is a Japanese

volleyball player This is a list of top international volleyball players. A * Foluke Akinradewo * Carolina Albuquerque * Todor Aleksiev * Ana Ida Alvares * Thiago Soares Alves * Dante Amaral * Andrea Anastasi * Matt Anderson * Stéphane Antiga * Halina Aszki ...

and Olympic champion. She was a major player to help Japanese women's national volleyball team to dominate the World in 1962-67 by winning

1962 FIVB Women's World Championship The 1962 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, FIVB Women's World Championship was the fourth edition of the tournament, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB. It was held from 13 to 25 October 1962 in the Soviet Union. As a tou ...

, 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games and

1967 FIVB Women's World Championship The 1967 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, FIVB Women's World Championship was the fifth edition of the tournament, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB. It was held from 25 to 29 January 1967 at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, ...

in row."1964 Summer Olympics – Tokyo, Japan – Volleyball"
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on September 7, 2008) She also competed at the

1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. ...

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Video of the moments of victory and of awarding gold medal in 1964 Tokyo Olympics
* 1944 births Living people Olympic volleyball players of Japan Volleyball players at the 1964 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Japan Japanese women's volleyball players Olympic medalists in volleyball Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics 20th-century Japanese women {{Japan-volleyball-bio-stub