Hana Kimura

Hana Kimura () (木村花, Kimura Hana; September 3, 1997 – May 23, 2020) was a Japanese professional wrestler. She worked for Japanese promotions such as World Wonder Ring Stardom and Wrestle-1, in addition to making appearances for foreign companies such as Ring of Honor, Pro-Wrestling: EVE, and some independent promotions in Mexico. She was a second-generation wrestler as the daughter of Kyoko Kimura.

Kimura was a cast member on the Fuji Television and Netflix reality television series Terrace House: Tokyo 2019–2020. Following a series of troubling tweets in which she addressed online bullying directed at her from Terrace House viewers, she died from suicide via hydrogen sulfide inhalation at her Tokyo apartment on May 23, 2020, at the age of 22.

Early life

Kimura was born in Yokohama on September 3, 1997, the daughter of professional wrestler Kyoko Kimura. Before she was one year old, her parents separated. While the identity of her father is not publicly known, her mother has said that he is Indonesian, for which Kimura was sometimes referred to as Indonesian-Japanese. She was bullied as a child due to her hafu heritage.

Professional wrestling career

Early career

Prior to her professional wrestling career, Kimura won the DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship one time on August 21, 2005, at a live event in Tokyo, then lost the title to her mother Kyoko. In the 2010s, Kimura was trained by Akira Nogami at Wrestle-1's Professional Wrestling University.