December 1936: "Ship Captain Logs Boxers." An article about a mariner who was Japan’s “foremost boxing writer.” Talks about the scene and amusingly predicts that Japanese boxers will go nowhere. A photo of Captain Kaneko is included.

August 1938: “New Faces” column with section on Yoshio “Hank” Nakamura, who was actually Hawaiian. Killed in Europe during the war, there’s a lot of online confusion between him and the revered Japanese judoka of the same name, who died last year at the age of 100.

January 1940: Extensive profile on Nakamura in “Making the Grade."

April 1952: “Japan Invades World Boxing.” Unfortunate title given the era, but a long and fascinating look at the post-war boxing boom in Japan. Chock-full of names.

August 1952: “Boxing Mikado” feature article on Yoshio Shirai, first Japanese boxer to win a world title. Ring champ for almost three years.

December 1952: “Nat Fleischer Says” column with section on Shirai receiving the Ring belt. Fascinating letter from his manager.

December 1962: “A New Flyweight Champion." Report of Fighting Harada’s victory over Pone Kingpetch (‘‘It was the most exciting boxing match ever staged in Japan,” said Chairman Manabe of the Boxing Commission)

December 1963: Hiroyuki Ebihara KOs Pone Kingpetch in first round to become Ring/WBA/WBC flyweight champ.

August 1965: Harada beats Eder Jofre to become bantamweight champion. The beating left Jofre contemplating retirement.

July 1970: Feature on female Japanese promoter Haru Nagano, “The Eileen Eaton of the Orient."

September 1970: Guts Ishimatsu starts to appear in fight reports in 1969, but this is the first in-depth fight report with a photo. First title shot against Ismael Laguna in Panama.

November 1970: Profile of future Ring champ Kuniaki Shibata.

March 1971: Shibata defeats Vicente Saldivar to become Ring/WBC featherweight champion.

June 1971: Another mention of Ishimatsu in his draw against Masataka Takayama for the Japanese lightweight title. It’s just a blurb, but it’s interesting because all the fights covered on the page shows that The Ring was really paying attention to Japan at this point.

June 1973: Shibata defeats Ben Villaflor to become Ring/WBA junior lightweight champ.

December 1973: Account of Ishimatsu's spirited showing, despite suffering a stoppage defeat by Roberto Duran for the Ring and WBA lightweight titles

May 1975: Fight report for Ishimatsu vs. Ken Buchanan with the very stark headline, “Suzuki Defeats Buchanan”

March 1976: Ishimatsu's final defense, vs. Alberto Rojas, with some nice photos.

November 1976: “Fighting Harada Talks About Himself and Boxing."

January 1981: Report of Gushiken’s 13th and final defense

March 1993: “Best of a Nation” feature on Japan. Boxing writers rate best Japanese boxers in history (Harada is No. 1).

July 2013: “State of the Game” issue listing Naoya Inoue as “On the Way Up” at junior flyweight (he was still unrated at the time).

December 2013: Inoue enters The Ring ratings for the first time, No. 10 at junior flyweight, after outpointing Ryoichi Taguchi over 10 rounds in his fourth fight.

April 2016: Francisco Vargas vs. Takashi Miura, 2015 “Fight of the Year.” It's the first to feature a Japanese fighter.

May 2018: “Rising Sons” feature on history and new generation of Japanese fighters after first “Superfly” card. Covers Naoya Inoue (15-0 at the time), Daigo Higa, Kenshiro Teraji (called Ken Shiro at the time), Kosei Tanaka, Hiroto Kyoguchi and Ryuya Yamanaka.

September 2018: Fighter of the Month: Naoya Inoue, after stopping Jamie McDonnell in a round on his 118-pound debut.

February 2019: “Man on Fire” feature on Inoue – his first time on the cover and the first Japanese cover star of The Ring. Also, a “Best I Faced” column. Harada describes his best opponents.

September 2019: “Creating a Monster” cover feature on Inoue (cover art by George Morikawa).