) was a Japanese sprinter. He competed in the men's 100 metres at the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp ...

. He died at the front in China on 10 July 1939 during the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance (Chinese term) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Th ...

while serving as a lieutenant in the

Imperial Japanese Army The was the official ground-based armed force of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945. It was controlled by the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office and the Ministry of the Army, both of which were nominally subordinate to the Emperor o ...

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* 1913 births 1939 deaths Sportspeople from Saitama Prefecture Military personnel from Saitama Prefecture Japanese male sprinters Olympic male sprinters Olympic athletes of Japan Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics Japan Championships in Athletics winners Japanese military personnel killed in action Military personnel killed in the Second Sino-Japanese War Imperial Japanese Army officers 20th-century Japanese people {{Japan-athletics-bio-stub