From a press release issued by FGSport Group:

The Suzuka 8 Hours race is the most important race of the year for the Japanese factories.

Honda will be represented by an HRC CBR1000RRW Fireblade ridden by Ryuichi Kiyonari and Yuki Takahashi, as well as the Seven Stars Fireblade of Toru Ukawa and Hitoyasu Izutsu and the two Sakurai Fireblades of Osamu Deguchi / Kenichi Kiyonari and Tadayuki Okada / Chojun Kameya.

Leading Suzukis will include the Kenz Motul GSX-R1000 of Keiichi Kitagawa and Katsuaki Fujiwara, and the Yoshimura Suzuki ridden by Atsushi Watanabe and Yukio Kagayama.

The Yamaha factory will be represented by the YSP Presto YZF-R1 of Shinichi Nakatomi and Wataru Yoshikawa, the Team Challenger bike ridden by Yoshihiko Fujiwara and Nobuyuki Ozaki, and the Club Yamaha pairing of Keiji Okumura and Daniel Stauffer.

Kawasaki’s leading entry is the Beet Motul ZX10R of Kazuki Shimizu and Daisaku Sakai.

Suzuka wouldn’t be Suzuka without the Formula Extreme entries that add colour and excitement to the entry list. The Boxer Sports Club BMW R1100S and the Ducati Monster of La Bellezza Speed return, along with Asahina’s Samurai, the Over OV23-XV, Surf Suzuki’s SV1000S and a pair of Honda CB1300SFs.

Stats:

A total of 79 teams are entered.

10 will run in the Superbike class, 1 in SuperProduction, 1 in Stocksport, 51 in the Japanese Superbike class, 9 in Formula Xtreme Division 1 and 7 in Formula Xtreme Division 2.

46 teams will use Dunlop tyres, 14 will use Bridgestone, 12 will use Michelin and 3 will use Pirelli tyres. The rest are unconfirmed at the time of writing.

There are 35 Hondas entered, 21 Suzukis, 14 Yamahas, 5 Kawasakis, 1 BMW, 1 Asahina, 1 Over and 1 Ducati.