was a Japanese marathon runner. He won the Boston Marathon in 1955 in a time of 2:18.22 which was a course record. He was 16th in the 1956 Olympic Games marathon in Melbourne. After retiring from competitive racing, he became an athletics coach. He died on 7 May 2000 from a malignant tumour.

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* 1928 births 2000 deaths Boston Marathon male winners Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Japan Athletes (track and field) at the 1958 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for Japan 20th-century Japanese people {{Japan-athletics-bio-stub