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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55 entries on the list.

Climber Grade Climbs
1 Ryuichi Murai 9A Return of the Sleepwalker
2 Ryohei Kameyama 8C+ No Kpote Only, La Révolutionnaire, Floatin
3 Toru Nakajima 8C+ Epitaph, Regret, Sleepwalker
4 Daisuke Ichimiya 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, United
5 Kazuma Ise 8C+ Hallucination, Epitaph
6 Yuta Imaizumi 8C+ Nayuta, Floatin
7 Ritsu Kayotani 8C+ Nexus, Floatin
8 Dai Koyamada 8C+ Nayuta
9 Keiichiro Korenaga 8C+ Nexus
10 Jun Shibanuma 8C+ Sleepwalker
11 Shinichiro Nomura 8C Shambala, Orochi, Hydrangea, Babel, Byakudo, Vanitas, Rokudo, Mandragora, Loca, Nehanna, Loco, Kuzan
12 Toshi Takeuchi 8C Orochi, Asagimadara, Monkey Wedding, MinerBuster, Vanitas, Eternal, The Singularity, Kuzan
13 Naoki Shimatani 8C Babel, Vanitas, Fantasmagoria, Mandragora, G-Master, The Finnish Line
14 Akira Waku 8C Hydrangea (Pre 2016 Break), Hyper Ballad, Babel, Hydrangea, Dendrobium
15 Motochika Nagao 8C Hydrangea, Babel, Byakudo
16 Rei Kawamata 8C Asagimadara, Hydrangea, MinerBuster
17 Yuta Kaneki 8C Horizon, Nehanna, Eternal
18 Sachi Amma 8C Hydrangea (Pre 2016 Break), Asagimadara
19 Takuya Nakajima 8C Babel, Hydrangea
20 Tomoa Narasaki 8C Asagimadara, Ashuradō
21 Kyota Hashimoto 8C Asagimadara, Vanitas
22 Tokio Muroi 8C Asagimadara
23 Motofumi Nagao 8C Hydrangea (Pre 2016 Break)
24 Makoto Yamauchi 8C Orochi
25 Kazuma Watanabe 8C Eternal
26 Tsukuru Hori 8C Asagimadara
27 Yu Okumura 8C Horizon
28 Taisei Ishimatsu 8C MinerBuster
29 Kai Harada 8C G-Master
30 Kokoro Fujii 8C Death's End
31 Ryosuke Hibino 8B+ Tokoyo, Takaki Mikura SD, Hōtō, Ogle, Meikyoshisui, Kage
32 Satone Yoshida 8B+ Emotion, Tokoyo, Kage, Utsushiyo
33 Kensuke Hamada 8B+ New Base Line, Esperanza, Tokoyo
34 Masanobu Suzuki 8B+ Idea, Meikyoshisui, Borsalino
35 Inaba Chev 8B+ Prethem, Borsalino
36 Mitsuki Yanagi 8B+ Hades, Hōtō
37 Keita Watabe 8B+ Circus Elephant Syndrome, The Globalist
38 Keita Kurakami 8B+ Kakusei
39 Mito Shimokawa 8B+ Kakusei
40 Shinya Ando 8B+ Kakusei
41 Junta Sekiguchi 8B+ Kakusei
42 Hibiki Yamauchi 8B+ Emotion
43 Yuki Miyashita 8B+ Kakusei
44 Yuta Kimoto 8B+ Utsushiyo
45 Yuji Fujiwaki 8B+ Mona Lisa
46 Atsushi Komiyama 8B+ Borsalino
47 Keita Mineoi 8B+ Utsushiyo
48 Kaito Watanabe 8B+ La Force du Destin
49 Rei Sugimoto 8B+ Amaterasu
50 Kazuya Matsui 8B+ Hōtō
51 Keita Dohi 8B+ Off the Wagon
52 Masato Zushi 8B+ Gakidō
53 Hiroto Shimizu 8B+ Utsushiyo
54 Sorato Anraku 8B+ Hōtō
55 Minoru Nakano 8B+ Air