was a Japanese

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player. He played for Japan national team.

National team career

Naoki was born on March 23, 1918. On June 16, 1940, when he was a Tokyo Imperial University student, he debuted for Japan national team against Philippines and Japan won the match.Japan National Football Team Database
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and the only match in the 1940s in Japan's International A Match due to World War II. Naoki died in an accident immediately after World War II.University of Tokyo SC magazine (東大サッカー部誌第五号) (p.166)

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