Charitable Fund
A charitable fund has been set up in his name for the children of Iraq and a collection at the 2004 Oxford-Cambridge Varsity Match went towards that fund. Proceeds from the recent game in Japan between Waseda and Oxford (which Waseda won for the first time ever) also went to the fund, and the game was called the Katsuhiko Oku Memorial match. It was played on September 20, 2004 and Waseda won 25-9. The average weight of the forwards was Oxford 107kg, Waseda 99kg. The record now stands at one win, one draw and ten losses.
Mr. Katsuyuki Kiyomiya, the coach of Waseda's highly successful rugby team 2001-6, was a friend of Mr. Oku, and is a trustee of his memorial fund in Japan. Together they invented a slogan "ULTIMATE CRUSH".
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