Hiroaki_Shukuzawa
Hiroaki Shukuzawa
Japanese rugby union footballer and coach
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.
This article needs additional citations for verification. (January 2017) |
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.