is a Japanese

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ka. He won a

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4 times at the

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. He is from

Higashikagawa, Kagawa is a cities of Japan, city located in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 28,627 in 13689 households and a population density of and a population density of 970 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . G ...

. After graduation from

Tenri University is a Japanese private university in Tenri, Nara Prefecture, an independent part of the secular mission of the new religious movement Tenrikyo. It was established in February 1925 as the coeducational , enrolling 104 students, and was reorganis ...

in 1973, he belonged to

Kuraray is a Japanese manufacturer of chemicals, fibers and other materials. Their main manufacturing facilities are located in Kurashiki, Okayama. The company's Tokyo administrative offices are located in Otemachi, Chiyoda in the Ote Center Building ...

. One year after, He got a job at

Kyoto Sangyo University is a private university in Kyoto, Japan. It is one university that belongs to "San-Kin-Ko-Ryu" (産近甲龍), a group of semi-major private universities in the Kansai area. History The university was established in 1965 by Toshima Araki (, ...

and among his students was Olympic Games champion in 1984,

Yoshiyuki Matsuoka is a retired judoka from Japan, who represented Japan at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Matsuoka won the gold medal in the men's half-lightweight division (65 kg), after having defeated South Korea's Hwang Jung-Oh i ...

. As of 2010, Fujii coaches judo at his alma mater, Tenri University, where he previously studied as an undergraduate.

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* * Japanese male judoka People from Higashikagawa, Kagawa Judoka from Kagawa Prefecture 1950 births Living people World judo champions 20th-century Japanese sportsmen {{Japan-judo-bio-stub