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The Japanese wrestling promotion Stardom's Heel Stable, Queen's Quest (Viper, Io Shirai, HZK, Momo Watanabe, AZM).
The stable debuted on April 12th, 2016 when Jungle Kyona, Kairi Hojo and Mayu Iwatani took on HZK, Io Shirai and Momo Watanabe.
As far as I can tell, HZM was added in 2017 and Viper in 2018.
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Here are some pictures of Old School Japanese female wrestlers.
The vintage female wrestlers seem to be very popular on my other wrestling blogs so I thought I would give them a try here and see how everyone liked them.
Japanese pro wrestler Makoto.
Makoto was born September on 26th, 1989 in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.
She was trained by Emi Sakura and made her wrestling debut for the Ice Ribbon promotion in July 2006.
Makoto is a former one time Reina World Women's Champion and a two time Reina World Tag Team Champion.
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.
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.
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.
"When in doubt, post Kana".
Here is Kana on the receiving end of what appears to be a pretty stiff kick from Syuri.
And that's Makoto looking on in the background.
These three have had some pretty wild times in the ring in Japan and they are still going at it.
By the way, in case you didn't know, Syuri is 11-0-0 in Pro Kickboxing.
So she knows how to kick.
OZ Academy 263 (Country of OZ 2012) has been posted online at YouTube and it's great. My favorite match on it is a match that sounds like any Joshi fan's dream. Mio Shirai, Yumi Ohka and Mayumi Ozaki taking on Tomoka Nakagawa, Tsubasa Kuragaki and Manami Toyota.
The sad thing is that this wasn't the main event match so they really didn't go all out. Just looking at the line up though, you would expect this to be the main event anywhere.
Well she might be.
This five foot four, 125 pound lady from Misawa, Aomori, Japan was born on November 13th, 1986.
She has not been going at this long, having only made her pro wrestling debut in February of 2012.
This young lady overcame a lot to get to where she is today.
You can find out just how much as this article here
I haven't seen a great deal of her matches, but what I have seen I like.
And she has that "something" that you cant just learn.
Act may be one to watch in the coming years.
Stardom 5STAR Grand Prix: Act Yasukawa vs. Yuzuki Aikawa
I havent done anything on the lovely Arisa Nakajima in a while, so here's an update.
Arisa was born on April 6th, 1989 in Chichibu, Saitama, Japan, the same city that famous Japanese pro wrestler Akira Taue is from.
After training with the Major Girl's Fighting AtoZ promotion for a little over a year, she made her wrestling debut on January 3rd, 2006, against Mika Mizunuma in Korakuen Hall.
She has worked for Major Girl's Fighting AtoZ, JWP Joshi Puroresu (JWP Project) and JDStar and during her career has held more titles and won more awards than you can shake a stick at.
Arisa is five foot three and weighs in at 130 pounds.
You probably already knew that several female Japanese wrestlers, not only wrestled, but also had singing careers.
To me, most of this is as painful to watch as the WWF/WWE's "Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection", which I have tried very hard to forget.
All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling really pushed this with several songs and CDs being released.
If the idea and the picture above are not enough to stop you...how about a video of the top five songs?
I know that when I can't think of anything else to talk about, I usually go to Kana, but today I thought I'd mention one of my other favorite Joshi wrestlers, Mio Shirai.
It's almost like mentioning Kana.
Yeah I know I just posted about Mio and her sister Io when they were the Sexy Purple Thunder Sisters a while back, but Mio has been doing quite a bit in Japan solo.
Mio and Kana defeated Misaki Ohata and Tsukasa Fujimoto on April 21st, 2013 and won the Wave Tag Team Championship, which is the first title Triple Tails.S has had.
Oh yeah, Triple Tails.S is the Mio/Kana tag-team that used to be just called Triple Tails when Io was a member.
Occasionally Mio and Kana have to face each other like they did here at the Regina di Wave Championship tournament.
I mentioned Ayumi Kurihara several months ago in a post about Joshi wrestlers here in the US.
Since then (on Match 28th, 2013) she announced that due to all the injuries she has suffered during her career, she will be retiring from professional wrestling on August 4th.
It's sad but Ayumi has had a great career since she first debuted in 2005.
She has held world championship titles in promotions like Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), Dramatic Dream Team, NEO Japan Ladies Pro Wrestling, Oz Academy, Pro Wrestling Wave, Shimmer Women Athletes and Xtreme Latin American Wrestling.
Io Shirai and Mio Shirai are two Japanese female wrestlers that were at one time part of the stable Team Makehen and were popularly known as "The Sexy Purple Thunder Sisters".
They debuted in 2007 and made a pretty good name for themselves in wrestling circles working for promotions like
Ibuki, Pro Wrestling Wave, Japanese Women Pro-Wrestling (JWP) Project, Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling and a whole host of others.
In 2010, along with Kana, they formed the very popular Triple Tails stable.
And also in 2010, Mio and Io went to Mexico to work for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA), where they wrestled as Kaguya and Oyuki
In 2011, Io left the group to work on her singles career.
Mio Shirai and Io Shirai taking on Senri Kuroki and Yukari Ishino
Here are a couple of shots of one of my favorite female Japanese wrestlers of all time, Mima Shimoda.
Mima was born on December 23rd, 1970 in Tokyo, Japan and was trained by the legendary Akira Hokuto.
She made her pro wrestling debut back on August 5th, 1987 so she has been wrestling for almost 30 years!
Now she is mainly in Mexico wrestling for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), but she does manage to get to back to Japan now and then to work for the promotions there.
It may not be from Japan, but it is Japanese female wrestling with Makoto taking on Tsukasa Fujimoto.
This match was posted on YouTube by CHIKARAoffice and is from the CHIKARA event, "Chikarasaurus Rex: King of Sequel - Night 2" .
Makoto was born on September 26th, 1989 in Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan.
She was trained by Emi Sakura and since her pro wrestling debut on July 25th, 2006, she has held the Ice Ribbon ICE×60 Championship and the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship.
Tsukasa Fujimoto was born on July 30, 1983 in Sendai, Miyagi Japan.
She was also trained by Emi Sakura, but Tsukasa was an actress before she became a wrestler.
For someone that didnt start out as a wrestler, she has held quite a few titles including the Dramatic Dream Team Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship, a whole slew of titles in Ice Ribbon, the Wave Tag Team Championship in Pro Wrestling WaveReina X World and the Reina World Tag Team Championship.
Here is another Joshi favorite...Akira Hokuto aka The Dangerous Queen.
Akira was born Hisako Uno in Kitakatsushika (Yoshikawa City), Japan on July 13th, 1967.
She got her start in wrestling when she quit high school and joined the AJW Dojo to learn wrestling.
She made her wrestling debut on May 28th, 1985 and went on to work for wrestling promotions all over the world like All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW), Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), GAEA Japan and World Championship Wrestling (WCW) among others.
Akira retired on April 7th, 2002, but still keeps her hand in the wrestling scene along with her husband, Japanese wrestler Kensuke Sasaki.
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I have said several times here that even though the state of female wrestling in Japan may not be that good, but you can still see some great Japanese women wrestlers here in the USA.
Namely with SHIMMER.
Here is a video posted by Dave Prazak on YouTube that's a promo for the SHIMMER Women's Wrestling event that they held on October 27 and 28, 2012 in Berwyn, IL.
Watch the video and keep your eyes peeled and besides some American and Canadian greats, you'll see joshi stars like Ayako Hamada, Hiroyo Matsumoto, Kana, Tomoka Nakagawa, Ryo Mizunami and Yumi Ohka.
Here is a picture I found on a Yahoo Japan Blog of Japanese female wrestler Mimi Hagiwara in her infamous white swimsuit/wrestling gear.
And...um...really that's all I have to say......
Aja Kong is 41 years old and has been wrestling for almost 26 years.
And she is still going strong.
She won the OZ Academy Best Bout Award for 2011 for her match with Mayumi Ozaki on April 10, 2011.
