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Graduating Seniors Head to the Corporate Running World

by Brett Larner

As the Japanese academic year comes to a close this month, many of this year's talented group of graduating university seniors prepare to enter the corporate team world of jitsugyodan running while others bid goodbye to their days of serious running. Below is a listing of some of the best runners in this year's graduating class and their destinations next month.

Tsuguya Asahi (Waseda Univ.) - Team Kyudenko
Soji Ikeda (Komazawa Univ.) - Team Yakult
Kenta Kawasaki (Kokushikan Univ.) - Team Suzuki
Yuki Kawauchi (Gakushuin Univ.) - Saitama Prefectural Government
Masato Kihara (Chuo Gakuin Univ.) - Team Kanebo
Mekubo Mogusu (Yamanashi Gakuin Univ.) - Team Aidem
Kazuki Onishi (Toyo Univ.) - Team Kanebo
Tomoya Onishi (Toyo Univ.) - Team Asahi Kasei
Hiroyuki Ono (Juntendo Univ.) - Team Nissin Shokuhin
Yukinori Ota (Komazawa Univ.) - Team Mazda
Takuma Sasaya (Nihon Univ.) - Team JR Higashi Nihon
Yuki Sato (Tokai Univ.) - Team Nissin Shokuhin / Tokai Graduate School
Tsuyoshi Takeda (Juntendo Univ.) - Team Suzuki
Kensuke Takezawa (Waseda Univ.) - Team S&B / Waseda Graduate School
Atsuyoshi Tobisaka (Toyo Univ.) - Team NTN
Shigeki Tsuji (Chuo Gakuin Univ.) - Team Tokyo Denryoku
Hiroyuki Yamamoto (Toyo Univ.) - Team Konica-Minolta
Atsushi Yamazaki (Juntendo Univ.) - Team Subaru

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