At the 68th Fukushima Prefecture Junior High School Track and Field Championships, Haru Tsuburaya won the boys’ 800 m to qualify for his first National Junior High School Championships. Kokichi Tsuburaya, 1964 Tokyo Olympics marathon bronze medalist and a native of Sukagawa, was the younger brother of Haru’s great-grandfather. Haru admits that he “doesn’t really know much” about his famed
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