All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling
The All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling Corporation, established in 1968, was the successor to the "All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling Association", which had been formed in August 1955, to oversee the plethora of women's wrestling promotions that had sprung up in Japan following a tour in November, 1954, by Mildred Burke and her World Women's Wrestling Association (WWWA). These promotions included the "All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling Federation", and the "All Japan Women's Wrestling Club", started in 1948, which was the first women's wrestling promotion in Japan. For a time the Club pushed female wrestling as a legitimate sport, booking sporting arenas.