Birthday: January 15, 1917
Hometown: Tokyo, Japan
Family: Nekota Ginpachi, Mamoru Takamura
Occupation: Founder and Coach of Kamogawa Gym
Weight Class: Bantamweight (115 to 118 Pounds Weight Limit)
Style: Brawler/In-Fighter
Current Affiliation: Kamogawa Boxing Gym
Trainer: Himself
Date(s) Retired: 1947
Specialty/Skills/Signature Blows: Feints, Tekken/The Iron Fist (Bone Breaking Body Blows)
Kamogawa Genji is a deuteragonist in Hajime no Ippo. His influence on the story rivals that of Takamura Mamoru and Miyata Ichirou; all three inspire Makunouchi Ippo to continue boxing.
Kamogawa is the head coach of the Kamogawa Boxing Gym and is close friends with Nekota Ginpachi and Hama Dankichi. As a coach, he is strict and holds high expectations for his trainees but also genuinely cares for the well-being of his fighters, forging strong bonds with each of them through trust and spirit. He possesses an extremely sharp sense for boxing and a wealth of knowledge, able to give strategies to his fighters that often result in match turnabouts. Throughout the series, he is shown to be most proud of his two most prominent boxers: Takamura Mamoru and Makunouchi Ippo.
He is a retired boxer who founded the Kamogawa Boxing Gym. He acts as the trainer for both Ippo and Takamura, as well as a cornerman for boxers under Shinoda Tomoyuki.
Kamogawa worked as a prizefighter in Japan shortly after World War II. He has exchanged blows with former prizefighter Nekota Ginpachi multiple times and was friends with fellow prizefighter and future trainer Hama Dankichi. During the American occupation of Japan, Kamogawa harbored strong feelings of national pride, refusing to accept food handouts.
Sometime later, Kamogawa opened his own boxing gym, where he trained Yagi-chan, the future manager of the gym, the then-OPBF Featherweight champion Miyata-san, and budding counter specialist Miyata Ichirou. By chance, he encountered Takamura Mamoru and convinced him to enter the world of boxing under his tutelage. Takamura then scouted Aoki Masaru, Kimura Tatsuya, and Makunouchi Ippo to the gym.
Though he chose not to train Itagaki Manabu, he is present in his matches as a cornerman. He is equally surprised at Itagaki's speed and boxing skills as he is at the talents of his own trainees.
Record:
Total fights: 8
Wins: 5
Wins by KO: 5
Losses: 2
Draws: 1
Championships: None
