Career

Watanabe was born in Hokkaido, and joined the team Toshiba Brave Lupus in Tokyo in 1997 after graduating from Nippon Sport Science University. He played 32 times for the national team and in Brave Lupus"s hat-trick of Japanese domestic league titles between 2004 and 2006. On 3 April 2010, Yasunori died at the age of 35, when he fell off a train station platform and was hit by a train at Kamakura Station in Kanagawa Prefecture.

An employee at the station saw Watanabe fall at about 9:30 p.m.