Masato who won K-1 World Max in 2003 debuted as a professional kickboxer at AJKF.
At that time, On July 15, 1987, AJKF hold its first event at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.
For this reason, he could invite famous foreign kickboxers from Europe and North America including Maurice Smith, Rob Kaman, and Peter Smit.
The New Japan Kickboxing Federation (NJKF) was established by Makoto Fujita who was the chairman of AJKF.
In October 1997, All Japan Enterprize was bankrupted and AJKF lost its true body.
After the bankruptcy, some high-powered gyms established the board of directors and started managing AJKF.
Keita Kainuma the current AJKF Bantamweight and some famous kickboxers moved to J-NET because of this incident.
On June 1, 1998, Kaneda returned to a representative of AJKF, and it started controlling the kickboxing events again.
Actually, the event held by J-NET on February 2, many kickboxers from AJKF participated in it.
On June 22, Toshio Kaneda, the AJKF representative, was arrested for helping sham marriage for a Korean woman.
He was suspected of "making False Entries in the Original of Notarized Deeds"(Article 157) and "using it".
In addition, the manager of sham marriage was a criminal syndicate (yakuza), and AJKF was suspected as they had a relationship with yakuza because the building which the office of AJKF located accepted some front companies for organized crime operations.
At that day, the AJKF office was searched and seized, and Kaneda was relieved from his duty.