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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54 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 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, Babel, Hydrangea, 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 Sachi Amma 8C Hydrangea (Pre 2016 Break), Asagimadara
17 Takuya Nakajima 8C Babel, Hydrangea
18 Tomoa Narasaki 8C Asagimadara, Ashuradō
19 Kyota Hashimoto 8C Asagimadara, Vanitas
20 Tokio Muroi 8C Asagimadara
21 Motofumi Nagao 8C Hydrangea (Pre 2016 Break)
22 Makoto Yamauchi 8C Orochi
23 Kazuma Watanabe 8C Eternal
24 Tsukuru Hori 8C Asagimadara
25 Yu Okumura 8C Horizon
26 Kai Harada 8C G-Master
27 Kokoro Fujii 8C Death's End
28 Rei Kawamata 8C MinerBuster
29 Ryosuke Hibino 8B+ Tokoyo, Takaki Mikura SD, Hōtō, Ogle, Meikyoshisui, Kage
30 Satone Yoshida 8B+ Tokoyo, Emotion, Kage, Utsushiyo
31 Kensuke Hamada 8B+ New Base Line, Esperanza, Tokoyo
32 Masanobu Suzuki 8B+ Idea, Borsalino, Meikyoshisui
33 Inaba Chev 8B+ Prethem, Borsalino
34 Keita Watabe 8B+ Circus Elephant Syndrome, The Globalist
35 Keita Kurakami 8B+ Kakusei
36 Mito Shimokawa 8B+ Kakusei
37 Shinya Ando 8B+ Kakusei
38 Junta Sekiguchi 8B+ Kakusei
39 Hibiki Yamauchi 8B+ Emotion
40 Yuki Miyashita 8B+ Kakusei
41 Yuta Kimoto 8B+ Utsushiyo
42 Yuji Fujiwaki 8B+ Mona Lisa
43 Atsushi Komiyama 8B+ Borsalino
44 Keita Mineoi 8B+ Utsushiyo
45 Taisei Ishimatsu 8B+ Gakidō
46 Mitsuki Yanagi 8B+ Hades
47 Kaito Watanabe 8B+ La Force du Destin
48 Rei Sugimoto 8B+ Amaterasu
49 Kazuya Matsui 8B+ Hōtō
50 Keita Dohi 8B+ Off the Wagon
51 Masato Zushi 8B+ Gakidō
52 Hiroto Shimizu 8B+ Utsushiyo
53 Sorato Anraku 8B+ Hōtō
54 Minoru Nakano 8B+ Air