Strong Japanese Male Boulderers

The best Japanese male boulderers.

This list aims to list any male Japanese boulderer who has climbed 8B+ or harder. It attempts to be definitive in terms of the people included but does not attempt to enumerate every relevant ascent.

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60 entries on the list.

# ClimberGradeClimbs
1 Ryuichi Murai 9A Return of the Sleepwalker
2 Makoto Yamauchi 9A Burden of Dreams
3 Ryohei Kameyama 8C+ No Kpote Only, La Révolutionnaire, Floatin
4 Yuta Imaizumi 8C+ Nayuta, Floatin, Off the Wagon Low
5 Ritsu Kayotani 8C+ Nexus, Floatin, Tanpopo
6 Daisuke Ichimiya 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, United
7 Kazuma Ise 8C+ Hallucination, Epitaph
8 Toru Nakajima 8C+ Epitaph, Regret
9 Dai Koyamada 8C+ Nayuta
10 Keiichiro Korenaga 8C+ Nexus
11 Shinichiro Nomura 8C Shambala, Orochi, Hydrangea, Babel, Byakudo, Vanitas, Rokudo, Mandragora, Loca, Nehanna, Loco, Kuzan, Spray of Light, Mandoragora
12 Toshi Takeuchi 8C Orochi, Asagimadara, Spray of Light, Monkey Wedding, Vanitas, Eternal, The Singularity, Kuzan
13 Naoki Shimatani 8C Babel, Vanitas, Fantasmagoria, Mandragora, Mandoragora, G-Master, The Finnish Line
14 Akira Waku 8C Hydrangea (Pre 2016 Break), Hyper Ballad, Babel, Hydrangea, Dendrobium
15 Jun Shibanuma 8C Babel, Hydrangea, Sleepwalker, Ashuradō, Byakudo
16 Yuta Kaneki 8C Horizon, Nehanna, Ochimizu, Eternal, The Story of Two Worlds
17 Motochika Nagao 8C Hydrangea (Pre 2016 Break), Babel, Byakudo
18 Rei Kawamata 8C Asagimadara, Mandoragora, Hydrangea
19 Shintaro Kaneki 8C Eternal, Horizon, Gargantua
20 Sachi Amma 8C Hydrangea (Pre 2016 Break), Asagimadara
21 Takuya Nakajima 8C Babel, Hydrangea
22 Tomoa Narasaki 8C Asagimadara, Ashuradō
23 Kyota Hashimoto 8C Asagimadara, Vanitas
24 Tokio Muroi 8C Asagimadara
25 Kazuma Watanabe 8C Eternal
26 Tsukuru Hori 8C Asagimadara
27 Taisei Homma 8C Asagimadara
28 Yu Okumura 8C Horizon
29 Taisei Ishimatsu 8C Kawakinoumi
30 Kai Harada 8C G-Master
31 Yuta Kayotani 8C Gekirin
32 Kokoro Fujii 8C Death's End
33 Kensuke Hamada 8B+ New Base Line, Esperanza, Tokoyo, Mécanique Élémentaire, The Traphouse, Yips, Gakidō
34 Ryosuke Hibino 8B+ Tokoyo, Takaki Mikura SD, Hōtō, Ogle, Meikyoshisui, Kage
35 Mitsuki Yanagi 8B+ Decided, MinerBuster, Hades, Hōtō
36 Satone Yoshida 8B+ Emotion, Tokoyo, Kage, Utsushiyo
37 Hibiki Yamauchi 8B+ The Never Ending Story (Part 1+2), Minerva, Emotion
38 Masanobu Suzuki 8B+ Idea, Borsalino, Meikyoshisui
39 Inaba Oriya 8B+ Minerva, Decided
40 Chev Inaba 8B+ Prethem, Borsalino
41 Keita Watabe 8B+ Circus Elephant Syndrome, The Globalist
42 Shuta Tanaka 8B+ Oxalis, Meikyoshisui
43 Keita Kurakami 8B+ Kakusei
44 Mito Shimokawa 8B+ Kakusei
45 Shinya Ando 8B+ Kakusei
46 Junta Sekiguchi 8B+ Kakusei
47 Yuki Miyashita 8B+ Kakusei
48 Yuta Kimoto 8B+ Utsushiyo
49 Yuji Fujiwaki 8B+ Mona Lisa
50 Atsushi Komiyama 8B+ Borsalino
51 Keita Mineoi 8B+ Utsushiyo
52 Kaito Watanabe 8B+ La Force du Destin
53 Rei Sugimoto 8B+ Amaterasu
54 Kazuya Matsui 8B+ Hōtō
55 Keita Dohi 8B+ Off the Wagon
56 Masato Zushi 8B+ Gakidō
57 Hiroto Shimizu 8B+ Utsushiyo
58 Sorato Anraku 8B+ Hōtō
59 Minoru Nakano 8B+ Air
60 Tomoki Narita 8B+ UMA