Yasunori Watanabe

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Yasunori Watanabe
Rugby union career
Date of birth	(1974-07-02)July 2, 1974
Date of death	April 3, 2010(2010-04-03) (aged 35)
Height	1.92 m (6 ft 3 ¹⁄₂ in)
Weight	104 kg (229 lb; 16.4 st)
Playing career
Position	Lock, Flanker
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1996–2007	Japan	34	(40)

Yasunori Watanabe (渡辺泰憲, Watanabe Yasunori) (1974^{[citation needed]} – 3 April 2010) was a Japanese rugby player, who played for Japan in three Rugby World Cups from 1999 to 2007.

Career

Watanabe was born in Hokkaido, and joined the team Toshiba Brave Lupus in Tokyo in 1997 after graduating from Nippon Sport Science University. He played 32 times for the national team and in Brave Lupus's hat-trick of Japanese domestic league titles between 2004 and 2006.

Death

On 3 April 2010, Yasunori died at the age of 35, when he fell off a train station platform and was hit by a train at Kamakura Station in Kanagawa Prefecture. An employee at the station saw Watanabe fall at about 9:30 p.m.^[1]

References

The Guardian: "Japan rugby player Yasunori Watanabe killed after being hit by train" (5 April 2010) Retrieved 16 April 2010. (English)

↑ "ラグビー元日本代表が転落死　鎌倉駅で渡辺泰憲さん" (5 April 2010) Retrieved 16 April 2010 (Japanese)

v t e Japan squad – 2007 Rugby World Cup

Forwards	Yamamura Yamamoto Soma Nishiura Matsubara Aoki H. Ono Kumagae Vatuvei Thompson Watanabe Kiso Makiri O'Reilly Sasaki Miuchi

Backs	Yatomi Yoshida Kim Ando K. Ono Onishi Oto Imamura Taira Robins Onozawa Endo Kitagawa Loamanu Aruga

Coach	Kirwan

v t e Japan squad – 2003 Rugby World Cup

Forwards	Ito Miuchi Okubo Parker Kiso Toyoyama Amino Hasegawa Sakata Yamamoto Saito Watanabe Yamamura Asano Kubo Hayano

Backs	Matsuda Ohata Parkinson Motoki Onozawa Hirose Tsuji Sonoda Miller Kurihara Nanba Konia Yoshida Hojo

Coach	Mukai

Persondata
Name	Watanabe, Yasunori
Alternative names
Short description	Japanese rugby union player
Date of birth	1974
Place of birth
Date of death	3 April 2010
Place of death

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