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All Asia Tag Team Championship

The is a professional wrestling tag team title in Japanese promotion All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW). Originally, it was the top tag team title in the JWA, but its status became secondary once the NWA International Tag Team Championship was brought from the United States. It is currently one of two tag team titles in AJPW, along with the World Tag Team Championship. It is also the current oldest active title in Japan.

The current champions are Musashi and Seiki Yoshioka who are in their second reign as a team as well as individually.

History

The title was created on November 16, 1955, in the Japan Wrestling Association (JWA) when King Kong Czaya and Tiger Joginder Singh defeated JWA founder Rikidōzan and Harold Sakata in a tournament final. It was abandoned in 1973 when the JWA closed, but was later revived in 1976 by AJPW in response to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) announcing the creation of its own version of the title.

Reigns

There have been a total of 129 official reigns and 34 vacancies, with the first 27 reigns from the JWA also being recognized by AJPW. There have been a total of 96 teams consisting of 118 distinctive champions who have won the championship. The current champions are Don Fujii and Masaaki Mochizuki who are in their first reign as a team and individually.

Combined reigns

As of , .

By team

By wrestler

*Combined defense statistics might be inaccurate in the case of the 1960s and 1970s when the titles were rarely defended or the documentation about title matches were uncertain.

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