Hiroshi Hase Hiroshi Hase ( May 5 , 1961 ) is a retired Japan ese professional wrestler who worked for New Japan Pro Wrestling and All Japan Pro Wrestling , prior to transitioning to a position in the Japanese parliament . He currently holds the position of chairman for the PWF , which is the governing body for all championships in All Japan Pro Wrestling . Amateur wrestling career . 1984 Summer Olympics . Hase started his career as an amateur wrestler , representing Japan at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles . He placed ninth in the Greco - Roman wrestling tournament , making him one of the Top 10 Olympic wrestlers that year . Professional wrestling career . Early years ( 1986 – 1987 ) . Originally trained by Riki Chōshū , Hiroshi Hase began his pro wrestling career in February 1986 , at Carlos Colón ' s World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico . Later that year , Hase went up to Calgary , where he was trained by Stu Hart and Mr . Hito , and wrestled in Stampede Wrestling , under a mask , in a tag team known as the Viet Cong Express with Fumihiro Niikura , with whom he held the Stampede International Tag Team Championship . By 1987 , he started to wrestle under his name and unmasked in Stampede Wrestling . By the end of 1987 , Hase would return to Japan . New Japan Pro Wrestling ( 1987 – 1996 ) . When he returned to Japan , Hase wrestled for NJPW ' s junior heavyweight division , winning the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship twice between December 27 , 1987 and March 16 , 1989 . In June 1989 , Hase and Takayuki Iizuka went to the Soviet Union to be trained in sambo , where he learned one of his signature moves , the uranage . He is one of a handful of wrestlers , Japanese or American , to successfully graduate from the junior heavyweight to heavyweight class . In the 1990s , Hase had many memorable encounters with famous Japanese talents first in New Japan , and later All Japan . Hase would form a successful tag team with Kensuke Sasaki in March 1990 , winning the IWGP Tag Team Championship twice between November 1 , 1990 and March 6 , 1991 . Hase was involved in a classic December 14 , 1992 encounter with The Great Muta , in which the " Muta Scale " was created , due to the incredible amount of blood shed by Muta . Hase and Keiji Mutoh were also regular tag team partners ; they won the IWGP Tag Team Championship twice between November 5 , 1991 and November 25 , 1994 , including a victory over The Steiner Brothers , and won the Super Grade Tag League twice in 1993 and 1994 . As Mutoh became established as a singles wrestler through his holding of the IWGP Heavyweight Championship , however , Hase was left behind , and was only able to hold the WCW International World Heavyweight Championship ( which briefly replaced the NWA World Heavyweight Championship ) for eight days in March 1994 . In July 1995 , Hiroshi Hase was elected into the Japanese House of Councillors as the Senior Vice Minister of Education , Culture , Sports , Science and Technology . Hase is one of a number of professional wrestlers to transition into politics , other notables being predecessor Antonio Inoki , and later Atsushi Onita and Great Sasuke . The following year he announced his retirement from New Japan , only to jump to the rival All Japan Pro Wrestling . His last New Japan bout as a New Japan wrestler was against Kensuke Sasaki on January 4 , 1996 . One of the main reasons Hase left New Japan Pro Wrestling , was because in 1995 , he recruited a young amateur wrestler named Hiromitsu Gompei into New Japan Pro Wrestling , after convincing his parents that they will watch for their son ' s safety . Sometime after an altercation with Kensuke Sasaki at the Dojo , Gompei died , forcing Hase to be the bearer of bad news to his parents . Hase claimed there was a giant cover - up in the young man ' s death . All - Japan Pro Wrestling ( 1996 – 2006 ) . After a brief hiatus , he made his return to the ring in All Japan Pro Wrestling in November 1996 . In All Japan , Hase did not contend for titles again despite his name recognition , as he made politics his full - time job . In 2001 he was re - elected by his constituency in Ishikawa Prefecture . The same year he founded the multi - promotional Bad Ass Translate Trading stable with Mutoh , Taiyō Kea and Jinsei Shinzaki ; Hase and Mutoh reformed their team to battle Jun Akiyama and Yuji Nagata on October 8 , the rising stars of their respective promotions ( NOAH and NJPW ) , and were defeated in a ceremonial passing of the torch match that highlighted the advancement of professional wrestling in Japan since it was permanently established in 1951 . When Mutoh ( along with Satoshi Kojima and Kendo Ka Shin ) jumped to All Japan the following year , Hase was seen as having influenced them ( if not Mutoh at least ) in their decision . Antonio Inoki , who had once preceded Hase to the Japanese Diet , blasted Hase and suggested that he resign his position in the Diet , but nothing came out of this . Hase ' s final match occurred on August 27 , 2006 . He tagged with Katsuhiko Nakajima & Satoshi Kojima to face TARU , Kohei Suwama , & " brother " YASSHI of the Voodoo Murderers . He pinned YASSHI with a Northern Light Suplex for the victory , ending his in - ring career after 20 years . A week later , he was elected into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame . Retirement . On July 10 , 2007 , Hase took over the duty of the PWF chairman , after Stan Hansen ( who held the position since 2000 ) voluntarily resigned from the position . In August 2009 , Hase lost his seat in the Japanese Diet , but regained his seat in a different block .