The following champion history features the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.
Champion history[]
| Wrestler: | Reign: | Date: | Location: | Notes: | Defences: | Days: |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa | 1 | August 8, 1998 | Osaka, Japan | Otani and Takaiwa defeated Dr. Wagner, Jr. and Koji Kanemoto in a tournament final to become the first champions. | 2 | 149 |
| Dr. Wagner, Jr. and Kendo Kashin | 1 | January 4, 1999 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 96 | |
| The Great Sasuke and Jushin Thunder Liger | 1 | April 10, 1999 | Tokyo, Japan | 0 | 94 | |
| Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa | 2 | July 13, 1999 | Morioka, Japan | 4 | 348 | |
| Koji Kanemoto and Minoru Tanaka | 1 | June 25, 2000 | Tokyo, Japan | 3 | 254 | |
| El Samurai and Jushin Thunder Liger (2) | 1 | March 6, 2001 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 136 | |
| Gedo and Jado | 1 | July 20, 2001 | Sapporo, Japan | 6 | 286 | |
| Jushin Thunder Liger (3) and Minoru Tanaka (4) | 1 | May 2, 2002 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 119 | |
| Tsuyoshi Kikuchi and Yoshinobu Kanemaru | 1 | August 29, 2002 | Tokyo, Japan | 4 | 150 | |
| Jushin Thunder Liger (4) and Koji Kanemoto (2) | 1 | January 26, 2003 | Kobe, Japan | 6 | 282 | |
| Vacant | N/A | November 4, 2003 | N/A | The championship was vacated due to Kanemoto fracturing his left cheekbone. | N/A | N/A |
| Gedo and Jado | 2 | November 29, 2003 | Miyagi, Japan | Gedo and Jado defeated Hirooki Goto and Ryusuke Taguchi to win the vacant championship. | 2 | 104 |
| American Dragon and Curry Man | 1 | March 12, 2004 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 85 | |
| Gedo and Jado | 3 | June 5, 2004 | Osaka, Japan | 5 | 272 | |
| Koji Kanemoto (3) and Wataru Inoue | 1 | March 4, 2005 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 71 | |
| Hirooki Goto and Minoru (3) | 1 | May 14, 2005 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 281 | |
| El Samurai (2) and Ryusuke Taguchi | 1 | February 19, 2006 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 139 | |
| Gedo and Jado | 4 | July 8, 2006 | Shizuoaka, Japan | 2 | 298 | |
| Dick Togo and Taka Michinoku | 1 | May 2, 2007 | Tokyo, Japan | 3 | 270 | |
| Prince Prince (Minoru (4) and Prince Devitt) |
1 | January 27, 2008 | Tokyo, Japan | 0 | 21 | |
| Legend (AKIRA and Jushin Thunder Liger (5)) |
1 | January 27, 2008 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 155 | |
| Prince Prince (Minoru (5) and Prince Devitt (2)) |
2 | July 21, 2008 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 84 | |
| No Limit (Tetsuya Naito and Yujiro) |
1 | October 13, 2008 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 83 | |
| The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) |
1 | January 4, 2009 | Tokyo, Japan | 3 | 182 | |
| Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt (3) and Ryusuke Taguchi (2)) |
1 | July 5, 2009 | Tokyo, Japan | 5 | 290 | |
| Vacant | N/A | April 21, 2010 | N/A | Title held up after the championship was not defended for 30 days. | N/A | N/A |
| El Samurai (3) and Koji Kanemoto (4) | 1 | May 8, 2010 | Tokyo, Japan | El Samurai and Kanemoto defeated Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi) in the finals of an eight-team tournament to win the vacant title. | 0 | 72 |
| Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt (4) and Ryusuke Taguchi (3)) |
2 | July 19, 2010 | Sapporo, Japan | 1 | 84 | |
| Golden Lovers (Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi) |
1 | October 11, 2010 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 104 | |
| Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt (5) and Ryusuke Taguchi (4)) |
3 | January 23, 2011 | Tokyo, Japan | 7 | 260 | |
| No Remorse Corps (Davey Richards and Rocky Romero) |
1 | October 10, 2011 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 86 | |
| Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt (6) and Ryusuke Taguchi (5)) |
4 | January 4, 2012 | Tokyo, Japan | 0 | 39 | |
| No Remorse Corps (Davey Richards and Rocky Romero) |
2 | February 12, 2012 | Osaka, Japan | 0 | 80 | |
| Vacant | N/A | May 2, 2012 | N/A | Title held up after Davey Richards was unable to attend Wrestling Dontaku 2012 due to travel issues. | N/A | N/A |
| Jushin Thunder Liger (6) and Tiger Mask | 1 | June 16, 2012 | Osaka, Japan | Liger and Tiger Mask defeated Suzuki-gun (Taichi and Taka Michinoku) to win the vacant title. | 0 | 36 |
| Forever Hooligans (Alex Koslov and Rocky Romero (3)) |
1 | July 22, 2012 | Yamagata, Japan | 2 | 112 | |
| Time Splitters (Alex Shelley (2) and Kushida) |
1 | November 11, 2012 | Osaka, Japan | 3 | 173 | |
| Forever Hooligans (Alex Koslov (2) and Rocky Romero (4)) |
2 | May 3, 2013 | Fukuoka, Japan | 3 | 164 | |
| Suzuki-gun (Taichi and Taka Michinoku (2)) |
1 | October 14, 2013 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 26 | |
| The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) |
1 | November 9, 2013 | Osaka, Japan | 5 | 224 | |
| Time Splitters (Alex Shelley (3) and Kushida (2)) |
2 | June 21, 2014 | Osaka, Japan | 3 | 140 | |
| reDRagon (Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly) |
1 | November 8, 2014 | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 95 | |
| The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) |
2 | February 11, 2015 | Osaka, Japan | 0 | 53 | |
| Roppongi Vice (Beretta and Rocky Romero (5)) |
1 | April 5, 2015 | Tokyo, Japan | 0 | 28 | |
| The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) |
3 | May 3, 2015 | Fukuoka, Japan | 1 | 105 | |
| reDRagon (Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly) |
2 | August 16, 2015 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 141 | |
| The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) |
4 | January 4, 2016 | Tokyo, Japan | 0 | 38 | |
| Matt Sydal and Ricochet | 1 | February 11, 2016 | Osaka, Japan | 0 | 59 | |
| Roppongi Vice (Beretta (2) and Rocky Romero (6)) |
2 | April 10, 2016 | Tokyo, Japan | 0 | 23 | |
| Matt Sydal and Ricochet | 2 | May 3, 2016 | Fukuoka, Japan | 0 | 47 | |
| The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) |
5 | June 19, 2016 | Osaka, Japan | 2 | 199 | |
| Roppongi Vice (Barreta (3) and Rocky Romero (7)) |
3 | January 4, 2017 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 61 | |
| Suzuki-gun (Taichi (2) and Yoshinobu Kanemaru (2)) |
1 | March 6, 2017 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 52 | |
| Roppongi Vice (Barreta (4) and Ricky Romero (8)) |
4 | April 27, 2017 | Hiroshima, Japan | 0 | 45 | |
| The Young Bucks (Nick Jackson and Matt Jackson) |
6 | June 11, 2017 | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 63 | |
| Funky Future Ricochet (3) and Ryusuke Taguchi (6) |
3 | August 13, 2017 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 57 | |
| Roppongi 3K (Sho and Yohei Komatsu) |
1 | October 9, 2017 | Tokyo, Japan | 0 | 87 | |
| The Young Bucks (Nick Jackson and Matt Jackson) |
7 | January 4, 2018 | Tokyo, Japan | 0 | 24 | |
| Roppongi 3K (SHO and YOH) |
2 | January 28, 2018 | Sapporo, Japan | 0 | 37 | |
| Suzuki-gun (El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru (3)) |
1 | March 6, 2018 | Tokyo, Japan | Won in a Three-way Match that also included Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI and Hiromu Takahashi). | 4 | 304 |
| Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI and Shingo Takagi) |
1 | January 4, 2019 | Tokyo, Japan | Won in a Three-way Match that also included Roppongi 3K (SHO and YOH). | 1 | 61 |
| Roppongi 3K (SHO and YOH) |
3 | March 6, 2019 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 102 | |
| BULLET CLUB (El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori) |
1 | June 16, 2019 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 203 | |
| Roppongi 3K (SHO and YOH) |
4 | January 5, 2020 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 239 | |
| Vacant | N/A | August 31, 2020 | N/A | Vacated after YOH suffered a torn ACL. | N/A | N/A |
| Suzuki-gun (El Desperado (2) and Yoshinobu Kanemaru (4)) |
2 | September 11, 2020 | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI and Hiromu Takahashi) in a tournament final to win the vacant title. | 2 | 134 |
| BULLET CLUB (El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori) |
2 | January 23, 2021 | Tokyo, Japan | 0 | 33 | |
| Suzuki-gun (El Desperado (3) and Yoshinobu Kanemaru (5)) |
3 | February 25, 2021 | Tokyo, Japan | 0 | 38 | |
| Roppongi 3K (SHO and YOH) |
5 | April 4, 2021 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 80 | |
| BULLET CLUB's Cutest Tag Team (El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori) |
3 | June 23, 2021 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 74 | |
| Suzuki-gun (El Desperado (4) and Yoshinobu Kanemaru (6)) |
4 | September 5, 2021 | Tokorozawa, Japan | 0 | 51 | |
| Flying Tiger (Robbie Eagles and Tiger Mask (2)) |
1 | October 26, 2021 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 116 | |
| Six Or Nine (Ryusuke Taguchi (7) and Master Wato) |
1 | February 19, 2022 | Sapporo, Japan | Won in a Four-way Match that also included BULLET CLUB's Cutest Tag Team (El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori) and Suzuki-gun (El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru). | 2 | 121 |
| Catch 22 (Francesco Akira and TJP) |
1 | June 20, 2022 | Tokyo, Japan | Won at New Japan Road 2022 - Night 4. | 4 | 311 |
| Jet Setters (Kevin Knight & KUSHIDA) |
1 | April 27, 2023 | Hiroshima, Japan | Won at Road To Wrestling Dontaku - Night 6. | 0 | 38 |
| Catch 22 (Francesco Akira & TJP) |
2 | June 4, 2023 | Osaka, Japan | Won at Dominion 6.4. | 0 | 30 |
| BULLET CLUB War Dogs (Clark Connors & Drilla Moloney) |
1 | July 4, 2023 | Tokyo, Japan | Won at STRONG Independence Day Night 1. | 3 | 184 |
| Catch 22 (Francesco Akira & TJP) |
3 | January 4, 2024 | Tokyo, Japan | Won at Wrestle Kingdom 18. | 1 | 31 |
| BULLET CLUB War Dogs (Clark Connors & Drilla Moloney) |
2 | February 4, 2024 | Tokyo, Japan | Won at NJPW Road To The New Beginning 2024 - Night 6. | 253 | |
| Intergalactic Jet Setters (KUSHIDA & Kevin Knight) |
2 | October 14, 2024 | Tokyo, Japan | Won at King Of Pro-Wrestling. | 59+ |