In April 2010 he reached the round of 16 of the 2010 WPA World Eight-ball Championship, where he lost to Ruslan Tschinachow.

In May 2011, he reached the semifinals of the 2011 WPA World Ten-ball Championship, and would defeat eventual champion Huidji Lake in the double elimination round.

At the 2011 WPA World Nine-ball Championship after wins against Karlo Dalmatin, Carlo Biado and Mark Gray he would proceed to the final.

[1] In February 2012, Akakariyama reached the knockout round of the 8-Ball World Cup and lost there against Roberto Gomez.

After being eliminated in the preliminary round at the 9-Ball World Championships in 2013 and 2014, he reached the main knockout again in 2015 and where he lost in the last 32 against Ko Ping-chung.