is a retired Japanese

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ka who won two Olympic medals during the 1980s.

Biography

Hosokawa began judo in junior-high school, and won the Japanese inter-high school judo competition in 1977. He entered

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in 1978, and continued his success by winning the college-level world judo championship in 1979 and 1980. After graduating from Tenri University, he began work as a teacher for a school in

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in 1982. He was chosen as the -60 kg representative for the Japanese olympic judo team for the

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, where he won a gold medal by defeating future gold medalist Kim Jae-Yup only 69 seconds into the match. He also won a gold medal at the

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, but retired to concentrate on his work as a teacher. He restarted his judo career in 1987 with a silver medal at the

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, and retired after finishing with a bronze medal at the

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.Olympic Sports
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since April, 1997, where he coached many lightweight judoka, most notably 3-time gold medalist

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, whose father was Hosokawa's coach during high school. He also coaches judo at

, and for th
All Japan Judo Federation

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Biography

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