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Last updated on 2025-06-19

Japan
Japan Boxing Commission
Japanese Featherweight Title

(as of 2025-08-21)

* Bolded letters in the competitor's name, if any, indicate the surname/family name.

Baby Gustillo (Loret Gustillo)1947-08-29Tōkyō
Defeats Sakuma Tōsuke.
Gotō Hideo1950-05-01Ōsaka
Baby Gustillo [2]1950-09-16Kawaguchi, Saitama
Stripped of the title on 51-02-03 upon losing his bid for the lightweight title.
Gotō Hideo [2]1951-10-01Tōkyō
Defeats Tanaka Noboru; recognized by the Japan Boxing Commission upon its inception on 52-04-21.
Akanuma Akiyoshi1952-09-23Ōsaka
Tanaka Noboru1953-04-15Ōsaka
Ōkawa Hiroshi1954-03-13Tōkyō
Nakanishi Kiyoaki1956-08-30Tōkyō
Ōkawa Hiroshi [2]1957-04-19Tōkyō
Takayama Kazuo1958-06-17Tōkyō
Vacates on 63-07-04 upon moving up to the junior lightweight class.
Kikuchi Manzō1963-08-19Tōkyō
Defeats Kobayashi Hiroshi.
Masuko Yūji1964-01-06Tōkyō
Kobayashi Hiroshi1964-09-28Tōkyō
Wins WBC and WBA world super featherweight titles on 67-12-14; vacates Japanese title on 68-03-25.
Chiba Nobuo1968-03-25Tōkyō
Defeats Aoki Katsutoshi; wins OBF Title on 70-03-11 and vacates Japanese title next day.
Shibata Kuniaki1970-04-15Tōkyō
Defeats Sakurai Yasuo; wins WBC World Title on 70-12-11; vacates Japanese title on 71-02-01.
San Masanao1971-03-10Tōkyō
Defeats Utagawa Zensuke.
Shindō Kimio1972-01-27Tōkyō
Tad Okamoto (Okamoto Tadashi)1972-05-04Tōkyō
San Masanao [2]1972-09-09Ōdate, Akita
Ushiwakamaru Harada1974-01-04Ōdate, Akita
Flipper Uehara (Uehara Haruji)1975-03-09Naha
Yoshida Shūzo1976-10-10Kōfu, Yamanashi
Flipper Uehara [2]1976-12-11Naha
Vacates in 77.
Spider Nemoto (Nemoto Shigemitsu)1977-09-18Tōkyō
Defeats Adachi Shigeyoshi.
Yūshin Napunyi (Modest Napunyi Oduori)1982-01-26Tōkyō
Spider Nemoto [2]1982-05-27Tōkyō
Retires on 82-09-30.
Tanaka Toshiyuki (Godai Noboru)1982-11-08Tōkyō
Defeats Kuwabara Kuniyoshi.
Kuruma Eijirō1983-01-12Kashihara, Nara
Kobayashi Hiroyuki1983-11-01Tōkyō
Kuruma Eijirō [2]1984-03-24Amagasaki, Hyōgo
Kobayashi Hiroyuki [2]1984-12-04Ōsaka
Hisahiro Tatsunari1985-05-13Hiroshima
Kuruma Eijirō [3]1985-08-23Ōsaka
Chiba Arredondo (Roberto Arredondo)1985-11-28Tōkyō
Sugiya Mitsuru1986-02-25Tōkyō
Kuruma Eijirō [4]1986-08-23Himeji, Hyōgo
Retires in 86-12.
Sugiya Mitsuru1987-01-12Tōkyō
Defeats Iizumi Kenji; stripped of the title on 87-06-22 upon losing a non-title match.
Sugiya Mitsuru [2]1987-08-17Tōkyō
Defeats Jinde Yasuo; vacates on 89-01-12.
Asakawa Seiji1989-02-11Tōkyō
Defeats Kanō Kazuya.
Sono Toshikazu1990-11-16Kōbe
Vacates on 90-11-28.
Matsumoto Kōji1991-02-18Tōkyō
Defeats Watanabe Tsukasa.
Asakawa Seiji [2]1991-06-25Tōkyō
Vacates on 91-11-25.
Matsumoto Kōji [2]1992-02-11Tōkyō
Defeats Tamazaki Yoshikazu.
Hiranaka Nobutoshi1994-01-25Tōkyō
Vacates on 94-12-20 to focus on challenging for the world title.
Matsumoto Kōji [3]1995-03-28Tōkyō
Defeats Tamaki Atsushi; vacates on 96-09-27; wins OPBF Title on 96-11-05.
Koshimoto Takashi1996-11-04Shirahama, Wakayama
Defeats Tamaki Atsushi; vacates on 99-11-13.
Kimura Toshikage2000-03-12Tōkyō
Defeats Hagiwara Atsushi.
Yūji Gomez (Eugene Gomez)2001-03-11Yokohama
Sugama Eiichi2001-09-01Yokohama
Dainoshin Kuma (Kuma Dainoshin)2002-12-15Ōsaka
Enoki Hiroyuki2004-09-04Tōkyō
Vacates on 05-11; wins OPBF Title on 06-01-21.
Watanabe Kazuhisa2006-01-21Tōkyō
Defeats Abe Motokazu.
Umetsu Kōji2006-10-14Tōkyō
Takahiro2007-03-03Tōkyō
Defeats Umetsu Kōji; vacates on 08-08-12 to focus on challenging for the world title.
Matsuda Naoki2008-10-04Tōkyō
Defeats Sawanaga Masaki; vacates on 09-12 to focus on challenging for OPBF title; wins OPBF Title on 10-03-06.
Lee Ryol-li2010-02-06Tōkyō
Defeats Takayama Kazunori; vacates on 10-08-30; wins WBA World Super Bantamweight Title on 10-10-02.
Hosono Satoshi2010-11-08Tōkyō
Defeats Umetsu Kōji; vacates on 11-10-30 to focus on challenging WBA world title.
Amagasa Hisashi2011-12-19Tōkyō
Defeats Suzuki Tōru; vacates on 13-11-29.
Hosono Satoshi [2]2014-04-06Tōkyō
Defeats Ogata Yūki; vacates on 16-07-15.
Hayashi Shōta2016-09-24Nagoya
Defeats Ueno Noriyuki.
Saka Kōsuke2017-04-23Kariya, Aichi
Ōhashi Takenori2017-12-01Tōkyō
Minamoto Taiki2018-04-07Tōkyō
Vacates on 19-06-21.
Sagawa Ryō 2019-09-13 Tōkyō
Defeats Abe Reiya.
Maruta Hinata 2021-02-11Tōkyō
Abe Reiya 2022-05-15 Tōkyō
Also wins the vacant WBO Asia Pacific Title; vacates the Japanese title on 23-01-16.
Matsumoto Keisuke 2023-04-18 Tōkyō
Defeats Sagawa Ryō; also wins the vacant WBO Asia Pacific Title on 23-08-30 but vacates it on 23-12-01; stripped of the title on 25-03-24 when Matsumoto is hospitalized for suffering a seizure during his final weight cut early in the morning.
Abe Reiya 2025-06-19 Tōkyō
Defeats Ōku Yūya.

Sources: BoxNews.net, Boxing Senshu Meikan, Boxing News, Wikipedia, various Japanese sports newspaper websites, etc.

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