High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sabur Kawabuchi (born 3 December 1936 in Takaishi, Osaka, Japan) is a former Japanese football player and manager. He was the president of the Japan Football Association between 2002 and 2008. Kawabuchi played for Furukawa Electric, forerunner to JEF United Ichihara Chiba, in the early days of the Japan Soccer League. In the initial league season, he was the first player to score a hat-trick, against Nagoya Bank. The Japanese language is a Japonic language that is sometimes treated as a language isolate; it is also related to the Okinawan language (Ryukyuan), and both are suggested to be part of the proposed Altaic language family. The Japanese language has a tripartite writing system using Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji.