Mukkun, Kamochan, Puchan (tv-asahi.co.jp, 17 Sep 2022; konami.com, 01 Apr 2017)

Athlete

Physical Education - Nippon Sport Science University : Tokyo, JPN

Japanese

Konami Sports: Soka, JPN

Kenya Kobayashi [club], JPN; Hisashi Mizutori [national], JPN

His father Kenji Kamoto was a gymnast at national level in Japan. He achieved a top-10 finish at the national team trials for the 1984 Olympic Games. (sanspo.com, 24 Sep 2014; tarzanweb.jp, 19 Jul 2022)

2013

He fractured his jaw after a fall from the parallel bars at the 2019 All Japan Championships. He was sidelined for three weeks. (nikkansports.com, 23 Jun 2019; sanspo.com, 29 Jun 2019)

He began the sport at age five.

His father was a former gymnast and encouraged him to get into the sport.

He does interval training for around 50 minutes in the morning and trains gymnastics technique in the afternoon.

Being part of the Japanese team as a reserve athlete at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (tv-asahi.co.jp, 17 Sep 2022)

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, Japanese artistic gymnast Yusuke Tanaka. (konami.com, 21 Sep 2022; tv-asahi.co.jp, 17 Sep 2022)

His father. (datazoo.jp, 13 Aug 2014; tarzanweb.jp, 19 Jul 2022)

He eats a rice ball seven hours before a competition. (tv-asahi.co.jp, 17 Sep 2022)

"Always do things thoroughly." (tv-asahi.co.jp, 17 Sep 2022)

He was presented with an Excellence Award at the Yokohama Sports Merit Awards Ceremony in 2013 and 2016. (hamaspo.com, 15 Oct 2013, Mar 2017)

He received the Suginami District Sports Honorable Medal in 2014. (city.suginami.tokyo.jp, 25 Nov 2014)

He was given the Kanagawa Prefecture Sport Excellence Award in 2014. (nittai.ac.jp, 10 Jan 2015)

In 2010 he received a Rookie Award at the 45th Asahi TV Big Sports Awards in Japan. (jpn-gym.or.jp, 18 Dec 2010)