Yoshiaki Fujiwara

Yoshiaki Fujiwara, born in Iwate Prefecture in 1949, is one of those figures whose reputation travels further than any single match. He built a long career across New Japan Pro-Wrestling, Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE, and both incarnations of the shoot-style Universal Wrestling Federation, and he did it not only as a wrestler but as a trainer and a promoter. That combination matters. Plenty of performers are remembered for what they did in the ring; far fewer shape the people who come after them, and fewer still keep running the business side at the same time. What strikes me most is that he also became a working actor and voice actor. Standing 185 cm with a face that reads as menace before he says a word, he found that his presence itself was a marketable instrument. I suspect that is the real throughline of his career: not raw power, but an ability to change the temperature of a room simply by being in it. Any short summary of him ends up feeling incomplete, and I think that is the point.

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Name (English)

Yoshiaki Fujiwara

Name (Japanese)

藤原喜明

Reading

ふじわら よしあき

Born

April 27, 1949 (age 77)

Origin

Iwate Prefecture, Japan

Height

185 cm

Weight

102 kg

Occupation

actor / professional wrestler / seiyū

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Ox

Agency

Water Orion

Debut

1972-11-12

Works summary

Appearances

144 (1976–2026)

By year (titles with a known year)

1976: 1, 1978: 1, 1991: 1, 1994: 2, 1995: 6, 1996: 3, 1997: 4, 1998: 9, 1999: 9, 2000: 3, 2001: 1, 2002: 2, 2003: 6, 2004: 8, 2005: 5, 2006: 4, 2007: 2, 2008: 7, 2009: 4, 2010: 9, 2011: 7, 2012: 8, 2013: 3, 2014: 5, 2015: 4, 2016: 2, 2017: 1, 2018: 4, 2019: 1, 2020: 1, 2021: 2, 2022: 1, 2023: 3, 2024: 1, 2026: 1, year unknown: 13

Debut work

二人のアステカイザー

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://fujiwarakumicyou.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiaki%20Fujiwara
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%97%A4%E5%8E%9F%E5%96%9C%E6%98%8E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3549385

Tags

• Iwate Prefecture
• actor
• professional wrestler
• seiyū

Last updated

September 29, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Works and profile fields sourced from Wikipedia reflect content as of 2026-08-26. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.