Mimi Hagiwara In Her Infamous White Swimsuit

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 - Still Going Strong

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.

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Candy Okutsu Wrestling Ayako Hamada

Here is a match posted by HybridDolphinELPS on YouTube, of Candy Okutsu wrestling Ayako Hamada in Ayako's debut for the ARSION wrestling promotion back in 1998.
1998?
Has it really been that long?

Anyway, like I said, this was Ayako's debut wrestling match, and she was seventeen at the time, although you couldn't tell it by her in ring performance.
Less than one year after this match, she and Mika Akino won the Twinstar of ARSION tag- team wrestling belts.
Of course Ayako has wrestled all over the world since then for promotions like Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) in Mexico, TNA wrestling, Shimmer Women Athletes and many more.

Candy Okutsu on the other hand had a few years under her belt at the time of this match, having debuted on August 4, 1992 (also at the age of 17) for the JWP.

But looking at this match, you really cant see much of a difference in their in-ring abilities.

Starting off, Candy hits the double bicep pose after she gets in the ring....



And to show that she's not intimidated, Ayako does the same...



The two women exchange a flurry of the typical (for Joshi) high speed attacks, reversals and counters, winding up with a test of strength in the center of the ring....



After one brutal exchange (I think Candy had some of the hardest elbows in the business) she goes for a pin on Ayako...



Later on, she traps Ayako in the inevitable Boston Crab...



But Ayako rallies, and traps Candy in a sleeper....




This is a really good, solid Joshi match, and one you can show your friends to help explain that even a standard Joshi match is better than 90% of the WWE Diva and TNA Knockout matches.

And of course you can visit HybridDolphinELPS' channel on YouTube to this see this, and more Joshi action like it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/HybridDolphinELPS

Candy Okutsu wrestling Ayako Hamada posted to http://joshipuroresu.blogspot.com/ on May 2nd, 2010

Kana Wrestling Chihiro Oikawa

Since Kana seems to be so popular, here is another video from YouTube of Kana this time wrestling Chihiro Oikawa.
It was posted on YouTube by kapengmabula.
Like several others I have mentioned here, kapengmabula has a lot of good Joshi matches posted, and you can see them all here.

This is part one of the match.....



Kana has been around for awhile, making her pro wrestling debut in June, 2004.
Chihiro Oikawa is BattleArts' first ever joshi wrestler and she has a MMA record of 1-1-0.
BattleArts is a shoot style promotion that is a cross between MMA and mat based wrestling.
And in BattleArts, there are no pins, just submission or knockout based outcomes.

Cherry and Takanashi Masako wrestling Kana and Oikawa Chihiro

Well here is a kind of unusual video I found on Veoh of Cherry and Takanashi Masako wrestling Kana and Oikawa Chihiro.
The video was posted by apocalyptico77 and it happened at Union Night in Shikiba on 3-7-2009.
Why Takanashi Masako is wrestling in drag I have no idea (Shades of Santina Marella!).
Maybe someone out there can explain why he's doing this.
But if you kinda look past that, it's a pretty good match.
Of course any match Cherry or Kana is in is good.
: )
You can check out apocalyptico77's page here and see some more great Japanese wrestling, not just joshi either.


Watch Union Proresu - Cherry,Takanashi Masako vs Kana, Oikawa Chihiro in Sports | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

Takashi Matsunaga, All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling

Takashi Matsunaga who founded All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling back in 1968 along with his brothers, passed away last Saturday.

Takashi was 73 years old.

Before founding "Zenjo", he had been the promoter, business manager and trainer for All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling Federation.

Takashi Matsunaga was one of the most important figures in women's pro wrestling, helping to elevate Joshi Puroresu in Japan.

Joshi Puroresu News

Sad news.
Chris over at Joshi Puroresu News posted this today:

This time it is the end!
I have to stop updating this blog i am afraid as i simply do not have time to keep it up to date. Sorry if you rely on Ice Ribbon results being translated but its quite easy to do yourself anyway with a copy & paste and an online translator. Romaji translator is what i use.
Thanks for all people who have come here over the last few months. The blog will be kept alive in archive mode. LL!

This is sad because his blog was a really good source of up to date Joshi Puroresu news.
He had matches, results, info and really good pictures.
I hate to see the blog go, but I hope it will be back in the future.

You can see his blog here:
http://joshi-news.blogspot.com/


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SENDAI Girls' Pro Wrestling

Meiko Satomura, one of the co-founders of SENDAI Girls

Founded in 2005 by Meiko Satomura and Jinsei Shinzaki, SENDAI Girls' Pro Wrestling is a Japanese female wrestling promotion based in the city of Sendai, Miyagi in the Tohoku region.
It is also known by SGPW and Senjo.
Meiko Satomura was a successful female wrestler in the 2000's, wrestling for promotions like GAEA Japan where she was both a two time singles champion and two time tag team champion.
Jinsei Shinzaki, a male pro wrestler is the prsident of Michinoku Pro Wrestling. He wrestled in the US for the WWF and ECW.

At first, Satomura was the only experienced wrestler on the roster, and she served as not only a wrestler, but also the trainer and booker.
SENDAI held it's first show on July 9, 2006 at Sendai's Sun Plaza.
Because of the small roster, the matches consisted of Senjo's first four wrestlers making their debuts in singles matches against four experienced female wrestlers.

And because of the small roster size, most of their shows are SENDAI Girls versus other promotions, which over here would be like WWE and TNA wrestlers facing each other at a show, or WWE and ROH.

According to their website, their roster currently stands at:
DASH Chisako
Hiren
Meiko Satomura
Ryo Mizunami
Sendai Sachiko
Yukari Ishino

The SENDAI Girls website is here:
http://www.sendaigirls.jp/

Female Wrestlers of Kaientai Dojo

Japanese professional wrestling promotion Kaientai Dojo (K-DOJO) is one of the few wrestling promotions to feature both men and women in mixed matches.
They will wrestle each other during mixed tag matches or singles matches.

Some of the female wrestlers that have worked for K-DOJO are.....

Tomoka Nakagawa

Yuu Yamagata

Ofune

Apple Miyuki

Bambi

All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling

Bull Nakano started with AJW at the age of 15

Established in 1968 by Takashi Matsunaga and his brothers, All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling was a joshi puroresu (women's professional wrestling) promotion.
The promotion held it's first event on June 4, 1968.
Also in 1968, they got a deal with Fuji TV. This was the first time joshi puroresu had been aired on TV in Japan.
AJW was the successor to the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling Association, which had been formed in August 1955.
The AJW held several regular annual events like the Japan Grand Prix, Tag League the Best, Wrestlemarinpiad and Wrestling Queendom.
On November 29, 1998, The AJW Hall of Fame had its first inducted class enshrined at Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Japan.

Most of the major female stars of Japanese wrestling worked for AJW at one time or another including:

Lioness Asuka (joined in 1980)
Akira Hokuto (she quit High School and joined the AJW dojo, making her wrestling debut shortly before her 18th birthday)
Aja Kong (trained by AJW, and graduated as part of their class of 1986)
Devil Masami (member of the All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame,inducted in 1998)
Dump Matsumoto (one of AJW's biggest stars in the 1980s)
Monster Ripper (debuted in AJW in 1979)
Chigusa Nagayo (one half of the Crush Gals with Lioness Asuka)
Bull Nakano (started training with AJW at the age of 15)
Jackie Sato (joined AJW in 1975)
Jaguar Yokota (defeated WWWA Champion Jackie Sato at the age of 19)

The AJW wrestling promotion closed it's doors in April 2005 after a 37 year run.

The AJW Championship, Part 3

Mima Shimoda

On September 18, 1993 in Omiya, Saitama, Mima Shimoda defeated Bat Yoshinaga to win the belt. Less than a year later, Mima gave up the title to concentrate on her tag team matches with Estuko Mita.
Kaoru Ito defeated Rie Tamada on May 4, 1994 in Toda, Saitama to become the new AJW Champion.
Then on June 30, 1995, Tomoko Watanabe won the belt, vacating it in early 1996.
Kumiko Maekawa defeated Chaparita ASARI on May 4, 1996 to take the title, then Rie Tamada beat her for the belt on November 21, 1996 and held it for a little over a year before she too vacated it in December 1997.
On December 12, 1997 Momoe Nakanishi defeated Sachie Nishibori to become the new champion.
Emi Motokawa won the belt on January 24, 1998 and in turn, Momoe Nakanishi took the title back on April 12, 1998. Due to the title defense limit, Momoe vacated the belt in 1999.
Nanae Takahashi defeated Miyuki Fujii on March 1, 2000, in Fukuoka, Fukuoka to become the new champion.
And Miho Wakizawa defeated Nanae Takahashi to become champion on September 17, 2000 in Tokyo.

To be continued.......

Akagi Haruna , Aika Ando

Aika Ando is a Japanese female wrestler.
I couldn't find a lot on her other than she wrestles in the Ice Ribbon promotion in Japan.
I think she has also wrestled for NEO.
And she seems to tag team with Emi Sakura a lot.


Akagi Haruna
Another female japanese wrestler that works for the Ice Ribbon promotion.

Asuka Ohki, Tyrannosaurus Okuda and Natsuki Taiyo

Asuka Ohki (Kaori Ohki) is a Japanese female wrestler born on October 31st, 1985 in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan.
Yes, a Halloween baby.
She made her pro wrestling debut on December 24th, 2006 wrestling Kayoko Haruyama.
Here is a wrestling video of Asuka Ohki taking on our next entry Tyrannosaurus Okuda.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMwN9l5VNCc


Tyrannosaurus Okuda (Shuri Okuda) was born on November 23rd, 1989 in Tadotsu, Kagawa, Japan.
She made her wrestling debut on July 7th, 2006 against the legendary Mayumi Ozaki.
Tyrannosaurus (you gotta love that name) has wrestled for SENDAI GIRLS and various independent promotions in Japan.
She has held the JWP Jr.Title and the POP (Princess of Pro-Wrestling) Title.
Here is a video of Tyrannosaurus Okuda wrestling Hiroyo Matsumoto.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxQfjuhbvII


Natsuki Taiyo was born in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.
She made her pro wrestling debut on January 3rd, against Hiromi Takahashi.
Natsuki has wrestled for several Japanese promotions including - All Japan Women, GTKN, SUN and independent promotions.
She has held the Iron Man Heavy Metal Title twice, the POP (Princess of Pro-Wrestling) Title and the World-1 Women's Title.
Here is a video of Natsuki Taiyo wrestling the popular Kyoko Kimura.
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v4296518b94MjypF

Tojuki Leon, Tsbuasa Kuragaki and Nozomi Dai

Tojuki Leon (Rena Takase) was born on July 2nd, 1980 in Namerikawa, Toyama, Japan.
Her pro wrestling debut was March 15th 2000 wrestling against Ai Fujita.
Her favorite wrestling moves are the KIBA, the Mad Splash and the LEON Stone.
Leon has wrestled for ARSION, AtoZ and JWP.
Here is a video of Kaori Yoneyama and Tojuki Leon wrestling Keito and KAZUKI
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v16555700KHTdDpqk
Tsbuasa Kuragaki (Yasuko Kuragaki) was born on December 7th, 1975 in Kamagaya, Chiba, Japan.
She made her pro wrestling debut against Tomomi Kobayashi on January 8th, 1995.
Her favorite wrestling moves are the Canadian Backbreaker, Firebird Splash (450 Splash) , Luna Wing, Metal Wing, Moonsault Press and the Wing Clutch Hold.
She wrestles for JWP.


Nozomi Dai was born on December 13th, 1990 in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.
She made her pro wrestling debut at the age of 16 against Toshie Uematsu on July 13th, 2008.
She wrestles for the Japanese promotion NEO.

The WWWA World Tag Team Championship

Since I've already done an entry on the WWWA World Heavyweight Championship, I thought I'd do one on the WWWA World Tag Team Championship.
The WWWA World Tag Team Championship was All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) tag team title from 1971 till they shut down in 2005.
The title was held by many of the most famous joshi puroresu stars as well as several famous female wrestlers from the US.
Jumbo Miyamoto and Aiko Kiyo were the first champions defeating Patty O'Hara and Texas Red for the belt. But in a very unusual move, Jumbo Miyamoto and Aiko Kiyo weren't satisfied with the match (even though they won) and wanted a rematch. This led to Patty O'Hara and Texas Red winning the second match and becoming the tag team champions.
This started a trend for Jumbo Miyamoto as she teamed with Maxie Murata and won the titles back.
Jumbo Miyamoto would hold one half of the tag team belts many times in the following years, with many different partners such as Miyoko Hoshino, Mariko Akagi and Junko Sasaki.

The Beauty Pair, Jackie Sato and Maki Ueda, held the belts, as did the Queen Angels (Lucy Kayama and Tomi Aoyama), the Black Pair (Mami Kumano and Yumi Ikeshita), the Dynamite Girls (Jumbo Hori and Yukari Omori), the Crush Gals (Chigusa Nagayo and Lioness Asuka), the Jumping Bomb Angels (Itsuki Yamazaki and Noriyo Tateno) and the Red Typhoons (Kazue Nagahori and Yumi Ogura) among many others.

The last tag team to hold the belts was Double Kong (Aja Kong and Amazing Kong) back in October of 2004.

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

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

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

Beautiful Japanese female wrestler Chikako Shiratori

Really good picture I found of Japanese female wrestler Chikako Shiratori on www.quebrada.net/
If you havent been there go there, they have tons of not only Japanese wrestling, but Lucha Libre as well.