He is best known for his time with Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW), where he spent the majority of his career between 1995 and 2012 as a deathmatch wrestler.

On July 23, 1997, Yamakawa and Yoshihiro Tajiri defeated Kishin Kawabata and Takashi Ishikawa to win the vacant Tag Team Championship.

[20] Yamakawa lost the title to his tag team partner Honma in a 5-inch spike nail and barbed wire double board deathmatch in the quarter-final round of the 2000 BJ Grand Prix on January 2, 2000.

[25] Yamakawa debuted for FMW on April 11 as he, Tomoaki Honma and Winger unsuccessfully challenged TNR members Jado, Gedo and Koji Nakagawa for the WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship.

[28] Yamakawa and Tomoaki Honma lost the BJW Tag Team Championship to CZW's John Zandig and Nick Gage on June 2.

[29] On July 2, Yamakawa teamed with former rival Shadow WX to defeat CZW's Justice Pain and The Wifebeater.

[35] On March 18, Yamakawa participated in a tournament for the vacant BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship, competing against Wifebeater in the quarter-final round.

[1][37] Kanemura and Yamakawa unsuccessfully challenged Sekimoto and Teioh for the Hardcore Tag Team Championship in a rematch on January 2, 2002.

On August 19, 2009, Yamakawa teamed with Shadow WX, Jaki Numazawa and Abdullah Kobayashi as "Deathmatch Champions" and participated in an Eight-Man Tag Team Tournament, making to the final round, where they lost to Strong BJ (Daisuke Sekimoto, Yoshihito Sasaki, Shinya Ishikawa and Yuji Okabayashi).

He wrestled the first BJW match of 2012 by teaming with Yuichi Taniguchi to defeat Atsushi Ohashi and Masato Inaba.