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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37 entries on the list.

Climber Grade Climbs
1 Ryuichi Murai 8C+ United, Nexus, Floatin, Sleepwalker, Livin' Large
2 Ryohei Kameyama 8C+ No Kpote Only, La Révolutionnaire, Floatin
3 Toru Nakajima 8C+ Epitaph, Regret, Sleepwalker
4 Dai Koyamada 8C+ The Story of Two Worlds (Low Start), Nayuta
5 Daisuke Ichimiya 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, United
6 Kazuma Ise 8C+ Hallucination, Epitaph
7 Yuta Imaizumi 8C+ Nayuta, Floatin
8 Ritsu Kayotani 8C+ Nexus, Floatin
9 Keiichiro Korenaga 8C+ Nexus
10 Jun Shibanuma 8C+ Sleepwalker
11 Shinichiro Nomura 8C Shambala, Orochi, Hydrangea, Babel, Byaku-Dou, Vanitas, Rokudo, Mandragora, Loca, Nehanna, Loco, Kusan, Kuzan
12 Toshi Takeuchi 8C Orochi, Asagimadara, Monkey Wedding, Vanitas, Eternal, The Singularity, Kuzan
13 Akira Waku 8C Hydrangea (Pre 2016 Break), Hyper Ballad, Babel, Hydrangea, Dendrobium
14 Naoki Shimatani 8C Babel, Fantasmagoria, Mandragora, G-Master, The Finnish Line
15 Sachi Amma 8C Hydrangea (Pre 2016 Break), Asagimadara
16 Takuya Nakajima 8C Babel, Hydrangea
17 Tomoa Narasaki 8C Asagimadara, Ashuradō
18 Tokio Muroi 8C Asagimadara
19 Motofumi Nagao 8C Hydrangea (Pre 2016 Break)
20 Makoto Yamauchi 8C Orochi
21 Kazuma Watanabe 8C Eternal
22 Tsukuru Hori 8C Asagimadara
23 Yu Okumura 8C Horizon
24 Kai Harada 8C G-Master
25 Kokoro Fujii 8C Death's End
26 Kensuke Hamada 8B+ New Base Line, Esperanza
27 Keita Watabe 8B+ Circus Elephant Syndrome, The Globalist
28 Keita Kurakami 8B+ Kakusei
29 Mito Shimokawa 8B+ Kakusei
30 Shinya Ando 8B+ Kakusei
31 Junta Sekiguchi 8B+ Kakusei
32 Hibiki Yamauchi 8B+ Emotion
33 Yuki Miyashita 8B+ Kakusei
34 Satone Yoshida 8B+ Emotion
35 Taisei Ishimatsu 8B+ Gakidō
36 Kaito Watanabe 8B+ La Force du Destin
37 Keita Dohi 8B+ Off the Wagon