was a

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

player from Japan. In 1954 and 1955 he won two gold medals in team events in the

World Table Tennis Championships The World Table Tennis Championships are table tennis competitions sanctioned by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The World Championships have been held since 1926, biennially since 1957. Five individual events, which include m ...

. He died from a heart attack in January 1956.

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Japanese male table tennis players 1935 births 1956 deaths Place of birth missing {{Japan-tabletennis-bio-stub