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Highest rating reached by age 22 ranking

Ordered by the highest year-end rating among the fiscal years in which the player was age 22 or younger. It shows how strong a player became while young.

Rank	Players	Rating	FY
1	Sota Fujii Active	2148	FY2023 (age 21)
2	Yoshiharu Habu Active	1986	FY1992 (age 22)
3	Akira Watanabe Active	1942	FY2006 (age 22)
3	Takumi Ito Active	1942	FY2023 (age 21)
5	Makoto Nakahara	1916	FY1968 (age 21)
6	Masayuki Toyoshima Active	1913	FY2012 (age 22)
7	Toshiyuki Moriuchi Active	1905	FY1991 (age 21)
8	Nagisa Fujimoto Active	1890	FY2025 (age 20)
9	Tatsuya Sugai Active	1889	FY2014 (age 22)
10	Koji Tanigawa Active	1883	FY1984 (age 22)
11	Shota Chida Active	1865	FY2016 (age 22)
12	Takuya Nagase Active	1849	FY2013 (age 21)
13	Nobuyuki Yashiki Active	1839	FY1990 (age 19)
14	Yasumitsu Satoh Active	1836	FY1990 (age 21)
15	Yuuki Sasaki Active	1833	FY2016 (age 22)
16	Taku Morishita Active	1832	FY1987 (age 21)
17	Yoshikazu Minami Active	1829	FY1985 (age 22)
17	Yasuaki Tsukada Active	1829	FY1985 (age 21)
19	Koichi Fukaura Active	1823	FY1993 (age 22)
19	Yasuhiro Masuda Active	1823	FY2017 (age 20)
21	Shinichiro Hattori Active	1819	FY2021 (age 22)
22	Takayuki Yamasaki Active	1814	FY2002 (age 22)
23	Tetsuro Itodani Active	1811	FY2010 (age 22)
23	Seiya Kondou Active	1811	FY2018 (age 22)
25	Satoshi Murayama	1810	FY1991 (age 22)
26	Toshiaki Kubo Active	1809	FY1997 (age 22)
27	Tadahisa Maruyama Active	1807	FY1991 (age 21)
28	Masataka Goda Active	1806	FY1992 (age 22)
29	Shingo Sawada Active	1802	FY2013 (age 22)
30	Hisashi Namekata Active	1799	FY1995 (age 22)
31	Akira Shima Active	1782	FY1984 (age 22)
32	Ayumu Matsuo Active	1779	FY2001 (age 22)
33	Hirotoshi Ueno Active	1778	FY2025 (age 22)
34	Hiroyuki Miura Active	1777	FY1995 (age 22)
34	Shintaro Saito Active	1777	FY2015 (age 22)
36	Takashi Abe Active	1775	FY1989 (age 22)
37	Manabu Senzaki Active	1771	FY1990 (age 20)
38	Mirai Aoshima Active	1770	FY2016 (age 22)
39	Osamu Nakamura Active	1767	FY1984 (age 22)
40	Chikara Akutsu Active	1764	FY2004 (age 22)
40	Akira Inaba Active	1764	FY2010 (age 22)
42	Atsushi Miyata Active	1758	FY2003 (age 22)
43	Keiichi Sanada Active	1757	FY1993 (age 21)
44	Daisuke Nakagawa Active	1756	FY1989 (age 21)
44	Akihito Hirose Active	1756	FY2008 (age 22)
46	Kiyozumi Kiriyama	1755	FY1968 (age 21)
47	Kouru Abe Active	1748	FY2013 (age 19)
48	Daisuke Suzuki Active	1747	FY1996 (age 22)
49	Eisaku Tomioka Active	1742	FY1986 (age 22)
50	Hiroki Nakata	1741	FY1986 (age 22)

Ratings are this site's own calculations (official games since FY1964; each fiscal year is scaled so that the average is 1600). Only fiscal years with 20 or more games are counted; the current year is excluded. Age is the player's age in that fiscal year.

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