Hiroaki Shukuzawa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hiroaki Shukuzawa

Japanese rugby union footballer and coach

Date of Birth: 01-Sep-1950

Place of Birth: Saitama Prefecture, Kantō region, Japan

Date of Death: 17-Jun-2006

Profession: rugby union player

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Hiroaki Shukuzawa (????, Shukuzawa Hiroaki, born September 1, 1950 – June 17, 2006) was a successful rugby coach of the Japan national rugby union team (1997–2000).
As a player, he was capped three times by Japan as a scrum-half, and he also advised the Japan Rugby Football Union.
He held important posts as a banker also. Shukuzawa died of a heart attack on the way back from a mountain climbing expedition in Gunma prefecture.
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.