Yoshiteru Suzuki had a reputation of winning a rowing regatta in the United Kingdom and rowed as bow of the Japanese eights at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. In the same year, he graduated from the Department of Engineering and Metallurgy of the Tokyo Imperial University. After the war he coached the rowers of the Tokyo Institute of Technology and published a book about Rowing in 1950. Suzuki became a successful businessman in the ore mining industry, for instance, serving as chairman of the Tohoku Mining Association (a mining region in the northern part of Honshu). As coach at the local university, their eights competed in the 1960 Roma Olympics.
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