The women, with skip Sayaka Yoshimura, third Kaho Onodera, second Anna Ohmiya and Yumie Funayama, defeated South Korea 6-5.

In the opening end of the women’s final, Japan pulled off a corner guard and gave up a steal of one.

Then, in the third end, Yoshimura made a perfect draw to the four-foot to score a single, 1-1.

Korea’s Eun-Jung Kim made a hit for three points in the fifth end to take a 4-2 lead.

Japan had a strong second half of the game, scoring a total of four points against South Korea’s single point in the ninth end.

Finally, in a tense tenth end, Yoshimura, with the help of perfect sweeping from her teammates, made two perfect draws to win, 6-5.

"We are so happy to win the last Pacific-Asia Curling Championships!" said Yoshimura.

"Due to the result we believe in our performance in the future and in this game we were down against our opponent but we overcame in the last end.

"Now we can feel our good performance and believe in ourselves and our goal.

"I threw the draw for my first shot in the last end and we communicated with each team member about the weight, the feeling, the timing and the line.

"Then we confirmed this for my second draw and we made the final shot!"

Both teams qualify for the Women's World Curling Championship 2022 in Prince George in Canada.

In the men's game, skip Kim Chang-min, third Kim Soo-hyuk, second Jeon Jae-ik and lead Kim Hak-kyun avenged their female counterparts to lead South Korea to a 9-5 victory over Japan.

Japan skip Yusuke Morozumi opened the game with a controlled take-out for two points in the first end.

In the third end Japan attempted a raise double take-out for two, but missed it and gave up a steal of one to level the game 2-2.

Following that, a steal of three points came for South Korea in the fourth end after Japan missed a raise take-out to go down 5-3.

South Korea continued to dominate the match and went on to win 9-5 after eight ends.

"I am so happy because my teammates played so well and I am so proud of them," said Kim Chang-min.

"We struggled with the ice before and in today’s game I struggled in the early ends.

"Japan played so well [throughout the week] but not this time – they didn’t play well – so that’s why we won."

The victory secures South Korea's spot at the World Men's Curling Championship 2022 in Las Vegas while Japan and Chinese Taipei have earned places at the World Qualification Event 2022.

Chinese Taipei beat Kazakhstan 9-8 earlier in the day to claim the men's bronze medal.