Hyozo Omori

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Hyozo Omori (Japanese: 大森兵蔵; March 14, 1876 - January 13, 1913) was a Japanese educator, who helped to develop YMCAs in Japan.

Omori graduated from the YMCA International Training School and introduced basketball and volleyball into the Tokyo YMCA in 1908. He Joined the first Japanese Olympic team in 1912.

He died of tuberculosis in Pasadena, California in 1913.