SENDAI Girls' Pro Wrestling

Meiko Satomura, one of the co-founders of SENDAI Girls

Founded in 2005 by Meiko Satomura and Jinsei Shinzaki, SENDAI Girls' Pro Wrestling is a Japanese female wrestling promotion based in the city of Sendai, Miyagi in the Tohoku region.
It is also known by SGPW and Senjo.
Meiko Satomura was a successful female wrestler in the 2000's, wrestling for promotions like GAEA Japan where she was both a two time singles champion and two time tag team champion.
Jinsei Shinzaki, a male pro wrestler is the prsident of Michinoku Pro Wrestling. He wrestled in the US for the WWF and ECW.

At first, Satomura was the only experienced wrestler on the roster, and she served as not only a wrestler, but also the trainer and booker.
SENDAI held it's first show on July 9, 2006 at Sendai's Sun Plaza.
Because of the small roster, the matches consisted of Senjo's first four wrestlers making their debuts in singles matches against four experienced female wrestlers.

And because of the small roster size, most of their shows are SENDAI Girls versus other promotions, which over here would be like WWE and TNA wrestlers facing each other at a show, or WWE and ROH.

According to their website, their roster currently stands at:
DASH Chisako
Hiren
Meiko Satomura
Ryo Mizunami
Sendai Sachiko
Yukari Ishino

The SENDAI Girls website is here:
http://www.sendaigirls.jp/

Gaea

Gaea Japan was a well known Japanese women's professional wrestling promotion founded by Chigusa Nagayo in 1995.
During it's run, the promotion had ties with Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling (FMW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and even had it's own weekly show on The Wrestling Channel.
At a press conference on August 24, 1994, charter members Chigusa, KAORU, and Bomber Hikaru (Mitsuyo Mura) announced the formation of the promotion, and wasted no time in holding rookie auditions the same day.
The new promotion held its first show on April 15, 1995 at Tokyo's Korakuen Hall. "Memorial First Gong" was a sellout and GAEA went on to hold monthly shows at Korakuen and went on the road to hold events in other Japanese cities.
Some of the other wrestlers that worked for Gaea included Toshiyo Yamada, Meiko Satomura, Chikayo Nagashima, Sugar Sato and Carlos Amano.
One of the biggest events in Gaea's run was on December 27, 1999, with the reunion of 80's tag team sensations, the Crush Gals (Chigusa Nagayo and Lioness Asuka).
On April 10, 2005, GAEA's run ended at the appropriately titled, "Eternal Last Gong" ending in the place it began, Korakuen Hall.
At the show, Chigusa lost to her protégée, Meiko Satomura in the main event.
Chigusa Nagayo offically retired after the match.

Gaea Japan was the focus of the 2000 documentary "Gaea Girls", by Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams.

And here is part one of Mayumi Ozaki and Chikayo Nagashima wrestling Akira Hokuto and Maiko Matsumoto at GAEA, on April 29, 1997.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UiQH86pVgw
The video was posted by nagashimark on YouTube. You should really check out his channel, he's got a lot of good videos posted there.

Sugar Sato wrestling in Japan

Sugar Sato wrestled for GAEA in Japan .
Here we see her roughing up various opponents.

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