The New Japan dojo is considered by many to be the most elite training center in wrestling history. It has brought up many great wrestlers, numerous of whom have become legends. Below, I have assembled a list of wrestlers from the dojo who debuted with New Japan, and the year they started. Only New Japan trueborns (dojo graduates) and semi-trueborns (who started elsewhere, but were taken into the New Japan youth system) are listed, as well as original characters (such as Tiger Mask).
1972: Hiroaki Hamada (Gran Hamada), Tetsuo Sekikawa (Mr. Pogo), Makoto Arakawa (Don Arakawa), Masanobu Kurisu, Yoshiaki Fujiwara
1973: Kuniaki Kobayashi, Masashi Ozawa (Killer Khan)
1974: Mitsuo Yoshida (Riki Choshu)
1976: Satoru Sayama (Tiger Mask)
1977: George Takano (The Cobra)
1978: Ryuma Go, Akira Maeda, Junji Hirata, Hiroyuki Saito (Hiro Saito)
1980: Shinichi Nakano, Norio Honaga
1981: Fumihiro Niikura, Shunji Kosugi, Tiger Mask (Satoru Sayama), Black Cat, Nobuhiko Takada, Yoshiaki Yatsu, Shunji Nakano
1982: Kazuo Yamazaki
1983: Tatsutoshi Goto, The Cobra (George Takano)
1984: Keiichi Yamada (Jushin Thunder Liger), Naoki Sano, Hirokazu Hata, Shinji Sasazaki, Shinya Hashimoto, Super Strong Machine (Junji Hirata), Masahiro Chono, Keiji Muto, Akira Nogami (AKIRA)
1985: Yuji Funaki (Masakatsu Funaki)
1986: Kensuke Sasaki, Kenichi Oya (Hisakatsu Oya), Akira Katayama, Osamu Matsuda (El Samurai), Takayuki Iizuka (Takashi Iizuka), Hiroshi Hase
1988: Minoru Suzuki
1989: Jushin Thunder Liger (Keiichi Yamada), Takeshi Misawa
1990: Michiyoshi Ohara, Koji Kanemoto
1991: Hiroyoshi Yamamoto (Hiroyoshi Tenzan), Osamu Nishimura, Satoshi Kojima
1992: El Samurai (Osamu Matsuda), Shinjiro Otani, Tiger Mask (Koji Kanemoto), Tatsuhito Takaiwa, Yuji Nagata, Tokimitsu Ishizawa (Kendo Kashin), Manabu Nakanishi
1994: Tadao Yasuda, Yutaka Yoshie
1996: Masakazu Fukuda, Kazuyuki Fujita
1997: Kendo Kashin (Tokimitsu Ishizawa), Shinya Makabe
1999: Katsuyori Shibata, Wataru Inoue, Hiroshi Tanahashi
2000: Kenzo Suzuki
2001: Katsushi Takemura, Dolgorsuren Serjbudee (Blue Wolf)
2002: Toru Yano, Shinsuke Nakamura, Naofumi Yamamoto, Heat (Minoru Tanaka), Ryusuke Taguchi
2003: Hiroshi Nagao, Hirooki Goto, Akiya Anzawa
2004: Yujiro Takahashi (Yujiro)
2006: Mitsuhide Hirasawa, Prince Devitt, Tetsuya Naito
2008: Kazuchika Okada, Nobuo Yoshihashi
