Kairi Sane

Kaori Housako (宝迫 香織) is a Japanese professional wrestler and actress.

she is signed to WWE, where she performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Kairi Sane (カイリ・セイン), where she is a member of Damage CTRL.

She has been one-half of the WWE Women's Tag Team Champions, the Kabuki Warriors since January 26, 2024 in her second reign.

Kaori Housako was born on September 23, 1988, in Hikari, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.

She has a sister, who is three years older than her.

She has an extensive sports background in yachting, competing in intercollegiate and national competitions, while also taking part in world championships with dreams of making it to the Olympics.

After graduating from Hosei University with a bachelor's degree in Japanese literature, Housako began pursuing a career in acting.

She also did some theater work and one of her performances, where she performed as a professional wrestling villain, was seen by Fuka, the general manager of the World Wonder Ring Stardom promotion, who invited Housako to one of their events.

She quickly fell in love with professional wrestling's aspect of combining acting with sports and decided to become a wrestler herself.

Housako started training with Stardom in 2011.

On November 14, 2011, she passed her "pro test" and graduated as part of Stardom's third class of trainees, alongside Act Yasukawa, Natsumi Showzuki and Yuuri Haruka.

From 2012 to 2017, she wrestled for the Japanese promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom under the ring name Kairi Hojo (宝城 カイリ).

Embodying a "Pirate Princess" persona, she became a one-time World of Stardom Champion, a one-time Wonder of Stardom Champion, a three-time Goddess of Stardom Champion and a five-time Artist of Stardom Champion.

Housako, now working under the ring name "Kairi Hojo", made her debut for Stardom on January 7, 2012, losing to Yuzuki Aikawa.

Playing off her yachting background, Hojo was dubbed "Pirate Princess".

She quickly became a founding member of the Zenryoku Joshi stable, led by Aikawa.

In November 2012, Hojo formed a new tag team with Natsumi Showzuki, with the two finishing second in the 2012 Goddesses of Stardom Tag League.

Zenryoku Joshi disbanded in January 2013, when Hojo unsuccessfully challenged her stablemate Yuzuki Aikawa for the Wonder of Stardom Championship.

Hojo won her first title on April 29, 2013, at Ryōgoku Cinderella, where she and Showzuki, billed collectively as "Ho-Show Tennyo", defeated Hailey Hatred and Kyoko Kimura for the Goddess of Stardom Championship.

Their reign, however, lasted only a month, as they were stripped of the title when Showzuki was sidelined with a cervical spine injury.

Showzuki never returned from her injury, instead resigning from Stardom.

On June 23, 2013, Hojo teamed with Kaori Yoneyama and Yuhi to defeat Christina Von Eerie, Hailey Hatred and Kyoko Kimura for the vacant Artist of Stardom Championship.

They lost the title to Kimura, Alpha Female and The Female Predator "Amazon" on November 4.

In May 2014, Hojo made her Mexican debut by representing Stardom in the DragonMania 9 and Lucha Fan Fest 8 events.

In August, Stardom's roster was split in half as part of a storyline rivalry between older wrestlers born in the Shōwa period and younger wrestlers born in the Heisei period.

Hojo, having been born in the Shōwa period, aligned herself with the likes of Nanae Takahashi and Miho Wakizawa.

On August 10, Hojo regained the Goddess of Stardom Championship, when she and Takahashi defeated Alpha Female and Kyoko Kimura.

After an eight-month reign, she was again stripped of the title, when Takahashi was sidelined with an ankle injury.

She also won the 2015 5★Star GP and the 2016 Goddesses of Stardom Tag League.

In February 2015, following an incident between Act Yasukawa and Yoshiko, Hojo was named an intermediary between the wrestlers and management in order to bring the two sides closer.

Following the incident, Stardom's top title, the World of Stardom Championship, was declared vacant with a tournament scheduled to determine the new champion.

In 2017, she signed with WWE, where she adopted the ring name Kairi Sane.

She won the inaugural Mae Young Classic tournament the same year, and was then assigned to the NXT brand.

She captured the NXT Women's Championship in 2018 and subsequently won the 2018 NXT Year-End Awards for Female Competitor of the Year and for Overall Competitor of the Year.

In 2019, she debuted on WWE's main roster, where she became a one-time and the longest reigning WWE Women's Tag Team Champion, along with Asuka as part of The Kabuki Warriors.

The team also received 2019 WWE Year-End Award for Women's Tag Team of the Year.

In 2020, she returned to Japan to join her husband, and worked as a WWE ambassador and trainer in her native country until December 2021 when her contract expired.

After her stint with WWE, she returned to World Wonder Ring Stardom in February 2022 and performed under ring name Kairi (stylized in all caps).

She also performed for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) where she was a one-time and inaugural IWGP Women's Champion.

She became a free agent in March 2023 and returned to WWE in November 2023 at Crown Jewel.