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Kōkichi Tsuburaya

Japanese long-distance runner (track and field)(1940–1968).

Born May 13th, 1940 in Sukagawa.

Died January 9th, 1968 at 27 years old in Asaka (exsanguination).

Occupations
athletics competitor

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel