Below are the results for the top tournaments in Japan. There are several tournaments through out the year however due to the amount we focus on just the top 4 mens and the All Japan Womens.




Japan Tournament Results



The top 4 tournaments in Japan in terms of difficulty and ranking are

                     1. The All Japan open tournament (Tokyo)
                     2. The All Japan weight catergory tournament (Osaka)
                     3. The All Kanto open (East Japan)
                     4. The All Kansai open (West Japan)

Japan's top female competitors were determined at the Kyokushin Festival tournament held every year in Kyoto, however the competition has been combined with All Japan Mens held every year in Osaka from 2010.





2010 June All Japan Women's Championships


Lightweight -50kg

1st Asuka Ikeda   2nd Kana Mizumoto   No 3rd due to only 4 competitors

Middleweight -55kg

1st Satomi Shimada   2nd Ayaka Shibuya  3rd Miyo Ito

Heavyweight +55kg

1st Yuma Tasaki  2nd Tamaki Kawasaki  3rd Yuki Kobayashi


2010 June Osaka All Japan Weight

Championships


Please note that the weight requirements for the All Japan Weight Catergory Championships dropped by 5kg this year.

Lightweight 65kg-

1st Yuya Fujita   2nd Yuta Sawamura   3rd Masato Oosugi

Middleweight 75kg-

1st Yuta Takahashi   2nd Yuki Fukui  3rd Tomohiko Matsuoka

Light heavyweight 85kg-

1st Tariel Nikoleishvili (Russia)  2nd Zenjuro Mori  3rd Yoshikazu Muraoka

Heavyweight 85kg+

1st Shoki Arata  2nd Makoto Taniguchi   3rd Hideo Sawada (Seido)



                2009 All Japan Top 8


      2009 All Japan Final, K. Tanaka vs A. Navarro      click here

      2009 All Japan 3rd & 4th, M. Akaishi vs H. Kitachi;      click here



                   1. Kentaro Tanaka
                   2. Alejandro Navarro (Spain)
                   3. Makoto Akaishi
                   4. Hiroyuki Kitachi
                   5. Darmen Sadvokasov (Russia)
                   6. Yoshitatsu Beppu
                   7. Zenjuro Mori
                   8. Eduardo Tanaka (Brazil)



2009 All Kansai open


1st Yuya Akizuki,   2nd Seijun Kinoshita,  3rd Masanobu Tanaka


2009 All Kanto open


1st Daiki Kobayashi,   2nd Satoshi Araki,  3rd Naoki Ichimura


2009 June Osaka All Japan Weight

Championships

Lightweight 70kg-

1st Yuzo Suzuki   2nd Tomohiko Matsuoka   3rd Takaichi Onuma

Middleweight 80kg-

1st Yuta Mita   2nd Yuichi Sugiura (Seido)  3rd Masaru Shitanda

Light heavyweight 90kg-

1st Yoshitatsu Beppu   2nd Osamu Sumitani  3rd Kyohei Yasujima

Heavyweight 90kg+

1st Tadakuni Tokuda   2nd Hideo Sawada (Seido)    3rd Tadateru Sano



                2008 All Japan Top 8


      2008 All Japan Final, Taniguchi vs Damyanov      click here



                   1. Makoto Taniguchi
                   2. Zahari Damyanov (Bulgaria)
                   3. Kentaro Tanaka
                   4. Hiroyuki Kitachi
                   5. Tatsuji Murata
                   6. Makoto Akaishi
                   7. Igor Teitokov (Russia)
                   8. Zenjuro Mori




Oct-2008 All Japan Womens Tournament, Kyoto


Lightweight -50kg

1st Ryoko Tahara   2nd Yukie Nemoto   3rd Chisa Nagasawa

Middleweight -55kg

1st Kanako Taniyama (Seido)   2nd Naoko Fukui  3rd Miyo Ito

Heavyweight +55kg

1st Yuma Tasaki   2nd Megumi Tomita  3rd Miyoko Kimura


2008 All Kanto open


1st Takuya Takeoka,   2nd Yoshitsugu Otani,  3rd Teppei Yamamoto


      2008 All Kanto Final      click here



2008 June Osaka All Japan Weight

Championships

Lightweight 65kg-

1st Roman Semchenko (Russia)   2nd Nikolay Khrush (Russia)   3rd Yuta Mita

Middleweight 75kg-

1st Yuzo Suzuki    2nd Tomohiko Matsuoka  3rd Takaichi Onuma

Light heavyweight 85kg-

1st Yoshitatsu Beppu   2nd Nurmagamed Mamedov (Russia)  3rd Yoshikazu Muraoka

Heavyweight 85kg+

1st Makoto Akaishi   2nd Zahari Damyanov (Bulgaria)    3rd Kentaro Aso



2007 All Japan Womens Tournament, Kyoto


Lightweight -50kg

1st Naoko Fukui   2nd Kana Mizumoto (Seido)   3rd Chisa Nagasawa

Middleweight -55kg

1st Miyoko Kimura    2nd Kanako Taniyama (Seido)  3rd Miyo Ito

Heavyweight +55kg

1st Megumi Tomita   2nd Tamaki Koshio  3rd Yuma Tasaki


2007 All Kanto open


1st Takaichi Onuma,   2nd Masato Takeda,  3rd Yoshitsugu Otani.



2007 All Kansai open


1st Keiji Higuchi,   2nd Yuya Akizuki,  3rd Seijun Kinoshita.



2007 June Osaka All Japan Weight

Championships

Lightweight

1st Yuki Fukui   2nd Yuya Fujita   3rd Makoto Ozaki

Middleweight

1st Yuzo Suzuki    2nd Yuto Watanabe   3rd Zenjuro Mori

Light heavyweight

1st Osamu Shiojima   2nd Kengo Shimizu   3rd Naoki Ichimura

Heavyweight

1st Makoto Taniguchi   2nd Makoto Akaishi    3rd Yuji Kogure




                2006 All Japan Top 8



38th All Japan final, Uchida Vs Artur

1. Yoshiaki Uchida
2. Artur Hovhannisian (Armenia)
3. Dimitry Lunev (Russia)
4. Krzysztof Habraszka (Poland)
5. Hioroyuki Kitachi
6. Yoshitatsu Beppu
7. Kentaro Tanaka
8. Makoto Ikemoto




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