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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58 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 Ritsu Kayotani 8C+ Nexus, Floatin, Tanpopo
4 Daisuke Ichimiya 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, United
5 Kazuma Ise 8C+ Hallucination, Epitaph
6 Toru Nakajima 8C+ Epitaph, Regret
7 Yuta Imaizumi 8C+ Nayuta, Floatin
8 Dai Koyamada 8C+ Nayuta
9 Keiichiro Korenaga 8C+ Nexus
10 Shinichiro Nomura 8C Shambala, Orochi, Babel, Hydrangea, Byakudo, Vanitas, Rokudo, Mandragora, Loca, Nehanna, Loco, Kuzan, Spray of Light
11 Toshi Takeuchi 8C Orochi, Asagimadara, Spray of Light, Monkey Wedding, Vanitas, Eternal, The Singularity, Kuzan
12 Naoki Shimatani 8C Babel, Vanitas, Fantasmagoria, Mandragora, G-Master, The Finnish Line
13 Akira Waku 8C Hydrangea (Pre 2016 Break), Hyper Ballad, Babel, Hydrangea, Dendrobium
14 Jun Shibanuma 8C Babel, Hydrangea, Sleepwalker, Ashuradō, Byakudo
15 Motochika Nagao 8C Hydrangea (Pre 2016 Break), Babel, Byakudo
16 Yuta Kaneki 8C Horizon, Nehanna, Eternal
17 Shintaro Kaneki 8C Eternal, Horizon, Gargantua
18 Sachi Amma 8C Hydrangea (Pre 2016 Break), Asagimadara
19 Rei Kawamata 8C Asagimadara, Hydrangea
20 Takuya Nakajima 8C Babel, Hydrangea
21 Tomoa Narasaki 8C Asagimadara, Ashuradō
22 Kyota Hashimoto 8C Asagimadara, Vanitas
23 Tokio Muroi 8C Asagimadara
24 Makoto Yamauchi 8C Orochi
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+ Tokoyo, Emotion, Kage, Utsushiyo
37 Hibiki Yamauchi 8B+ The Never Ending Story (Part 1+2), Minerva, Emotion
38 Masanobu Suzuki 8B+ Idea, Meikyoshisui, Borsalino
39 Inaba Oriya 8B+ Minerva, Decided
40 Chev Inaba 8B+ Prethem, Borsalino
41 Keita Watabe 8B+ Circus Elephant Syndrome, The Globalist
42 Keita Kurakami 8B+ Kakusei
43 Mito Shimokawa 8B+ Kakusei
44 Shinya Ando 8B+ Kakusei
45 Junta Sekiguchi 8B+ Kakusei
46 Yuki Miyashita 8B+ Kakusei
47 Yuta Kimoto 8B+ Utsushiyo
48 Yuji Fujiwaki 8B+ Mona Lisa
49 Atsushi Komiyama 8B+ Borsalino
50 Keita Mineoi 8B+ Utsushiyo
51 Kaito Watanabe 8B+ La Force du Destin
52 Rei Sugimoto 8B+ Amaterasu
53 Kazuya Matsui 8B+ Hōtō
54 Keita Dohi 8B+ Off the Wagon
55 Masato Zushi 8B+ Gakidō
56 Hiroto Shimizu 8B+ Utsushiyo
57 Sorato Anraku 8B+ Hōtō
58 Minoru Nakano 8B+ Air