is a male Japanese

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. His father, Yasuhiro Shichinohe, is a former Kyokushin

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national champion and his mother is Belgian. In childhood, he practiced both judo and karate, but at the age of 13, he chose to focus only on judo. In 2011, after graduating from Fukuoka University, he was employed by Kyushu Electric Power. Shichinohe won the silver medal in the heavyweight (+100 kg) division at the

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and

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* * * 1988 births Living people Japanese male judoka Japanese people of Belgian descent 20th-century Japanese people 21st-century Japanese people {{Japan-judo-bio-stub