Shinobu Aoki
Date of birth | January 26, 1968 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Saitama Prefecture, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Daito First High School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University | Daito Bunka University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Shinobu Aoki (
Career[edit]
While at Daito First High School, Aoki won the 1985 National High School Rugby Football Tournament. The following year, he entered Daito Bunka University and had a regular position from his first year. At the 23rd edition of the National High School Rugby Football Championship of the same year, along with the Tongan players Sinali Latu and Uatesoni Namoa, who were also students for Daito Bunka, Aoki contributed to the first victory of Daito Bunka defeating Waseda University.
At the 25th edition of the University championship in 1988, Daito Bunka was in the final for the second time, despite the 12-12 draw with Meiji University, as well, in this match, the teams with more tries were able to advance to the Japan Rugby Football Championship, so Daito Bunka was playing against Kobe Steel, who had the first victory in the Japan National Company Rugby Football Competition.
On 28 May 1989, at the Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium, Aoki earned his first cap for Japan in a match against Scotland. Along with Masami Horikoshi, who was also a student at the time, he formed a University student half-team (