Japanese kickboxing

Japanese Kickboxing is a style of Kickboxing created by the Japanese boxing promoter Osamu Noguchi in the 1950s for a variant of Muay Thai and Karate. It was also Osamu Noguchi who created the term "kickboxing" and used it for the first time in the 1960's.

but there are differences between them.

*Similarities
**time: three minutes × five rounds
**allowed to attack with elbow
**allowed to attack with knee
**allowed to kick the lower half of the body except crotch
**allowed to do neck-wrestling (folding opponent's head with arms and elbows to attack the opponent's body or head with knee-strikes)
**head butts and throws were banned in 1966 for boxers' safety.

*Differences
**No ram muay before match
**No Thai music during the match
**Interval takes one minute only as same as boxing
**Point system:
**:In muay thai, kicking to mid-body and head are scored highly generating a large number of points on judges' scorecards. Moreover, kicking is still judged highly even if the kick was blocked. In contrast, punching is worth fewer points. In kickboxing punches and kicks are held in closer esteem.