WWE: Top 8 Japanese Wrestlers From The Past 30 Years

5. Orient Express

If you€™re talking about Mr. Fuji, you have to acknowledge a couple of his charges, Sato and Tanaka, the Orient Express. The duo were never able to capture tag gold, but they had a nice little feud with the Rockers and were human punching bags for the Legion of Doom. The team would switch it up a little after a year, when Sato left WWE and Fuji brought in the masked Kato. This presented a problem: the Orient Express had no Japanese-born members, including the manager. Like Fuji, Tanaka was born in Hawaii, and Kato (who was actually Paul Diamond under the mask) came by way of Yugoslavia. But at least that pairing meant the reunion of Badd Company. Neither combination caught traction in WWE, but they were a sound tag team to have filling out the ranks.
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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.