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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61 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, Babel, Hydrangea, Byakudo, Vanitas, Rokudo, 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 Shintaro Kaneki 8C Eternal, Horizon, Gargantua, Kawakinoumi, Gekirin, Ochimizu, Nehanna
14 Naoki Shimatani 8C Babel, Vanitas, Fantasmagoria, Mandoragora, G-Master, The Finnish Line
15 Akira Waku 8C Hydrangea (Pre 2016 Break), Hyper Ballad, Babel, Hydrangea, Dendrobium
16 Jun Shibanuma 8C Babel, Hydrangea, Sleepwalker, Ashuradō, Byakudo
17 Yuta Kaneki 8C Horizon, Nehanna, Ochimizu, Eternal, The Story of Two Worlds
18 Motochika Nagao 8C Hydrangea (Pre 2016 Break), Babel, Byakudo
19 Rei Kawamata 8C Asagimadara, Mandoragora, Hydrangea
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 Kaito Watanabe 8C The Big Island
34 Kensuke Hamada 8B+ New Base Line, Esperanza, Tokoyo, Mécanique Élémentaire, The Traphouse, Yips, Gakidō
35 Ryosuke Hibino 8B+ Tokoyo, Takaki Mikura SD, Hōtō, Ogle, Meikyoshisui, Kage
36 Mitsuki Yanagi 8B+ Decided, MinerBuster, Hades, Hōtō
37 Satone Yoshida 8B+ Emotion, Tokoyo, Kage, Utsushiyo
38 Hibiki Yamauchi 8B+ The Never Ending Story (Part 1+2), Minerva, Emotion
39 Masanobu Suzuki 8B+ Idea, Borsalino, Meikyoshisui
40 Inaba Oriya 8B+ Minerva, Decided
41 Chev Inaba 8B+ Prethem, Borsalino
42 Keita Watabe 8B+ The Globalist, Circus Elephant Syndrome
43 Hayato Tsuru 8B+ Gakidō, Takaki Mikura SD
44 Shuta Tanaka 8B+ Oxalis, Meikyoshisui
45 Keita Kurakami 8B+ Kakusei
46 Mito Shimokawa 8B+ Kakusei
47 Shinya Ando 8B+ Kakusei
48 Junta Sekiguchi 8B+ Kakusei
49 Yuki Miyashita 8B+ Kakusei
50 Yuta Kimoto 8B+ Utsushiyo
51 Yuji Fujiwaki 8B+ Mona Lisa
52 Atsushi Komiyama 8B+ Borsalino
53 Keita Mineoi 8B+ Utsushiyo
54 Rei Sugimoto 8B+ Amaterasu
55 Kazuya Matsui 8B+ Hōtō
56 Keita Dohi 8B+ Off the Wagon
57 Masato Zushi 8B+ Gakidō
58 Hiroto Shimizu 8B+ Utsushiyo
59 Sorato Anraku 8B+ Hōtō
60 Minoru Nakano 8B+ Air
61 Tomoki Narita 8B+ UMA