was a Japanese

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

player. She was a member of the Japanese winning teams, , at the 1962 World Championships and

1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 ( ja, 東京1964), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this ho ...

. She died at 72 in 2016. It is reported by

THE SANKEI NEWS The (short for ) is a daily newspaper in Japan published by the It has the seventh-highest circulation for regional newspapers in Japan. Among Japanese newspapers, the circulation is second only to ''Yomiuri Shimbun'', Seikyo Shimbun, ''Asah ...

that she lost her parents because of

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

but never lost her patience, warm personality and strength."Sata Maruyama who suddenly died could not go cheer on her son, Japanese national team swimmer." THE SANKEI NEWS 2016.12.20 11:54

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Video of 1964 Tokyo Olympics Women's Volleyball（the person who appears as the 1st Japanese server and 2nd Japanese spiker in this video）

Sata Maruyama (née Isobe) passed away at 72. (The second player from the right in the photograph) / THE MAINICHI NEWSPAPERS
* 1944 births 2016 deaths Olympic volleyball players for Japan Volleyball players at the 1964 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Japan Japanese women's volleyball players Olympic medalists in volleyball Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Chiba Prefecture {{Japan-volleyball-bio-stub