List of professional wrestling promotions in Japan

This is a list of professional wrestling promotions in Japan which includes both national and independent puroresu and joshi companies from the post-World War II period up to the present day.

This article is about professional wrestling promotions in Japan. For an international listing, see List of professional wrestling promotions.

Major promotions

Puroresu
Name Location Owner(s) Years active Notes
All Japan Pro Wrestling Yokohama Jun Akiyama 1972– Affiliated with National Wrestling Alliance until 1990.[1][2][3]
DDT Pro-Wrestling Tokyo CyberAgent 1997– [1][4]
Dragon Gate Kobe Gaora 2004– Known as Toryumon Japan from 1997 to 2004.[1][5]
Inoki Genome Federation Tokyo Simon Inoki 2007–2019
International Wrestling Enterprise Tokyo Isao Yoshiwara 1967–1981 Associated with the American Wrestling Association from 1970, and the Japan Pro-Wrestling Commission with New Japan Pro Wrestling until 1981.[6]
Japan Wrestling Association Tokyo Rikidōzan 1953–1973 Affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance. Membership was transferred to AJPW.[1][7][8]
New Japan Pro-Wrestling Tokyo Bushiroad 1972– [1][9][10]
Pro Wrestling Noah Tokyo CyberAgent[11] 2000– [1][12][13]

Joshi
Name Location Owner(s) Years active Notes
All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling Tokyo Kunimatsu Matsunaga
Takashi Matsunaga		 1972–2005 [1][14][15]
Gaea Japan Tokyo Yuka Sugiyama
Chigusa Nagayo		 1995–2005 [1][16][17]
World Wonder Ring Stardom Tokyo Bushiroad 2010–

Independent promotions

Puroresu
Name Location Owner(s) Years active Notes
666 Tokyo 2003–
Active Advance Pro Wrestling Chiba 2002– Known as KAIENTAI DOJO and K-DOJO until 2019.
Apache Pro-Wrestling Army Tokyo Kintaro Kanemura 2004–2016
Asuka Pro Wrestling Tokyo Akira Shinose 2014– Previously named Asuka Project until 2019[18]
Battlarts Koshigaya Yuki Ishikawa 1996–2011
Big Japan Pro Wrestling Yokohama Eiji Tosaka 1995–
Dove Pro Wrestling Hiroshima GUNSO 2005–
Cho Sento Puroresu FMW Greater Tokyo Area Akihito Ichihara
Yukihide Ueno		 1989–2002
2015–		 Previously named Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling.[1][19][20]
Diamond Ring Yoshikawa Kensuke Sasaki
Akira Hokuto		 2003–2013 Previously named Kensuke Office.
Dradition Tokyo Tatsumi Fujinami 2008–
El Dorado Wrestling Tokyo Noriaki Kawabata
Koji Fujinaga		 2006–2008 Continuation of DragonDoor.
Federacion Universal de Lucha Libre Hisatsune Shinma 1990–1995 Known as Universal Pro Wrestling from 1990 to 1993, the promotion was affiliated with the Universal Wrestling Association.[21]
Fighting Network Rings Tokyo Akira Maeda 1991–2002 Continuation of Newborn UWF.
Revived as a pure mixed martial arts promotion (The Outsider series) in 2008.
Ganbare Pro-Wrestling Tokyo Originally a special event by parent company DDT, Ganbare has since become its own promotion.[22]
Global Professional Wrestling Alliance Yoshiyuki Nakamura 2006–2009
Hitachi Pro Wrestling Kanto region 2008– [23]
Hokuto Pro Wrestling Hokkaido Crane Nakajo 2004–
Hustle Greater Tokyo Area Nobuhiko Takada 2004–2011 [24]
IWA Japan Tokyo Tatsukuni Asano 1994–2014 Continuation of W*ING.[1][25][26]
JUST TAP OUT Professional Wrestling Tokyo TAKA Michinoku 2019–
Kingdom Tokyo 1997–1998 Continuation of UWF International.
Lion's Gate Project Tokyo Bushiroad 2015– Developmental branch of New Japan Pro Wrestling
Michinoku Pro Wrestling Morioka Jinsei Shinzaki 1993–
New Nemuro Pro Wrestling 2006–[27]
Onita Pro Tokyo Atsushi Onita 1999–2012
Osaka Pro Wrestling Osaka Super Delfin
Yuji Sakagami		 1998–
Ossan Style Wrestling Osaka 2019– Originally called Osaka Style Wrestling, the promotion restarted as Ossan Style Wrestling in 2020[28]
Pro-Wrestling Basara Shinjuku Tokyo Isami Kodaka 2015– Continuation of Union Pro Wrestling. Pro Wrestling Basara Spun Off From DDT Pro Wrestling on January 1, 2020.
Pro Wrestling Dewa Tohoku region Lock Suzuki 2004– [29]
Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS Tokyo Takashi Sasaki 2009–
Pro Wrestling Fujiwara Gumi Tokyo Yoshiaki Fujiwara
Masakatsu Funaki
Minoru Suzuki		 1991–1995
Pro Wrestling Zero1 Tokyo First On Stage Inc. 2001– [1][30][31]
Real Japan Pro Wrestling Tokyo Satoru Sayama 2005–
Riki Pro Tokyo Riki Choshu
Katsuji Nagashima		 2004–2010 Also known as World Japan Pro Wrestling or Fighting of World Japan.[1][32][33]
Secret Base Tokyo Mototsugu Shimizu
Jun Ogawauchi		 2009– Continuation of El Dorado Wrestling.
Smash Tokyo Yoshihiro Tajiri
Akira Shoji		 2010–2012 Continuation of Hustle.[34]
Super World of Sports Tokyo Hachiro Tanaka 1990–1992 Associated with the World Wrestling Federation.[35]
Tenryu Project Tokyo Genichiro Tenryu 2010–2015
Tokyo Gurentai Tokyo Nosawa Rongai
Mazada		 2010–
Tokyo Pro Wrestling Tokyo Takashi Ishikawa 1994–1996
Universal Wrestling Federation Matsumoto Hisashi Shinma 1984–1986 Revived as the Newborn UWF in 1988 and again in 1991 as Union of Wrestling Forces International (UWF International or UWFi).
UWF International Tokyo Nobuhiko Takada 1991–1996 Continuation of Universal Wrestling Federation.
Union Pro Wrestling Shinjuku Tokyo Naomi Susan
DDT Pro Wrestling		 1993–1995
2004–2015
Wrestle-1 Tokyo Keiji Mutoh 2013–2020[36]
Wrestle Association "R" Tokyo Gen'ichiro Tenryu
Masatomo Takei		 1992–2006 [37][38]
Wrestling International New Generations Tokyo Kiyoshi Ibaragi
Victor Quiñonez		 1991–1994 Associated with the World Wrestling Council.[39][40]
Wrestling New Classic Tokyo Yoshihiro Tajiri 2012–2014 Continuation of Smash. Sister promotion of Reina Joshi Puroresu.

Joshi
Name Location Owner(s) Years active Notes
Actwres girl'Z Tokyo Super Project Co. Ltd. 2015–
Arsion Tokyo Rossy

Ogawa

 1997–2003 [41][42]
Gatoh Move Tokyo[43][44] Emi Sakura 2012– Formerly based in Thailand.
Ice Ribbon Warabi Neoplus 2006–
Jd' Tokyo Yoshimoto Kogyo Company
J Office Group		 1995–2007 [45]
JWP Joshi Puroresu Tokyo Kiyoshi Shinozaki
Masatoshi Yamamoto		 1992–2017 [46][47]
Ladies Legend Pro-Wrestling Toshima Rumi Kazama
Shinobu Kandori		 1992–
Marvelous Funabashi Marvelcompany, Inc. 2006–
Oz Academy Tokyo Mayumi Ozaki 1998–
NEO Japan Ladies Pro-Wrestling Yokohama Kyoko Inoue 1997–2010
Pro Wrestling Wave Tokyo Zabun Co, Ltd. 2007– Sister promotion of Osaka Joshi Pro-Wrestling.
Pure-J Adachi, Tokyo Command Bolshoi 2017– [48][49]
Seadlinnng Kawasaki Nanae Takahashi 2015–
Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling Sendai Meiko Satomura 2005–
Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling Tokyo Tetsuya Koda and Nozomi 2012– Subsidiary of DDT Pro-Wrestling

See also

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