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Hiroko Tsukumo

Japanese volleyball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ5770437 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hiroko Tsukumo (born 11 September 1970) is a retired volleyball player from Japan, who competed for the Japan women's national team in the 1990s. She was named Best Digger and Best Receiver at the 1998 FIVB World Championship. Tsukumo played as a libero.

Editorial summary

“Hiroko Tsukumo” enters the record as japanese volleyball player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hiroko, Tsukumo and Japanese can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 1998—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-09-11. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hiroko, Tsukumo and Japanese.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Hiroko Tsukumo” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hiroko, Tsukumo and Japanese provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5770437. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970 and 1998.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hiroko Tsukumo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.