The 22-year-old beat Russia’s Pavel Kulizhnikov in the third last pairing and finished in 35.45sec at the Tomakomai Highland Sports Center.

It follows him securing his first ISU Speed Skating World Cup medal last week by coming third at another home event in Obihiro.

Kulizhnikov already lost time in the first 100m and eventually finished in 35.80 to end up sixth.

Behind Shinhama, his compatriot Yuma Murakami took the silver medal in 35.53, while world champion Jan Smeekens of The Netherlands grabbed the bronze medal in 35.58.

Despite ending up sixth, Kulizhnikov holds onto the World Cup lead with 152 points.

Shinhama is second with 144 points, while Norway’s Olympic champion Haavard Lorentzen, who finished 11^th today, is third with 138.

In the equivalent women’s event, Japan’s Nao Kodaira secured her 18^th World Cup gold medal in the 500m with a time of 38.03 in the penultimate pairing.

Austria’s Vanessa Herzog, the European champion, came second in 38.52 having started in the final pairing.  

She was 0.3 seconds faster than Russia’s Daria Kachanova, who ended up taking the bronze medal.

Behind Kodaira and Herzog, Russia’s Olga Fatkulina climbed to third in the World Cup rankings after finishing in fourth place in 38.83.

There was also success today for Japan in the women’s team pursuit.

Together with Ayano Sato, the Takagi sisters Miho and Nana handed Japan a ninth consecutive World Cup win in the event.

Japan, skating in the same line-up as in Obihiro, took on The Netherlands in the final pairing and they stopped the clock at 3:02.37. 

Canada's Ivanie Blondin, Isabelle Weidemann and Keri Morrison, who had come fourth in Obihiro, claimed the silver medal in 3:05.95 and jumped to joint second place in the World Cup rankings together with The Netherlands.

Russia’s Yevgenia Lalenkova, Natalya Voronina and Elizaveta Kazelina came away with the bronze medal in 3:06.69 and have dropped to fourth place in the rankings.

In the men’s team pursuit, The Netherlands came out on top in 3:45.87.

With world all-round champion Patrick Roest as their main engine, Marcel Bosker and Douwe de Vries set faster split times than Norway and Japan throughout the race to take the gold medal.

Olympic champions Norway, who were eyeing revenge for last week's defeat at the hands of gold medallists Russia and silver medallists The Netherlands, finished second in 3:47.15.

Their trio of Håvard Bøkko, Sverre Lunde Pedersen and Simen Spieler Nilsen edged out Japan’s Ryosuke Tsuchiya, Seitaro Ichinohe and Shane Williamson by 0.02 seconds in the penultimate pairing.

The Japanese did enough to take the bronze medal.

Action in Tomakomai is due to continue tomorrow.