Japan can at least qualify more than one lady at GPF. With a good draw even 3 girls is not that impossible. Yes it will be hard anyway, but a good draw can help. Since there is only 3 girls for the moment who are really above on potential scoring.
And Skate America is not as hard as Skate Canada. Home skaters are overscored but non-american skaters are not as scored as harsh as at Skate Canada.
I wouldn’t suggest sending them to Rostelecom Cup either but at least Wakaba still scored well into the 200’s there. Without Caro last season she had a pretty easy silver medal but Caro was there....it all worked out in the end though Masha was clean and had like her lowest score of the season at Skate Canada. Pretty much lost 15pts from there to France with very similar performances. I’d probably say the safest events to avoid the dicey judging is SA, China, or France. Ironically NHK isn’t always a friendly event for home skaters. It’s no disadvantage but I’d expect more generous judging at somewhere like Skate America. I think Wakaba has a lot of fans in Russia but I still think Rostelecom and Skate Canada are the events to avoid if at all possible.