[10] He made an appearance for Wrestle-1 (W-1) at W-1 WRESTLE-1 Tour 2017 Flashing Summer from August 28, where he teamed up with Yuji Hino and fought Daisuke Sekimoto and Manabu Soya in a time-limit draw.

[11] Storm participated in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW)'s Lion's Gate Project, making his first appearance on the first edition of the event from February 25, 2016, where he fell short to Manabu Nakanishi.

[12] He also competed in the second project from May 19, where he teamed up with fellow Noah wrestlers Katsuhiko Nakajima, Masa Kitamiya and Maybach Taniguchi in a losing effort to NJPW's Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Manabu Nakanishi, Satoshi Kojima and Yuji Nagata.

[15] He continued to make sporadic appearances for the promotion such as at NOAH Navigation With Breeze 2014 on May 31, where he unsuccessfully challenged Daisuke Harada for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship.

[18] He scored his best performance at the 2016 edition, where he obtained eight points after competing against Minoru Suzuki, Toru Yano, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Lance Archer, Maybach Taniguchi, Akitoshi Saito and Takashi Iizuka.