[3] Nine days later, Hoshino won the NWA Southern Junior Heavyweight Championship, he would hold the title until August 31.
In 1970, Hoshino teamed with Antonio Inoki in the first NWA World Tag League tournament which they won defeating Nick Bockwinkel and John Quinn in the finals.
By the mid-1970s, he and Yamamoto reformed the Yamaha Brothers team, although going individually by their Japanese ring names instead of their American gimmicks.
On January 21, 1979, The Yamaha Brothers entered the International Wrestling Enterprise and defeated Animal Hamaguchi and Great Kusetsu to win the IWA World Tag Team Championship.
Hoshino spent the remainder of his in-ring career in the low to midcard, rarely competing for championships or tournaments, only winning the Six-Man Tag Team Cup League with Antonio Inoki and Riki Choshu on December 7, 1988, after the trio defeated Tatsumi Fujinami, Masahiro Chono and Shinya Hashimoto to win the cup.
Hoshino would only wrestle with fellow young talents in tag and singles action for the remainder of his career, most notably against Jushin "Thunder" Liger, Norio Honaga and Shiro Koshinaka.
[10] On May 1, 2003, Hoshino returned to the ring in a 9-man New Japan alumnus Battle Royal which he co-won with former partner: Kotetsu Yamamoto.