The 1995 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the third season of Japan Automobile Federation GT premiere racing, and the second under the promotion of the GT Association (GTA). It was marked as well as the thirteenth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. Once again, the GT1 class champion was the #1 Calsonic Nissan Skyline GT-R driven by Masahiko Kageyama, and the GT2 class champion was the #70 Gaikokuya Nissan Skyline driven by Yoshimi Ishibashi and Kaoru Hoshino.
1995 saw the Toyota Supra win its first race in the GT1 category, at Sendai Hi-Land Raceway. The victory came just a week after Masanori Sekiya, driver of the winning Castrol TOM's Toyota Supra, became the first Japanese driver to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans overall. The series made its first official visit to Suzuka Circuit on April 2, 1995.
| Round | Race | Circuit | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suzuka GT 300 |  Suzuka Circuit | April 2 |
| 2 | All Japan Fuji GT Race | Fuji Speedway | May 4 |
| 3 | HiLand GT&F3 Race | Sendai Hi-Land Raceway | June 25 |
| 4 | Japan Special GT-Cup | Fuji Speedway | August 13 |
| 5 | SUGO GT Championship | Sportsland SUGO | September 10 |
| 6 | Sanyo Shinpan Cup Grand Touring Car Endurance Race | Mine Circuit | October 1 |
| Round | Circuit | GT1 Winning Team | GT2 Winning Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| GT1 Winning Drivers | GT2 Winning Drivers | ||
| 1 | Suzuka Circuit | #1 Calsonic Hoshino Racing GT-R | #70 Team Gaikokuya Nissan Skyline |
| Masahiko Kageyama | Yoshimi Ishibashi Kaoru Hoshino | ||
| 2 | Mt. Fuji | #33 Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT2 | #70 Team Gaikokuya Nissan Skyline |
| Hideshi Matsuda Kaoru Iida | Yoshimi Ishibashi Kaoru Hoshino | ||
| 3 | Sendai | #36 Castrol TOM'S Toyota Supra | #7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7 |
Masanori Sekiya  Michael Krumm | Hironori Takeuchi Haruhiko Matsumoto | ||
| 4 | Mt. Fuji | #3 Hasemi Motorsports GT-R | #72 Makiguchi Engineering BMW M3 |
| Masahiro Hasemi | Norio Makiguchi Takayuki Kinoshita | ||
| 5 | Sportsland SUGO | #35 Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT2 | #31 Cobra Racing Team Porsche 993 |
 Anthony Reid Masahiko Kondō | Seiichi Sodeyama Katsunori Iketani | ||
| 6 | Mine Circuit | #34 Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT2 | #7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7 |
| Hideshi Matsuda Keiichi Suzuki | Hironori Takeuchi Haruhiko Matsumoto | ||
| Rank | Drivers | Number/Team | Points | Wins |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Masahiko Kageyama | #1 Calsonic Hoshino Racing Skyline GT-R | 67 | 1 |
| 2 | Masahiro Hasemi | #3 Hasemi Motorsports Skyline GT-R | 61 | 1 |
| 3 | Toshio Suzuki | #55 NISMO Skyline GT-R | 58 | 0 |
| 4 | Hideshi Matsuda | #33 Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT2 #34 Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT2 #35 Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT2 | 44 | 1 |
| 5 | Michael Krumm | #36 Castrol TOM'S Toyota Supra | 46 | 1 |
| Rank | Drivers | Number/Team | Points | Wins |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yoshimi Ishibashi Kaoru Hoshino | #70 Team Gaikokuya Nissan Skyline | 79 | 2 |
| 2 | Hironori Takeuchi Haruhiko Matsumoto | #7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7 | 57 | 2 |
| 3 | Tsuyoshi Yamagishi | #71 Makiguchi Engineering BMW M3 | 53 | 0 |
| 4 | Norio Makiguchi | #72 Makiguchi Engineering BMW M3 | 50 | 1 |
| 5 | Katsunori Iketani | #31 Cobra Racing Team Porsche 993 | 50 | 1 |
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