All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling (1980-1989) Early career (1980-1983) Asuka joined
All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) in 1980 and had her professional debut on May 10 of that year. She was an immediate success, winning her first title, the
AJW Junior Championship, the following year, and the
AJW Championship in 1982.
Crush Gals (1983–1986) On January 4, 1983, Asuka was matched against her future partner and one half of the future Crush Gals,
Chigusa Nagayo. They had a standout performance and got a good reaction, which lead to them becoming partners. In 1985, the Crush Gals began a rivalry with
Dump Matsumoto's
heel stable, the Atrocious Alliance. Asuka and Nagayo's feud culminated in another match for the WWWA World Single Championship in 1989, which Asuka won. Asuka retired later that year.
Freelance (1994-2005) Asuka came out of retirement on November 20, 1994, and formed the Rideen Array, a faction consisting of fellow freelance wrestlers
Jaguar Yokota and Bison Kimura. She subsequently wrestled for many of the new women's promotions that arose at that time, such as
Jd' and
Arsion. She made one appearance for the WWF at the
1995 Survivor Series, teaming with
Bertha Faye,
Aja Kong, and
Tomoko Watanabe. They defeated the team of
Alundra Blayze,
Kyoko Inoue, Sakie Hasegawa and Chaparita Asari.
GAEA Japan (1998-2005) In 1998, she made a significant move when she joined
GAEA Japan, the promotion run by her former partner, Nagayo. Asuka began her GAEA career as a top
heel, feuding with Nagayo, and, in one storyline, winning control of the organization from her and eventually creating the Super Star Unit (SSU), a faction composed of veteran stars such as
Akira Hokuto,
Aja Kong, and
Las Cachorras Orientales, among others. However, near the end of 1999, Nagayo and Asuka united against a common rival, the
Mayumi Ozaki-led faction Team Nostradamus, and, the next spring, reformed Crush Gals. The storyline was huge news in Japan, and GAEA's show of May 14, 2000, featuring the debut of the reunited team, now called CRUSH 2000, was the biggest in the promotion's history. Due to a neck injury, Asuka announced her retirement on November 3, 2004. Her retirement was made official on April 3, 2005, where she and
Chigusa Nagayo teamed up for the last time to defeat
Chikayo Nagashima and Sugar Sato at GAEA's tenth anniversary show. ==Championships and accomplishments==