1. Hozumi Hasegawa (1980)

Japanese Boxer

Former WBC World Bantamweight Champion, WBC World Featherweight Champion, and 4-time Japan Boxing Commission MVP.

2. Daiki Kameda (1989)

Japanese Boxer

WBA World Flyweight champion who was suspended by the Japan Boxing Commission for one year due to professional misconduct.

3. Joichiro Tatsuyoshi (1970)

Japanese Boxer

Boxer with an unusually long reach who became a 3-time WBC Bantamweight Champion, and was a Japan Professional Sports Grand Prize winner.

4. Takashi Koshimoto (1971)

Japanese Boxer

WBC Featherweight Champion from January-July 2006, became the oldest Japanese boxer to win a world title at 35 years old.

5. Naoya Inoue (1993)

Japanese Boxer

Boxer who won the WBO junior-bantamweight title the WBC light-flyweight title in 2014. He has 650,000 followers on his naoyainoue_410 Instagram account. 

6. Akinobu Hiranaka (1963)

Japanese Boxer

Japanese fighter who won the WBA Light Welterweight title in 1992 and competed at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.

7. Kōki Kameda (1986)

Japanese Boxer

Eldest of the three boxing Kameda brothers who won a WBA Light Flyweight championship with an overall record of 28-1.

8. Masatsugu Kawachi (1985)

Japanese Boxer

Masatsugu Kawachi is a Japanese boxer best known to win Bronze at the 2007 world championships at light welterweight.

9. Hirofumi Mukai (1985)

Japanese Boxer

Hirofumi Mukai is a Japanese professional boxer in the Super Flyweight division having started his career in the Flyweight division.

10. Hiromi Amada (1973)

Japanese Boxer

Hiromi Amada is a Japanese super heavyweight kickboxer and boxer from Gunma Japan competing in K-1.

11. Tomoki Kameda (1991)

Japanese Boxer

Tomoki Kameda is an undefeated Japanese boxer in the Super Bantamweight division. He is the current WBO Bantamweight Champion.

12. Katsushige Kawashima (1974)

Japanese Boxer

Katsushige Kawashima is a retired professional boxer who fought in the super flyweight division. He is a former WBC super flyweight champion.

13. Daisuke Naito (1974)

Japanese Boxer

Daisuke Naito is a former professional boxer from Japan. He is the former WBC flyweight champion and former Japanese and OPBF flyweight champion.

14. Hiroyuki Hisataka (1985)

Japanese Boxer

Hiroyuki Hisataka in Osaka Osaka Japan is a Japanese professional boxer in the Super Flyweight division having started his career in the Flyweight division.

15. Kazumasa Tsujimoto (1975)

Japanese Boxer

Kazumasa Tsujimoto is a retired male boxer from Japan. He represented his native country twice at the Summer Olympics: in 1996 and 2000. After having competed in the men's...

16. Emiko Raika (1975)

Japanese Boxer

Emiko Raika is a Japanese female professional boxer. The former WIBA Featherweight Champion on the World Raika is considered one of the greatest Japanese female boxers of all time. Although...

17. Nihito Arakawa (1981)

Japanese Boxer

Nihito Arakawa is a professional boxer nicknamed Japanese Rocky. He made his mark in the twelve-round lightweight slugfest against Omar Figueroa in July 2013 that earned him the nickname after...

18. Yusuke Kobori (1981)

Japanese Boxer

Yusuke Kobori is a retired professional boxer from Japan and a former WBA lightweight champion. Kobori won the Japanese super featherweight title on January 14 2006 by knocking out Keita...

19. Shingo Wake (1987)

Japanese Boxer

Shingo Wake is a Japanese boxer. He is the current OPBF super bantamweight champion. He trains under Satoshi Koguchi at Koguchi Boxing Gym in Tokyo. Wake hails from Okayama Japan...

20. Iwao Hakamada (1936)

Japanese Boxer

Iwao Hakamada is a Japanese former professional boxer who was sentenced to death on September 11 1968 for a 1966 mass murder that became known as the Hakamada Incident. He...

21. Koki Eto (1988)

Japanese Boxer

Koki Eto is a flyweight boxer from Japan and a former WBA Interim Flyweight Champion. He was born and raised in Okinawa Prefecture and now lives in Tokyo. Koki is...

22. Fighting Harada (1943)

Japanese Boxer

Masahiko Harada better known as Fighting Harada is a former world boxing champion. He is currently the president of the Japanese boxing commission. Harada was arguably one of Japan's most...

23. Hitoshi Ishigaki (1953)

Japanese Boxer

Hitoshi Ishigaki is a retired amateur boxer from Japan who won the gold medal at the 1974 Asian Games in the men's bantamweight division. He represented his native country...

24. Guts Ishimatsu (1949)

Japanese Boxer

Guts Ishimatsu on June 5 1949) is a former boxing world champion from Kanumashi Japan. After retiring from boxing he has gained popularity as an actor and comedian. As a...

25. Shig Fukuyama (1950)

Japanese Boxer

Shig Fukuyama born Shigefumi Fukuyama is a former Japanese professional boxer. Fukuyama was born in Kagoshima Japan and is a resident of Los Angeles California. In 1976 he fought and...

26. Shoji Oguma (1951)

Japanese Boxer

Shoji Oguma was a Japanese southpaw boxer at Flyweight.

27. Mamoru Kuroiwa (1962)

Japanese Boxer

Mamoru Kuroiwa is a retired boxer from Japan who twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics: 1984 and 1988. In the flyweight division he lost at the...

28. Satoshi Shingaki (1964)

Japanese Boxer

Satoshi Shingaki is a Japanese ex-boxer and former world champion. To this day he is one of only three boxers from Japan to win a title from the IBF.

29. Tadashi Mihara (1955)

Japanese Boxer

Tadashi Mihara is a former professional boxer who competed as a light middleweight throughout his career. Mihara began his boxing career when he was a third grader of the high...

30. Jiro Watanabe (1955)

Japanese Boxer

Jiro Watanabe is a Japanese former boxer and current yakuzaWatanabe who fought only in Japan and South Korea was one of the first World Super flyweight champions as the division...

31. Hideyuki Ohashi (1965)

Japanese Boxer

Hideyuki Ohashi is a former professional boxer and two-time minimumweight world champion.

32. Yoko Gushiken (1955)

Japanese Boxer

Yoko Gushiken is a Japanese former professional boxer from 1974-1981. His professional record is 23-1 and he held the title of WBA Light Flyweight champion 1976-1981. Following his retirement from...

33. Yasuei Yakushiji (1968)

Japanese Boxer

Yasuei Yakushiji is a former professional boxer who fought in the bantamweight division. He successfully defended the WBC bantamweight title four times during his career.

34. Hiroki Ioka (1969)

Japanese Boxer

Hiroki Ioka is a former WBC Minimumweight and WBA Lightweight champion. He was the first ever WBC Minimumweight champion winning the title immediately after the minimumweight division was created.

35. Satoshi Shimizu (1986)

Japanese Boxer

Satoshi Shimizu is a boxer from Japan who won the bronze medal in the men's bantamweight division at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. He is currently an employee of...

36. Katsuo Tokashiki (1960)

Japanese Boxer

Katsuo Tokashiki is a Japanese former WBA Light flyweight champion. He currently works as an actor and television persona and runs own boxing gym in Tokyo Japan.

37. Keitaro Hoshino (1969)

Japanese Boxer

Keitaro Hoshino is a flyweight boxer.

38. Hiroshi Kobayashi (1959)

Japanese Boxer

Hiroshi Kobayashi is a former professional boxer. Kobayashi turned pro in 1962 and won the WBC and WBA Super Featherweight Title in 1967 by defeating Yoshiaki Numata by 12th round...

39. Takefumi Sakata (1980)

Japanese Boxer

Takefumi Sakata is a Japanese boxer in the flyweight division and a former WBA flyweight champion. Sakata was the premier boxer in the Kyoei boxing gym before the arrival of...

40. Katsunari Takayama (1983)

Japanese Boxer

Katsunari Takayama is a Japanese professional boxer who is the current IBF mini flyweight champion. He is the former WBA minimumweight interim champion and the former WBC minimumweight champion. While...

41. Hirokuni Moto (1970)

Japanese Boxer

Hirokuni Moto is a retired male boxer from Japan. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta Georgia where he was stopped in the second...

42. Katsuya Onizuka (1970)

Japanese Boxer

Katsuya Onizuka is a former WBA Super Flyweight champion from Kitakyushu Japan. Onizuka was an extremely popular boxer in Japan creating a boxing boom in Japan during the early 1990s...

43. Shigeyuki Dobashi (1970)

Japanese Boxer

Shigeyuki Dobashi is a retired boxer from Japan who competed for his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona Spain. Japan sent four boxers to the Barcelona...

44. Tadahiro Sasaki (1970)

Japanese Boxer

Tadahiro Sasaki is a retired boxer from Japan who competed for his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona Spain. Japan sent four boxers to the Barcelona...

45. Kazuto Ioka (1989)

Japanese Boxer

Kazuto Ioka　 is a Flyweight boxer from Japan. He is a former unified Minimumweight champion holding the WBA and WBC titles and is a former WBA Light flyweight champion therefore...

46. Katsuaki Susa (1984)

Japanese Boxer

Katsuaki Susa is a Japanese boxer who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the flyweight division. He is an alumnus of the Toyo University and is Second lieutenant in...

47. Akifumi Shimoda (1984)

Japanese Boxer

Akifumi Shimoda is a Featherweight boxer from Japan and the former world champion of WBA at Super bantamweight. He was born in Sapporo Hokkaido and grew up in Kure City...

48. Takashi Miura (1984)

Japanese Boxer

Takashi Miura is a super featherweight boxer from Japan and the current WBC Super Featherweight Champion. He was born in Akita Prefecture and lives in Tokyo. Miura won the WBC...

49. Kyotaro Fujimoto (1986)

Japanese Boxer

Kyotaro is a Japanese heavyweight boxer and former kickboxer. His real name is Kyotaro Fujimoto and he had been using 3 other ring names before. He is known for his...

50. Takashi Uchiyama (1979)

Japanese Boxer

Takashi Uchiyama is a super featherweight boxer from Japan and the current WBA Super Featherweight Champion. He was born in Nagasaki Prefecture grew up in Kasukabe Saitama and lives in...