Kohaku

Okay, "Kohaku", the ring name she took in 2022 after wrestling as Mikoto Shindo, is one of those names that sounds like it belongs in a poem, not a wrestling ring, and that gap is exactly what makes her interesting to me. Born in 2001 in Okayama, she joined Marvelous at 16 and has carved out real space in the Japanese pro wrestling world, which takes a certain kind of stubborn nerve that I genuinely respect. Standing just 147 cm, she has held Wave's singles and tag team titles, and honestly that mix of a soft name and hard-won belts only makes you pay more attention when she does show up.

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Kohaku (real name: Hana Iwaki; formerly known as Mikoto Shindo) is a Japanese professional wrestler born on April 17, 2001, in Okayama. She debuted with Marvelous That's Women Pro Wrestling in August 2018, won the Sendai Girls World Junior Championship in 2019, and joined Pro Wrestling Wave in 2022, where she has held both the Wave Single Championship and the Wave Tag Team Championship.

Name (English)

Kohaku

Name (Japanese)

狐伯

Reading

こはく

Born

April 17, 2001 (age 25)

Origin

Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan

Height

147 cm

Occupation

Professional wrestler

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Snake

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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8B%90%E4%BC%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105711516

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Last updated

October 18, 2026

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