People from Chiba (City): Fumie Suguri, Tetsuya Harada, Masaki Aiba, Ricky Fuji, Natsuki Mizu, Yasushi Kanda, Akinori Otsuka, Kotofuji Takaya

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 117. Not illustrated. Chapters: Fumie Suguri, Tetsuya Harada, Masaki Aiba, Ricky Fuji, Natsuki Mizu, Yasushi Kanda, Akinori Otsuka, Kotofuji Takaya, Wakashoyo, Pata, Kazuhisa Ishii, Naotake Hanyu, Michihiro Ogasawara, Satoru Yamagishi, Shinji Murai, Akira Narahashi, Yasunori Matsumoto, Kumiko Aso, Tadahiro Akiba, Masaki Chugo, K ichi Tokita, Yoshio Kojima, Koki Yonekura, Ryohei Yamazaki, Yoshinobu Takahashi, Reiichi Ikegami, Takashi Aoyagi, Shugo Oshinari, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Kiyohiko Toyama, Kenichi Yamakawa, Keiichi Tsuruoka. Excerpt: Fumie Suguri Suguri Fumie, born December 31, 1980 in Chiba, Japan) is a Japanese figure skater. She is a five-time Japanese National Champion, a three-time World Championship medalist, a three-time Four Continents Champion and the 2003-2004 Grand Prix Final Champion. As of April 2010, she was ranked 25th in the world by the International Skating Union (ISU). Suguri was born in Chiba, Chiba, Japan. Her younger sister, Chika Suguri, is also a figure skater. Her father was a pilot for JAL and Suguri lived in Anchorage, Alaska as a child. She is bilingual in Japanese and English. She graduated from Waseda University. She began skating at age 5 in Alaska. When she returned to Japan, she began formal training. In 1994, while visiting the practice rink for the 1994 World Figure Skating Championships, Suguri was taught the triple Lutz jump by Michelle Kwan, who was competing in the World Championship. Suguri won her first Japanese national title in 1997, and won it four more times in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2006. In 2001, Suguri won the 2001 Four Continents Championships. She is the first Japanese woman to win that competition. She would go on to win Four Continents three more times, and she holds the most Four Continents titles of any Japanese skater and any female skater. In 2002, she competed at the 2002...