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Iwao Hakamada (Japanese: 袴田 巖, Hepburn: Hakamada Iwao, born 10 March 1936) is a Japanese former professional boxer who was sentenced to death on 11 September 1968 for a 1966 mass murder that became known as the Hakamada Incident. [2] Hakamada's time on death row is the longest of any prisoner in the world. [3]
Masao Ohba (大場政夫, Ōba Masao, October 21, 1949 – January 25, 1973) was a Japanese professional boxer. He became the WBA flyweight World Champion on October 22, 1970, defeating the reigning champion Berkrerk Chartvanchai in Tokyo and retained the championship for an impressive five title defenses.
Boxers who died after being in a coma for more than one year after the fatal fight are counted in the year the fight happened. From 1950 through 2011, Tokyo was the city with the most boxing fatalities in the world. [66] After the JBC's inception in April 1952, thirty-eight Japanese professional boxers died from fight injuries. [67]
Yoshio Shirai was crowned Japan's first world champion in 1952. This is a list of Japanese boxing world champions who have won major world titles from the "Big four" governing bodies in professional boxing namely the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC), International Boxing Federation (IBF) and World Boxing Organization (WBO). [1]
At 1:00 a.m., the perpetrator's car was found parked outside a Catholic church near the gym where the shooting took place. At 6:00 a.m., a gunshot was heard inside, and at 7:30 a.m. his body was found. [4] The perpetrator, Masayoshi Magome (馬込 政義), was a 37-year-old unemployed man who lived with his parents and had a history of mental ...
Kichijiro Hamada (浜田 吉次郎, Hamada Kichijirō, 25 October 1942 – 22 September 2013) was a Japanese boxer. He competed in the men's welterweight event at the 1964 Summer Olympics . [ 2 ]
Professional boxer Ubayd Haider has died after collapsing outside the ring following a featherweight title fight. Haider, a native of Fiji, had been in a coma at the country’s Lautoka Aspen ...
Yoshio Shirai (白井 義男, Shirai Yoshio, November 23, 1923 – December 26, 2003) was a professional boxer from Tokyo, Japan. He won the world flyweight title in 1952, becoming the first Japanese boxer to win a world title.