The Crush Gals, Lioness Asuka and Chigusa Nagayo

Legendary Japanese female wrestling tag team, The Crush Gals,  Lioness Asuka and Chigusa Nagayo.

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Hana Kimura - Female Japanese Wrestling

This is the daughter of famous female Japanese wrestler and MMA fighter Kyoko Kimura, Hana Kimura.
Hana made her professional wrestling debut in March 2016.

Kairi Hojo Becomes Kairi Sane in the WWE

The WWE has confirmed that Japanese women's wrestler Kairi Hojo, will now be Kairi Sane in the WWE.
She is also confirmed for the Mae Young Tournament.

Santana Garrett, Kairi Hojo and Laurel Van Ness

Kairi Hojo Coming to WWE

When I did the write up on Japanese female wrestler "Pirate Princess" Kairi Hojo back in 2015, I knew she was good.
Since then, Dave Meltzer (Wrestling Observer Newsletter) said that Kairi, along with Io Shirai and Mayu Iwatani were "three of the best wrestlers in the world".
And now Kairi has been signed by the WWE to a three year contract.
So get ready to see more Kairi...except here in the US.

Mimi Hagiwara and Jaguar Yokota taking on Devil Masami and Tarantula

Here is a video of  Mimi Hagiwara and Jaguar Yokota taking on Devil Masami and Tarantula (Wild Kazuki).
This match is from January 4th, 1983 and took place at the Korakuen Hall in Japan.
Devil Masami and Tarantula were the WWWA World Tag Team Champions.

Watching this video I realized that I had forgotten just how strong Devil was.
I really think that she could have won the match alone.

She pretty much brutalizes Mimi and Jaguar both.

Jungle Kyona vs Natsumi Maki - Japanese Wrestling

Here are some pictures of Jungle Kyona taking on Natsumi Maki at a Stardom event at the Shin-Kiba 1st Ring arena in Tokyo, Japan.
Kyona won.

You find out more about Stardom at their Facebook page here:
https://www.facebook.com/StardomJoshiPuroresu/

Hibiscus Mii - Japanese Female Wrestling

Hibiscus Mii is a Japanese female wrestler that works for the Ryukyu Dragon Pro Wrestling promotion.
If you have followed Joshi you may know her by another name...Apple Miyuki.
Although she has also wrestled as Cosmic Warrior Justine and Miyuki Matsuyama.
She was trained by Japanese wrestler (and MMA fighter) Taka Michinoku, and made her debut on January 14th, 2002.
The "The Sadistic Princess" uses a move called the Apple Buster as her finishing move, which is a Spinning headlock elbow drop.

Old School Japanese Female Wrestling

Here we have some old pictures from female Japanese wrestling matches in the past.

Aiko Iwamoto vs Keiko Yamada

Katsue Sasaki vs Kiyo Obata

Mach Fumiake vs Irma Gonzalez

Princess War Star laying into Mach Fumiake

Jaguar Yokota - Japanese Lady Wrestlers

You know I have done quite a few write ups on Japanese female wrestler Jaguar Yokota since I started this blog.
But I didn't realize that back in the day...she was kinda hot.
Of course "hot" is not her claim to fame.
Jaguar is considered one of the greatest female wrestlers of all time, and one of the greatest wrestlers ever...period.

During her career Jaguar (Rimi Yokota) held the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling Championship, the AJW Junior Championship, the WWWA World Heavyweight Championship twice, the WWWA World Tag Team Championship and was put in the AJW Hall of Fame in 1998.
In JDStar she held the AWF World Women's Championship, the TWF World Women's Championship and the TWF World Tag Team Championship.
She held the Universal Wrestling Association World Women's Championship, the World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana World Tag Team Championship and in 1996, she was inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame.



You can see the other articles about Jaguar here:
http://joshipuroresu.blogspot.com/2009/08/japanese-female-wrestling-jaguar-yokota.html
http://joshipuroresu.blogspot.com/2007/04/jaguar-yokota.html
http://joshipuroresu.blogspot.com/2007/01/jaguar-yokota.html

Mimi Hagiwara - Japanese Female Wrestling

Well on this blog, Natsu Sumire, Michiko Omukai, Devil Masami and other Japanese female wrestlers are popular, but none of them are as popular as Mimi Hagiwara.

She started out as a model and an actress before she became a wrestler.
Mimi was trained by Jackie Sato and went on to become one of the most popular Japanese women wrestlers ever.

Mimi was remarkable in she would take a beating in a match like a true Jobber, but then come back to win even after it looked like she had taken all she could.
During her career she was the All Pacific Champion twice and held the WWWA Tag Team Championship with Yukari Omori.

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Makoto - Japanese Female Wrestlers

Makoto was born on September 26th, 1989 in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.
She is five foot four and weighs 114 pounds.

Makoto made her pro wrestling debut on July 25th, 2006 at Sakura Hall in Japan.
She has worked for Japanese wrestling promotions like Ice Ribbon, Smash, Wrestling New Classic and Reina.

Makoto has held the ICE×60 Championship, the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship twice, once with Etsuko Mita and once with Emi Sakura.
She held the WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship with Bambi, the WNC Women's Championship and she has held the Reina World Tag Team Championship three times, with Kaho Kobayashi, Ariya and Rina Yamashita.

Tsubasa Kuragaki - Japanese Women Wrestling

This is female Japanese wrestler Tsubasa Kuragaki.
Although I have mentioned her before, I haven't really done anything on her.


Tsubasa was born on December 7th, 1975 in Chiba City, Kamagaya, Japan.
She's five foot three, 140 pounds and she made her pro wrestling debut either January 8th, 1995 or October 21st, 1998.
I've seen two different accounts.


She has wrestled almost exclusively for JWP (Japan Women Project), but she has also done some freelance work as well.
During her career so far, she has held the JWP Openweight Championship, the JWP Tag Team Championship (once with AKINO and twice with Kayoko Haruyama), the Daily Sports Tag Team Championship (twice with Kayoko Haruyama), the JWP Jr. Championship and the NEO Singles and NWA Women’s Pacific Championship.

Here is Tsubasa wrestling Ran Yu-Yu for JWP on July 27th, 2008, posted on YouTube by kapengmabula (with credit to nagashimark)





Tsubasa Kuragaki - Japanese Women Wrestling, posted to http://joshipuroresu.blogspot.com/ on February 3rd, 2011

Eight Woman Tag Team Match - Japanese Women Wrestling

Here is a eight woman tag team match posted by kapengmabula on YouTube.
It's Japanese women wrestlers Ayumi Kurihara, Mio Shirai, Io Shirai and Makoto taking on Mima Shimoda, Kyoko Kimura, Atsuko Emoto and Tomoka Nakagawa at a NEO event.

First we have a little video background leading up to the match, then Mima, Kyoko, Atsuko and Tomoka come to the ring already armed with folding chairs and chains.

Then Ayumi, Mio, Io and Makoto come in...unarmed.

The intros start but never finish as it immediately turns into what "Good Ole JR" would call a pier six brawl.

The action comes back into the ring and normalcy is restored for a moment and it looks like the match will go on like a normal contest.
But not for long...

Pretty soon everyone is back in the ring and going at it again.

Somewhat unusually.

Mima gets upset by a slow count....

...and finally a team turns on one of it's members.

You can see this video and more like it at kapengmabula's YouTube channel here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/kapengmabula

Eight Woman Tag Team Match - Japanese Women Wrestling, posted to http://joshipuroresu.blogspot.com/ on September 26th, 2010

KAZUKI, Keito and Pinky Mayuka

KAZUKI (Kazuko Fujiwara) is a Japanese female wrestler.
She was born in Okayama Japan on December 25th, 1975.
KAZUKI made her pro wrestling debut on May 26th, 1997 wrestling Masami Iizuka.
Her signature wrestling move is the K-Crusher (Hard Neckbreaker) .
She has wrestled for Yoshimoto Pro Jd' and JWP.
KAZUKI is five foot one and weighs 148 pounds.

Keito (Keiko Aono),was born on April 8th, 1973 in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan.
She made her pro wrestling debut on February 10th, 1975 against Leo Kitamura.
Her signature wrestling move is a modified Shubain (Side Brainbuster Driver).
She has wrestled for LLPW and JWP.
Keito is five foot four, 154 pounds and now uses the name Keiko Aono.


Pinky Mayuka (Mayuka Niizeki) was born on January 16th, 1992 in Ota Ward, Tokyo, Japan.
She made her pro wrestling debut against Arisa Nakajima on December 9th, 2007.
Pinky has wrestled for JWP since she started.
She retired in December of 2009 because of asthma and other health issues.