[1] Morioka won the inter-high school boxing tournament in his senior year, and entered Kinki University.
He made his professional debut after graduating, but retired after it was discovered that he had suffered a detached retina.
After retiring, he served as the commissioner of the Western Japan Boxing Commission from 1998 to 2000.
His nephew, Toshiyuki Morioka, has created a movie based on his life, which was released in Japan in January 2008.
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