The Big Japan Tag Team Title was Big Japan's first title, created in 1997. The title was decided during the New Japan vs. Big Japan feud, with New Japan veteran, Kengo Kimura, a co-holder in the first champion team. Click each team's name to get a list of title defenses during their reign (if there is no link for a tandem, it means that they had no successful title defenses).
1. (6/3/97 @ Hakata Star Lane) Kengo Kimura & Takashi Ishikawa beat Shoji Nakamaki & Takashi Okano, Kendo Nagasaki & Satoru Shiga, Yoshihiro Tajiri & Yuichi Taniguchi, and Jado & Gedo (19:58) in a 5 Way Tag Scramble Match when Ishikawa used a Scorpion Deathlock on Okano (tournament final).
-- Vacated on 6/7/97 following a successful defense, when Kimura and Ishikawa argue and split up.
2. (7/23/97 @ Tokyo Korakuen Hall) Ryuji Yamakawa & Yoshihiro Tajiri beat Takashi Ishikawa & Kishin Kawabata (14:53) when Tajiri used a cradle on Kawabata (decision match).
3. (12/22/97 @ Isesaki Citizen Gymnasium) Jado & Gedo beat Ryuji Yamakawa & Yoshihiro Tajiri (22:38) when Jado pinned Yamakawa.
4. (1/2/98 @ Tokyo Korakuen Hall) Ryuji Yamakawa & Yoshihiro Tajiri (2) beat Jado & Gedo (16:38) when Yamakawa pinned Jado.
5. (3/4/98 @ Shimizu Memorial Gymnasium) Shadow WX & Shadow Winger beat Ryuji Yamakawa & Yoshihiro Tajiri (29:42) when WX pinned Yamakawa.
6. (8/9/98 @ Shin Kawasaki) Shoji Nakamaki & Ryuji Yamakawa beat Shadow WX & The Winger (16:30) when Nakamaki used an STF on Winger.
-- Vacated in 11/29/98 when Nakamaki leaves the company.
7. (12/5/98 @ Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium) Shadow WX & Tomoaki Honma beat Jason The Terrible & The Winger (20:11) when WX pinned Winger (decision match).
8. (7/31/99 @ Hakata Star Lane) Ryuji Yamakawa & Mike Samples beat Shadow WX & Tomoaki Honma (23:02) when Samples pinned Honma.
9. (9/7/99 @ Imabari Public Hall) Kamikaze & Shunme Matsuzaki beat Ryuji Yamakawa & Mike Samples (16:51) when Kamikaze pinned Yamakawa.
10. (1/7/00 @ Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium #2) Tomoaki Honma & Ryuji Yamakawa beat Kamikaze & Shunme Matsuzaki (18:06) when Honma used a Fire Thunder on Matsuzaki.
11. (6/2/00 @ Nagaoka Welfare Hall) Zandig & Nick Gage beat Tomoaki Honma & Ryuji Yamakawa (14:14) when Gage pinned Honma.
12. (6/10/00 @ New Jersey, USA) Wifebeater & Justice Pain beat Zandig & Nick Gage when Wifebeater used a neck-hanging bomb on Zandig.
13. (7/2/00 @ Tokyo Korakuen Hall) Ryuji Yamakawa & Shadow WX beat Wifebeater & Justice Pain (15:40) when WX pinned Pain.
14. (9/15/00 @ Tokyo Korakuen Hall) Abdullah Kobayashi & Kamikaze beat Ryuji Yamakawa & Shadow WX (27:27) in a Light Bulb Board Death Match when Kamikaze used a German suplex hold on Yamakawa.
15. (1/28/01 @ Tokyo Korakuen Hall) MEN's Teioh & Daisuke Sekimoto beat Abdullah Kobayashi & Kamikaze (14:01) when Teioh pinned Kobayashi after the Fight 1.
16. (9/15/02 @ Hakata Star Lane) Daikokubo Benkei & Abdullah Kobayashi beat MEN's Teioh & Daisuke Sekimoto (20:34) when Kobayashi used the Cobado Driver Yamaarashi on Sekimoto.
