Eto set a new best of at the Golden Grand Prix in Tokyo in 2014, moving him to a new high of 26th on the world yearly lists. His first national title followed at the Japan Championships in June, but by the time of the Asian Games in September he could only manage a jump of for eleventh place. He was also down at national level, comgin third at the National Games. He was again strong in the early season in 2015, twice equalling his best to win at the Shizuoka International and place third at the Golden Grand Prix (behind Bogdan Bondarenko and Zhang Guowei. He did not reach such heights at the 2015 Asian Athletics Championships, but his jump of in the rain of Wuhan was still enough to win a gold medal for Japan – world leader Mutaz Essa Barshim surprised by finishing in third, some twenty centimetres off his best. He was the first Japanese man to win an Asian Championships high jump title since Shuji Ujino in 1985.