is a Japanese

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. She competed in the women's high jump at the

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. Following her athletics career, she became a professor of

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Hiroshima City University is a public university at Hiroshima, Hiroshima, 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 Jap ...

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1952 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Japanese female high jumpers Olympic female high jumpers Olympic athletes for Japan Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics Asian Games silver medalists for Japan Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 1974 Asian Games Medalists at the 1974 Asian Games Japan Championships in Athletics winners Japanese schoolteachers 20th-century Japanese women {{Japan-athletics-bio-stub

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