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Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

ese wrestler. He competed in the Greco-Roman bantamweight event at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and finished in seventh and first place, respectively. Earlier in 1962 he won the world championships and Asian Games in the same event.

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* 1940 births Living people Olympic wrestlers for Japan Wrestlers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1964 Summer Olympics Japanese male sport wrestlers Olympic gold medalists for Japan Olympic medalists in wrestling Asian Games medalists in wrestling Wrestlers at the 1962 Asian Games World Wrestling Championships medalists Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Kansai University alumni Medalists at the 1962 Asian Games 20th-century Japanese people {{Japan-wrestling-bio-stub