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| Date of birth | September 1, 1950 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Hino, Tokyo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | June 17, 2006 (aged 55) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hiroaki Shukuzawa (宿澤広朗, Shukuzawa Hiroaki, September 1, 1950 – June 17, 2006) was a Japanese rugby union player and coach, who coached the Japan national rugby union team between 1989 and 1991. As a player, he was capped three times by Japan as a scrum-half, and he also advised the Japan Rugby Football Union. He also held important posts as a banker.
Shukuzawa died of a heart attack on the way back from a mountain climbing expedition in Gunma prefecture.[1] More than four thousand people, including Seiji Hirao and Katsuyuki Kiyomiya attended the overnight wake on June 22, 2006, at Honganji temple in Tsukiji, Tokyo.
- ^ "Ex-Japan coach Shukuzawa dies". www.japantimes.co.jp. 19 June 2006. Retrieved 8 June 2020.