# Yuji Sakakura

> Japanese association football player and manager

**Wikidata**: [Q2538178](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2538178)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuji_Sakakura)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/yuji-sakakura

## Summary
Yuji Sakakura is a Japanese association football player and manager. He has been active in his professional career since 1990 and is affiliated with Juntendo University.

## Biography
- Born: not specified in the provided source material
- Nationality: Japan
- Education: affiliated with Juntendo University
- Known for: work as a Japanese association football player and as an association football coach/manager
- Employer(s): Juntendo University (affiliation recorded in source material)
- Field(s): association football; association football coaching/management

## Contributions
The provided source material records Yuji Sakakura primarily as a Japanese association football player and manager and notes an affiliation with Juntendo University. No specific papers, products, companies founded, patents, open-source projects, standards, or named publications are listed in the provided material. The explicit, documented contributions in the source are:
- Active professional/work period start: 1990 (work_period_start: +1990-00-00T00:00:00Z).
- Roles: association football player and association football coach/manager as stated in the descriptive metadata.

No further concrete works (titles, years, or impacts) are included in the supplied data.

## FAQs
Q: Who is Yuji Sakakura?
A: He is a Japanese association football player and manager documented in the provided source material.

Q: Where has Yuji Sakakura been affiliated?
A: The source lists an affiliation with Juntendo University, a higher education institution in Japan.

Q: When did Yuji Sakakura begin his recorded professional period?
A: The source records his work period start as 1990.

Q: What roles has Yuji Sakakura held in football?
A: According to the source, he has been both an association football player and an association football coach/manager.

Q: Does Yuji Sakakura have other names or aliases?
A: Yes; aliases recorded in the source include Yūji Sakakura, Yuuji Sakakura, Sakakura Yūji, Sakakura Yuji, and Sakakura Yuuji.

Q: Are there published works or awards listed for Yuji Sakakura in the provided material?
A: No. The supplied material does not list any publications, awards, or specific documented achievements beyond his roles and affiliations.

## Why They Matter
Yuji Sakakura is documented as part of Japan’s football community in dual capacities: as a player and as a coach/manager. That dual role situates him within both the practice of association football (playing) and its training/leadership (coaching/management). His recorded affiliation with an established Japanese institution, Juntendo University, connects him to a national higher-education organization that has its own historical presence (inception date recorded in source material). The provided data does not enumerate specific innovations, landmark matches, published research, or awards attributable to him, so the lasting impacts that can be attributed solely from the supplied material are limited to his professional identity and institutional linkage.

## Notable For
- Identified as a Japanese association football player and manager (wikidata_description).
- Work period start recorded as 1990 (work_period_start: +1990-00-00T00:00:00Z).
- Affiliation with Juntendo University (higher education institution; inception +1838; country: Japan).
- Multiple recorded name variants/aliases: Yūji Sakakura; Yuuji Sakakura; Sakakura Yūji; Sakakura Yuji; Sakakura Yuuji.
- Wikidata / Wikipedia presence: wikipedia_title "Yuji Sakakura" and sitelink_count for the person record is 52.

## Body

### Identity and classification
- Yuji Sakakura is classified in the source material as a human and specifically as a Japanese association football player and manager.
- Related entity types recorded in the source include "association football player" (sitelink_count: 65) and "association football coach" (sitelink_count: 35), indicating the categories under which his professional activities fall in the linked dataset.

### Names and identifiers
- Primary label: Yuji Sakakura.
- Recorded aliases: Yūji Sakakura; Yuuji Sakakura; Sakakura Yūji; Sakakura Yuji; Sakakura Yuuji.
- Wikidata/Wikipedia metadata: wikipedia_title is "Yuji Sakakura" and the person's sitelink_count (number of linked sites in the dataset) is recorded as 52.

### Professional timeline
- The source records a work_period_start of 1990 for Yuji Sakakura (+1990-00-00T00:00:00Z). This indicates that his documented professional activity in football began in 1990 according to the provided metadata.
- Roles identified in the source: association football player and association football coach/manager (the source differentiates the coaching profession and specifies manager/head-coach role usage in related metadata).

### Institutional affiliation
- Juntendo University is listed as an affiliated institution for Yuji Sakakura.
- Juntendo University details present in the source: inception date +1838-00-00T00:00:00Z, country associated is Japan, and the university record has a sitelink_count of 8.

### Geographic and national context
- Nationality is recorded as Japan.
- The dataset also contains related entity metadata for Japan (inception-related dates and sitelink_count 413) reflecting the national context attached to the person’s record.

### Documented limitations and absent data
- The supplied material does not include a birthdate, birthplace, specific teams played for, clubs managed, match statistics, honors, publications, patents, or concrete project names.
- No awards, records, or landmark publications are listed in the provided source content.
- Because the source material is focused on high-level metadata (roles, affiliations, aliases, and identifiers), granular career details and measurable accomplishments are not present in the provided dataset.

### Sources and dataset signals
- The entry is based exclusively on provided structured properties and related-entity metadata: role descriptors (player, coach/manager), institutional affiliation (Juntendo University), aliases, work start date, and sitelink/wikipedia identifiers.
- Related entity sitelink counts present in the source: association football player (65), association football coach (35), human (273), Japan (413), Juntendo University (8), and the person record (52). These numbers reflect linkage density in the originating dataset for those entities.

### Summary of verifiable facts
- Yuji Sakakura: Japanese association football player and manager.
- Work period start: 1990.
- Affiliated with: Juntendo University.
- Aliases: Yūji Sakakura; Yuuji Sakakura; Sakakura Yūji; Sakakura Yuji; Sakakura Yuuji.
- Wikidata/Wikipedia presence: title "Yuji Sakakura"; sitelink_count 52.

Note: This entry adheres strictly to the facts and connections present in the supplied material. Information not present in the source has not been added.

## References

1. Transfermarkt
2. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013