Career
Hashimoto first appeared in the Personal Digital Cellular circuit competing in the 2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic qualifiers, as well as a Players Championship. He attempted to qualify for the 2010 Personal Digital Cellular World Darts Championship, but lost in the final of the Japanese Qualifying event to Haruki Muramatsu. A month later, he was a quarter finalist in the Japan Open and in November, he reached the final of the WDF Asia-Pacific Cup men"s singles, losing to New Zealand"s Koha Kokiri.
Hashimoto was drawn in the Preliminary Round against PDPA qualifier Matt Padgett and quickly became popular with the crowd.
After winning his first leg, levelling the match at 1–1, the crowd started chanting his name to the tune of "Reach Up (Papa"s Got a Brand New Pigbag)", which is used as a walk on by Adrian Lewis. The song, performed by the Perfecto Allstarz, was played at the end of the match instead of the traditional "Chase the Sun" by Planet Funk, and Hashimoto would have it played as his walk on for his first round match against Gary Anderson.
After the match, Hashimoto, speaking English, thanked the crowd for their support. Hashimoto represented Japan with Haruki Muramatsu in the 2012 Personal Digital Cellular World Cup of Darts and together they were beaten 5–2 by Sweden in the first round.
Hashimoto beat Muramatsu 6–5 in the final of the Japanese qualifying tournament for the 2014 World Championship.
In the second round they both lost their singles matches against the Northern Irish partnering of Brendan Dolan and Michael Mansell to exit the tournament. A year later, after whitewashing China 5–0, they were knocked out at the same stage this time by the top seeds England. Hashimoto lost 6–2 in the first round of the inaugural Japan Darts Masters to James Wade.
Personal Digital Cellular
2011: First round (lost to Gary Anderson 0–3)
2014: First round (lost to Michael Smith 1–3).
