko Suetsuna (semifinals)
 * 4) 🇯🇵 Shizuka Matsuo / Mami Naito (final)
 * 5) 🇯🇵 Misaki Matsutomo / Ayaka Takahashi (second round)
 * 6) 🇰🇷 Eom Hye-won / Jang Ye-na (quarterfinals)
 * 7) 🇭🇰 Poon Lok Yan / Tse Ying Suet (champion)
 * 8) 🇹🇭 Duanganong Aroonkesorn / Kunchala Voravichitchaikul (quarterfinals)

Seeds

 * 1)  Chan Peng Soon / Goh Liu Ying (champions)
 * 2) 🇯🇵 Shintaro Ikeda / Reiko Shiota (semi-finals)
 * 3) 🇯🇵 Shoji Sato / Shizuka Matsuo (second round)
 * 4) 🇹🇭 Maneepong Jongjit / Savitree Amitrapai (second round)
 * 5)  Muhammad Rijal / Lilyana Natsir (final)
 * 6) 🇹🇭 Songphon Anugritayawon / Kunchala Voravichitchaikul (second round)
 * 7) 🇨🇳 Tao Jiaming / Bao Yixin (withdrew)
 * 8)  Chen Hung-ling / Wu Ti-jung (second round)