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Akio Hirai – The Strongest Man in Japan

Posted on Wednesday, November 9th, 2022 by John Wood
It was at Osaka Station in April, 1935, that 34-year old Akio Hirai earned the right to call himself “The Strongest Man in Japan” by pulling a freight car loaded with 160 men a distance of 70 meters with a chain gripped in his teeth!
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