YAMATO
	Real Name: Masato Onodera
	Nickname: BATTLESHIP
	Date of Birth: 9/10/1981
	Birthplace: Ichinoseki-shi, Iwate Prefecture
	Height/Weight: 172cm/82kg
	Theme: YAMATO SPIRIT
	Debut: 7/29/2006 vs. Yasushi Kanda
	Title History: Open the Triangle Gate

Specialties:
•Gallaria - ギャラリア
Reverse brainbuster lift into sit out driver.
•CBV
Crossface style facelock. Name means "Cross Bone Vanguard"
•Death Valley Bomb
•German Suplex

Before Dragon Gate: Prior to entering the Dragon Gate system, he competed in mixed martial arts, including PANCRASE tournaments.
2006: Debuts as the 5th graduate of the DG system, using Yamato Onodera as his ringname. His teacher, Yasushi Kanda, passes his Gekokujoh character onto him. He is also given membership in Final M2K after his debut. He joined them for the 2006 Open the Triangle Gate tournament. When the Dragon Gate NEX project started at the end of the year, he became one of the aces. When Final M2K ended he chose to focus on NEX rather than jump to a different unit.
2007: Wins the first NEX-1 tournament, allowing him to come to the United States for a learning excursion. While in the US he drops the Gekokujoh lineage and changed his ring name to just YAMATO. Upon his return to Japan, he joined the newly formed NEW HAZARD unit. He struggled with shoulder injuries most of the year. In December, he challenged Ryo Saito to a singles match, directly challenging one of the DG pillars for the first time.

2008 has been an eventful year thus far for YAMATO. After the match with Ryo, CIMA had some negative comments that has lead to a bitter feud between the 2. He also felt slighted by being left off the NH Open the Triangle Gate challenging team, causing him to quarrel with the rest of the unit, BxB Hulk in particular. A handshake with Gamma in February came back around in April, when after a very short lived reconciliation with NH, YAMATO joined Muscle, then continued on to Real Hazard.