(born 22 December 1958 in Kitakami) is a former Japanese rugby union player who played mainly as Number 8.

Biography

After graduating from Kurosawajiri High School of Iwate, Chida started to play for Nippon Steel Kamaishi. He played as lock while representing Kamaishi and Japan. During the 1983 Japan tour of Wales, Chida played as flanker in order to enlarge the third row. Later, he played as flanker and as number 8 for Japan and mainly played as number 8 for Kamaishi. In 1985, during the Japanese championship against Doshisha, Chida received the ball, leaving Doshisha's defense and went down the goal post. While combining power and speed, he is not a rushing type, but a clever forward that accurately judges pass and dense formation according to circumstances, He was active as a mainstay of Nippon Steel Kamaishi's seventh consecutive victory of the Rugby Japanese Championship and also served as a forward for the contemporaneous rugby Japanese national team.

International career

His debut for

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was against New Zealand Universities, at Tokyo, on 30 March 1980. During the match against Wales in 1983, Chida rushed 20 metres from a scrum to score a try late in the second half in the Wales match.Kamaishi Rugby
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roster, where he played two matches, with the pool match against

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being his last for Japan.

Personal life

Currently, he works as sales manager for Nippon Steel Engineering Morioka as well as advisor for club team Blaze Lager from Kitakami. He is also teaching at the Kitakami Municipal South Junior High School and Kitakami Rugby School. According to

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(22 January 2010), former prop Jiro Ishiyama, who was a teammate in Kamaishi and in the Japan national team stated "Although Hayashi (Toshiyuki) and Oyagi (Atsushi) are never weak, nevertheless, it was Chida who gave the most power required to the scrum."

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chida, Michihito 1958 births Living people Sportspeople from Iwate Prefecture Japanese rugby union players Rugby union locks Rugby union number eights Rugby union flankers Japan international rugby union players Kamaishi Seawaves players 1987 Rugby World Cup players