Japanese Wrestling Legends Bull Nakano and Akira Hokuto

Japanese Wrestling Legends Bull Nakano and Akira Hokuto.
Did you know that before she started wrestling, Akira organized the Bull Nakano fanclub?
And that she took the name Akira in honor of Akira Maeda, who was a Japanese wrestling promoter, professional wrestler and MMA pioneer?
Also that both women wrestled in the WCW?

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Hana Kimura and Tam Nakano - Japanese Womens Wrestling

Here are some pictures of Japanese female wrestlers Hana Kimura and Tam Nakano

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Japanese Female Wrestling: Neo News

Tamura Yoshiko, NWA Women's Pacific and NEO-certified Qualified Singles champion

NEO seems to be moving along with their wrestling organization, even though Joshi in general seems to have taken a dip in popularity.

They have four wrestling events listed on their website as upcoming in August.
Two Summer Night Fire 09 events at Itabashi Green Hall (August 8th and 15th) , a NEO Show House at West Park General Gymnasium Hitachi Omiya, Ibaraki ( August 16th) and NEO STRONG HOLD IN JAPAN ( August 29th) at the Osaka Prefectural Sports Center Stadium.

The Roster includes...
Tamura Yoshiko, NWA Women's Pacific and NEO-certified Qualified Singles champion
Inoue Kyouko and Matsumoto Hiroyo NEO Tag Team champions
Mita Etsuko, who will be retiring in November
Tunney Mouse
Princess Miyazaki Tamotsu
Aya courage
Nagisa Nozaki
What NOZOMI
Nakamura Yuka
Shiina Yuka
Satoshi Misa
Matsuo Forever

Mima Shimoda versus Akira Hokuto

A while back I mentioned some really good Japanese professional women wrestling matches on YouTube, well here is one from Veoh posted by shupercousin.
It's a match between Mima Shimoda and Akira Hokuto from August 30th, 1995.
Mima Shimoda, Etsuko Mita and Akira had once formed a group called "Las Cachorras Orientoles" or LCO in AJW, but this looks like it too place after all that was over.


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DASH Chisako, Hiren and Ryo Mizunami

DASH Chisako (Chisako Kanari) was born on August 24th, 1988 in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.
She made her pro wrestling debut against Dynamite Kansai on July 9th, 2006.
DASH wrestles for the SENDAI GIRLS wrestling promotion in Japan.
Here is a wrestling video of Dash Chisako going up against Kaoru Ito from a Sendai versus Ito Dojo Show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOBK8PIgZmE


Hiren (Yurie Kaneko) was born on January 16th, 1986 in Katsushika City, Tokyo, Japan.
She made her pro wrestling debut on July 9th, 2006, wrestling Mariko Yoshida.
Hiren also wrestles for the SENDAI GIRLS wrestling promotion in Japan.
Her is a video of Hiren wrestling Commando Bolshoi at a JWP versus Sendai show in Japan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHOQVt06_T0


Ryo Mizunami (Ayane Mizumura) was born on March 24th, 1988 in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
She made her pro wrestling debut on November 3rd, 2004 against Carlos Amano.
Ryo has wrestled for GAEA and SENDAI GIRLS in Japan.
This is a video of Ryo Mizunami wrestling Hiroyo Matsumoto at the Jaja Uma Tournament Finals in Japan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18MDBFCXB_s

Kaori Yoneyama

Kaori Yoneyama is a female Japanese wrestler.
She was born on February 26th, 1981 in Zushi-shi, Kanagawa, Japan.
She made her pro wrestling debut on November 11th, 1999 against Kayoko Haruyama.
Her favorite wrestling moves are the Diving Senton, the German Suplex and the Shiranui (a springboard backflip three-quarter facelock falling reverse DDT) .
She has worked for the JWP, LLPW, Jd ', NEO, IWA Japan, Japan, Shinjuku and Al-Zion promotions.
Kaori has held the JWP Tag Championship,the JWP Junior Championship and the Japan Tag Championship with Fang Leon.

Here is a video on YouTube of Kaori wrestling Carlos Amano from Oz Academy's White Rose.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieMSX1NaEEo

Kyoko Kimura

The young lady with the 'fro is Japanese female wrestler Kyoko Kimura.
She made her pro wrestling debut on July 20th, 2003.
Kyoko has wrestled for the BJW, JD Star, NEO, BattlARTS and IBUKI promotions in Japan.
She held the NEO Tag Team Wrestling Championships twice. Once with TNA star Awesome Kong and again with Emi Sakura.
Kyoko seems to have a growing fanbase in the US.

Miko Nishio

Miko Nishio is/was a Japanese female wrestler.
She was born on December 12 1981.
Miko made her pro wrestling debut on September 30 2000, wrestling Terashita.
She worked for AJW and the OZ Academy promotions in Japan.
While she was with AJW, she won the AJW Championship, but had to vacate it when she left AJW.
Due to an injury, she went to a valet role in Oz.

Here is a video of her wrestling Carlos Amano I found on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hTOPEoED7Y

Japanese Female Pro Wrestler Cherry

This deceptively cute and delicate looking lady is Japanese female pro wrestler Cherry.
She might look fragile, but inside the ring she can give as good as she takes.
Cherry has wrestled for the NEO and IBUKI promotions in Japan.

Here is a video of Cherry wrestling Rei at the Pro Wrestling NEO produced 4th Junior All Stars, "The Dream & Future" show on December 31, 2006 in Tokyo Korakuen Hall.
It's a really good match.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcbdyhIoTcA

Yuko Motohashi

Yuko Motohashi is a Japanese female wrestler.
She was born on March 17, 1985 in Shizuoka City, Shizuoka, Japan.
Her pro wrestling debut was May 8, 2007 against Mariko Yoshida.
Yuko wrestles for IBUKI Pro Wrestling in Japan.

Japanese Female Wrestler: Tomoka Nakagawa

Next up on my Japanese female wrestlers list is Tomoka Nakagawa.
She was born on September 29th, 1981, in Asahikawa Hokkaido, Japan
Tomoka's pro wrestling debut was on January 23rd, 2005 with Yuu Yamagata against TAKA Michinoku and Ryota Chikuzen.
She is currently wrestling for Mariko Yoshida's IBUKI wrestling promotion.
Before that, she wrestled for Kaientai Dojo (K-Dojo).

Here's a video of Tomoka taking on Etsuko Mita posted by CaptainCharisma0 on YouTube

Misae Genki - Japanese Women Wrestling

Misae Genki was born Misae Watanabe, on February 14 1973.
She is a professional Japanese female wrestler
Her pro wrestling debut was August 28 1994, teamed with Kumiko Maekawa against Rie Tamada and Yoko Takahashi.
She has worked for the AJW, Neo Ladies and NEO wrestling promotions.
Misae has announced she will retire at the end of this year.

Here is a link to a video I found on YouTube of Misae Genki wrestling Tomoka Nakagawa this year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gkyicym11M

Kyoko Okada

Kyoko Okada was a Japanese female wrestler.
On September 1, 1968, she and Miyuki Yanagi won the American Girls' Wrestling Association International Tag Team Title in Tokyo, Japan.
They lost the titles, but on April 10, 1969, Kyoko and Aiko Kyo won the titles back in Hiroshima.
Some places list Aiko Kyo and Kyoko Okada as the first WWWA world tag champions.
Kyoko was also the All Japan Middleweight Wrestling champion at one time.
She retired from the wrestling ring in 1971.


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Japanese female wrestler from Mongolia, Esui.

Japanese female wrestler from Mongolia, Esui.
She was born May 9, 1985.
Esui wrestles for Mariko Yoshida's organization IBUKI.

Japanese female wrestler, Ayana Mizumura.

Japanese female wrestler, Ayana Mizumura.
In her wrestling career, she has faced many of the great Japanese female wrestlers such as Jaguar Yakota, Dynamite Kansai, Carlos Amano, Chigusa Nagayo.
Ayana Mizumura retired from wrestling April 10, 2005 at the GAEA final card in Kourakuen Hall.

Aya Yuki

Aya Yuki is a Japanese womens wrestler.

Here's a video of her in action, wrestling Arisa Nakajima
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miaj9AgIWkE

And another of her, teamed with Nagisa Nozaki, wrestling Arisa Nakajima and Kaori Oki.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPztrbfznWE

Miyoko Nakayama

Miyoko Nakayama was born October 10 1950. She was better known under her wrestling name, Miyoko Hoshino
Miyoko worked for the AJW promotion her entire career
She defeated Sarah Lee for the WWWA Singles title on July 26 1972. She lost it to Sandy Parker, but won it back before finally dropping the title to Jumbo Miyamoto.
Miyoko then turned around and won the WWWA Tag Team Wrestling titles three times with Jumbo Miyamoto.
After losing the titles, she teamed with Peggy Kuroda and won them a fourth time.

Miyoko was inducted into the AJW Hall of Fame on November 29, 1998 at the Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Japan.

Apple Miyuki - Japanese Wrestling

Japanese female wrestler Apple Miyuki (Rumi Miyuki), was born on June 14th, 1985 in Tenri, Nara, Japan.
She was a wrestler for Japanese professional wrestling promotion Kaientai Dojo and was one of their most popular wrestlers.
Apple was trained by Taka Michinoku and made her pro wrestling debut on January 14th, 2002, in Puerto Rico against another K-Dojo wrestler, Ofune.
So far Apple has held the WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship twice with YOSHIYA, and they won the K-AWARD for Best Tag Match of 2005.
On September 10th, 2008, Apple announced that she was leaving K-Dojo and her final show was September 14th at Korakuen Hall.
She started working for other Japanese wrestling promotions like Pro Wrestling WAVE in 2009.

Apple Miyuki and Yuu Yamagata taking on KAORU and Caribbean Rum.

Japan's formidable women's wrestlers

Chiharu Icho

Saori Yoshida

This isn't pro wrestling, but it is wrestling....

Japan's formidable women's wrestlers launched their Olympics campaign in convincing style as world champions Saori Yoshida and Chiharu Icho reached the 55kg and 48kg finals Saturday.
Defending 55kg holder Yoshida overwhelmed Canada's Tonya Verbeek 2-0 in the semi-finals, a rematch of their final clash at the Athens Games four years ago, to face China's 18-year-old Xu Li in the gold-medal showdown later in the day.
http://www.rte.ie/sport/olympics2008/2008/0816/wrestling.html

Carlos Amano, updated

Carlos Amano
Born: March 16 1976
Weight: 134.2lbs (61kg)
Height: 5' 2" (158cm)
Real Name: Rieko Amano
Professional wrestling debut: December 4 1994 against Tomoko Miyaguchi
Promotions: JWP, Oz Academy

Wrestling Title History
January 15 1999 - With Commando Bolshoi won the JWP Tag Team titles from Hikari Fukuoka and Tomoko Kuzumi. Lost them on February 10 2000 to ZAP I & ZAP T.
On February 24, 1999 JWP changed Amano's name from 'Rieko Amano' to 'Carlos Amano'
On August 10, 1996, Amano lost to Tomoko Kuzumi in the tournament final to crown a new JWP Junior champion.
JWP named the Hikari Fukuoka & Tomoko Kuzumi vs. Rieko Amano & Tomoko Miyaguchi match on October 21 as their 1998 match of the year.

Manami Toyota vs Reiko "Carlos" Amano
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzAy7AoASX8