He went to work for the Japanese Government Railways in 1920, but volunteers for the Japanese marines at the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Sasebo Naval District in 1924.
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Tsuruta was the second Japanese to be awarded with a gold medal (after Mikio Oda in the Triple jump on August 2).
Norio Tsuruta | Yoshiyuki Tomino | Jumbo Tsuruta | Yoshiyuki Sadamoto | Kazuko Yoshiyuki |