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>[Tokyo Joshi] Active high school wrestler Haru Kazashiro’s path to becoming a professional wrestler — growing up with wrestling as a way of life
>The new generation of Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling — the “NexGen.” The tournament was held two years in a row, in 2023 and 2024, and it was Haru Kazashiro who became the second-year winner. “There were almost no voices naming me as a favorite to win” (according to Kazashiro herself), yet she defeated the competition. We interviewed her following her impressive triumph. In the first half, we hear her story from growing up to becoming a professional wrestler, and about her passion for her wrestling moves.
>Haru Kazashiro is currently a high school senior. She made her debut in March 2023, at the end of her third year of junior high school.
>“I’m supposed to graduate next year, but I’m not thinking about employment… I’m thinking I’ll continue wrestling. I grew up in a family where wrestling was a normal thing to watch on TV or YouTube, and we would go to see DDT shows at Ryogoku Kokugikan every year. I still watch the DDT event when Kenny Omega came back (Ultimate Party 2019, November 3, 2019) over and over — it’s six and a half hours long (laughs). So wrestling was a natural path for me. I always thought I’d become a professional wrestler, and I applied to Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling when I was in my first year of junior high. At that time, I was already supposed to join the school’s brass band, so we decided I should prioritize that first. Later, when I finished junior high, I got in touch again and formally joined.”
>The debut match was held at Ariake Coliseum. On March 19, 2023, a match featuring Mahiro Kiryu, Wakana Uehara, HIMAWARI, and Shino Suzuki vs Kaya Toribami, Toga, Haru Kazashiro, and Runa Okubo was a card filled with the generation later called “NexGen.”
>[Tokyo Joshi] Active high school wrestler Haru Kazashiro’s path to becoming a professional wrestler — growing up with wrestling as a way of life
>The new generation of Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling — the “NexGen.” The tournament was held two years in a row, in 2023 and 2024, and it was Haru Kazashiro who became the second-year winner. “There were almost no voices naming me as a favorite to win” (according to Kazashiro herself), yet she defeated the competition. We interviewed her following her impressive triumph. In the first half, we hear her story from growing up to becoming a professional wrestler, and about her passion for her wrestling moves.
>Haru Kazashiro is currently a high school senior. She made her debut in March 2023, at the end of her third year of junior high school.
>“I’m supposed to graduate next year, but I’m not thinking about employment… I’m thinking I’ll continue wrestling. I grew up in a family where wrestling was a normal thing to watch on TV or YouTube, and we would go to see DDT shows at Ryogoku Kokugikan every year. I still watch the DDT event when Kenny Omega came back (Ultimate Party 2019, November 3, 2019) over and over — it’s six and a half hours long (laughs). So wrestling was a natural path for me. I always thought I’d become a professional wrestler, and I applied to Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling when I was in my first year of junior high. At that time, I was already supposed to join the school’s brass band, so we decided I should prioritize that first. Later, when I finished junior high, I got in touch again and formally joined.”
>The debut match was held at Ariake Coliseum. On March 19, 2023, a match featuring Mahiro Kiryu, Wakana Uehara, HIMAWARI, and Shino Suzuki vs Kaya Toribami, Toga, Haru Kazashiro, and Runa Okubo was a card filled with the generation later called “NexGen.”
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