All Japan Road Race Championship

All Japan Road Race Championship
The official All Japan Road Race logo
SportMotorcycle sport
Founded1967
CountryJapan
Most recent
champion(s)
Japan Katsuyuki Nakasuga (JSB1000)
Japan Kazuma Watanabe (ST1000)
Japan Haruki Noguchi (ST600)
Japan Hiroki Ono (J-GP3)

The All Japan Road Race Championship (全日本ロードレース選手権, Zen Nihon Rōdorēsu Senshuken) is the premiere motorcycle road racing championship in Japan. It is run by the Motorcycle Federation of Japan (MFJ) (日本モーターサイクルスポーツ協会) – the Japanese affiliate of the FIM.

History

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The MFJ was formed in 1961 and held its first motorcycle road race in 1967.

The Championship's premiere class for a number of years had been the 500ccm class but it was replaced by a superbike class in 1994. During the 2002 season the championship was used by some manufacturers to test their MotoGP prototypes. The prototypes usually won the races but were not eligible for points. The series now runs a small seven round schedule but has a large field of Japanese riders and bikes. Similar to Spain's CEV championship, Moto3 motorcycles are used in Japan.

Shinichi Ito at the 1993 Japanese Grand Prix

Champions

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Year 50 cm3 90 cm3 125 cm3 250 cm3 over 250 cm3
1967 Mitsuo Itoh Yasunori Shigeno Tsunehiro Masuda Keiji Yano Takashi Matsunaga
1968 Yoshiaki Kamiya Tadao Baba Masahiro Wada Takashi Matsunaga
1969 Yutaka Oda Morio Sumiya Hideo Kanaya Morio Sumiya
1970 Eiji Kondoh Yutaka Oda Toshio Ohwaki Hiroyuki Kawasaki
1971 Hideo Kanaya Izumi Sugimoto Toshio Ohwaki Hideo Kanaya
1972 Yutaka Oda Yutaka Oda
Year 125 cm3 250 cm3 350 cm3 500 cm3 750 cm3
1973 Shinji Sumiya Ken Nemoto
1974 Tatsumi Aoki Ikujiro Takaï
1975 Tadashi Ezaki Tadao Asami
1976 Yoshikazu Mouri Junzoh Satoh Ikujiro Takaï
1977 Hiroyuki Iida Osamu Suzuki Yoshikazu Mouri
1978 Koji Ueda Koji Ueda Iwao Ishikawa Shin'ichi Ueno
1979 Mitsuo Saitoh Keiji Kinoshita Masaru Mizutani
1980 Noriaki Ichinose Tadahiko Taira Osamu Suzuki
1981 Noriaki Ichinose Yasuaki Fujimoto Keiji Kinoshita
Year 125 cm3 250 cm3 500 cm3 TT-F1 TT-F3
1982 Noriaki Ichinose Teruo Fukuda Masaru Mizutani
1983 Jiroh Kuriya (Honda) Mitsuo Saito (Yamaha) Tadahiko Taira (Yamaha)
1984 Jiroh Kuriya (Honda) Masaru Kobayashi (Honda) Tadahiko Taira (Yamaha) Shunji Yatusushiro (Honda) Tadashi Ezaki (Yamaha)
1985 Hisashi Unemoto (Honda) Masaru Kobayashi (Honda) Tadahiko Taira (Yamaha) Satoshi Tsujimoto (Suzuki) Yoichi Yamamoto (Honda)
1986 Kenichi Yoshida (Honda) Shinji Katayama (Yamaha) Keiji Kinoshita (Honda) Satoshi Tsujimoto (Suzuki) Yoichi Yamamoto
1987 Hisashi Unemoto (Honda) Masahiro Shimizu (Honda) Norihiko Fujiwara (Yamaha) Yukiya Ohshima (Suzuki) Masumitsu Taguchi
1988 Masayuki Hirose (Honda) Toshihiko Honma (Yamaha) Norihiko Fujiwara (Yamaha) Shoji Miyazaki (Honda) Toshinobu Shiomori (Yamaha)
1989 Fuyuki Yamazaki (Honda) Tadayuki Okada (Honda) Norihiko Fujiwara (Yamaha) United States Doug Polen (Suzuki) United States Doug Polen (Suzuki)
1990 Kazuto Sakata (Honda) Tadayuki Okada (Honda) Shinichi Ito (Honda) Ken'ichiro Iwahashi (Honda) Ryuji Tsuruta (Kawasaki)
1991 Masafumi Ono (Honda) Tadayuki Okada (Honda) Australia Peter Goddard (Yamaha) Shoji Miyazaki (Honda) Katsuyoshi Takahashi (Yamaha)
1992 Akira Saito (Honda) Tetsuya Harada (Yamaha) Australia Daryl Beattie (Honda) Shoichi Tsukamoto (Kawasaki)
1993 Yoshiaki Katoh (Yamaha) Tohru Ukawa (Honda) Norick Abe (Honda) Keiichi Kitagawa (Kawasaki)
Year 125 cm3 250 cm3 Superbike S-NK Superstock 600
1994 Ken Miyasaka (Honda) Tohru Ukawa (Honda) Wataru Yoshikawa (Yamaha)
1995 Youichi Ui (Yamaha) Noriyasu Numata (Suzuki) Takuma Aoki (Honda)
1996 Masao Azuma (Honda) Noriyasu Numata (Suzuki) Takuma Aoki (Honda)
1997 Takashi Akita (Yamaha) Daijiro Kato (Honda) Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha)
1998 Hideyuki Nakajoh (Honda) Shinya Nakano (Yamaha) Shinichi Ito (Honda)
1999 Hideyuki Nakajoh (Honda) Naoki Matsudo (Yamaha) Wataru Yoshikawa (Yamaha) Manabu Kamada (Suzuki)
2000 Tomoyoshi Koyama (Yamaha) Shinichi Nakatomi (Honda) Hitoyasu Izutsu (Kawasaki) Ryuji Tsuruta (Kawasaki)
2001 Hideyuki Nakajoh (Honda) Taro Sekiguchi (Yamaha) Akira Ryo (Suzuki) Keiichi Kitagawa (Suzuki) Yuichi Takeda (Honda)
Year 125 cm3 250 cm3 Superbike JSB/S-NK Superstock 600
2002 Hideyuki Nakajoh (Honda) Tekkyu Kayoh (Yamaha) Atsushi Watanabe (Suzuki) Tatsuya Yamaguchi (Honda) Ryuichi Kiyonari (Honda)
Year 125 cm3 250 cm3 JSB1000 GP-Mono Superstock 600
2003 Shuhei Aoyama (Honda) Hiroshi Aoyama (Honda) Keiichi Kitagawa (Suzuki) Yoshiteru Konishi (Honda)
2004 Hideyuki Nakajoh (Honda) Yuki Takahashi (Honda) Hitoyasu Izutsu (Honda) Takeshi Tsujimura (Honda)
2005 Hiroyuki Kikuchi (Honda) Shuhei Aoyama (Honda) Shinichi Ito (Honda) Takashi Yasuda (Honda)
2006 Takaaki Nakagami (Honda) Ryuji Yokoe (Yamaha) Shinichi Ito (Honda) Tasuku Yamashita(Yamaha) Takashi Yasuda (Honda)
2007 Hiroomi Iwata (Honda) Youichi Ui (Yamaha) Atsushi Watanabe (Suzuki) Takayoshi Mori (Honda) Yoshiteru Konishi (Honda)
2008 Hiroyuki Kikuchi (Honda) Takumi Takahashi (Honda) Katsuyuki Nakasuga (Yamaha) Yasutomo Nomura (Honda) Yoshiteru Konishi (Honda)
2009 Hiroyuki Kikuchi (Honda) Youichi Ui (Yamaha) Katsuyuki Nakasuga (Yamaha) Kazuki Hanafusa (Yamaha) Yusuke Teshima (Honda)
Year J-GP3 J-GP2 JSB1000 GP-Mono Superstock 600
2010 Hikari Okubo (Honda) Yoshiteru Konishi (Honda) Kousuke Akiyoshi (Honda) Kenta Fujii (Honda) Tatsuya Yamaguchi (Honda)
2011 Kenta Fujii (Honda) Takaaki Nakagami (Honda) Kousuke Akiyoshi (Honda) Tetsuta Nagashima (Honda) Tatsuya Yamaguchi (Honda)
2012 Masaki Tokudome (Honda) Kazuki Watanabe (Kawasaki) Katsuyuki Nakasuga (Yamaha) Thailand Decha Kraisart (Yamaha)
2013 Sena Yamada (Honda) Kohta Nozane (Honda) Katsuyuki Nakasuga (Yamaha) Kazuma Watanabe (Honda)
2014 Sena Yamada (Honda) Yuki Takahashi (Moriwaki) Katsuyuki Nakasuga (Yamaha) Ryuta Kobayashi (Honda)
2015 Ryo Mizuno (Honda) Yuki Takahashi (Moriwaki) Katsuyuki Nakasuga (Yamaha) Ryuji Yokoe (Yamaha)
2016 Masaki Tokudome (Honda) Naomichi Uramoto (Suzuki) Katsuyuki Nakasuga (Yamaha) Ikuhiro Enokido (Honda)
2017 Yuta Date (Honda) Ryo Mizuno (HARC-PRO) Takumi Takahashi (Honda) Keisuke Maeda (Yamaha)
2018 Genki Nakajima (Honda) Ryosuke Iwato (Moriwaki) Katsuyuki Nakasuga (Yamaha) Yuki Okamoto (Yamaha)
2019 Sho Hasegawa (Honda) Teppei Nagoe (HARC-PRO) Katsuyuki Nakasuga (Yamaha) Tomoyoshi Koyama (Honda)
Year J-GP3 (Moto3) Superstock 1000 JSB1000 (Superbike) Superstock 600
2020 Takeru Murase (Honda) Yuki Takahashi (Honda) Kohta Nozane (Yamaha) Yuki Okamoto (Yamaha)
2021 Hiroki Ono (Honda) Kazuma Watanabe (Honda) Katsuyuki Nakasuga (Yamaha) Haruki Noguchi (Honda)
2022 Hiroki Ono (Honda) Kazuma Watanabe (Honda) Katsuyuki Nakasuga (Yamaha) Kouta Arakawa (Honda)
2023 Hiroki Ono (Honda) Kazuma Watanabe (Honda) Katsuyuki Nakasuga (Yamaha) Keito Abe (Yamaha)

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References

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  1. ^ "MFJ Road Race Results". motoracing-japan.com. Archived from the original on 30 December 2015. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
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