is a Japanese track and field athlete. He competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in the pole vault and decathlon and finished in sixth and 22nd place, respectively. He was the flag bearer for Japan at those Olympics. He also competed for Japan at the Far Eastern Championship Games (a forerunner to the Asian Games) and was the winner of the pole vault competition in 1923 in Osaka and again in 1927. References 1903 births 1984 deaths Japanese decathletes Japanese male pole vaulters Japanese male high jumpers Olympic male pole vaulters Olympic decathletes Olympic athletes of Japan Athletes (track and field) at the 1928 Summer Olympics Japan Championships in Athletics winners 20th-century Japanese people