He participated at the Lion's Gate Project, a developmental branch of professional wrestling promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) which hosted its sixth event on June 15, 2017, where he teamed up with Dinosaur Takuma in a losing effort to Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Tiger Mask.

[7] On the first night of the AJPW New Year Wars 2021, on January 2, he teamed up with Fuminori Abe as Astronauts and defeated Ikuto Hidaka and Koji Iwamoto.

On the twelfth night from November 11 2017, he teamed up with Daisuke Sekimoto in a losing effort to Naomichi Marufuji and Takashi Sugiura.

[12] Nomura participated in several signature events promoted by BJW such as the Saikyo Tag League, making his first appearance at the 2016 edition, where he teamed up with Hideki Suzuki, placing themselves in the Strong Style Block, finishing with no points after competing against the teams of Kohei Sato and Shuji Ishikawa, Daisuke Sekimoto and Yuji Okabayashi, and Speed Of Sounds (Tsutomu Oosugi and Hercules Senga).

[15] Nomura made his first appearance in the Ikkitousen Strong Climb event, at the 2018 edition, where he placed himself in the Block A, and scoring a total of two points after competing against Daichi Hashimoto, Yasufumi Nakanoue, Ryota Hama, Hideyoshi Kamitani and Yuya Aoki.