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! colspan="2" style="white-space: nowrap;" | Asteroids discovered: 4
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| 5881 Akashi || September 27, 1992
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| 6559 Nomura || May 3, 1991
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| 14873 Shoyo || October 28, 1990
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| 8892 Kakogawa ||September 11, 1994
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- with K. Kawanishi
- with T. Nomura
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is a Japanese astronomer.
He has discovered a number of asteroids, including 5881 Akashi (with T. Nomura), 6559 Nomura (with K. Kawanishi), and 8892 Kakogawa (with T. Nomura). He was also a co-discoverer of Comet Sugano-Saigusa-Fujikawa (C/1983 J1).
The asteroid 5872 Sugano is named after him. Asteroid 6155 Yokosugano was named for his wife, Yoko.
A long-time employee of Akashi Municipal Planetarium in Akashi, Hyōgo, Sugano worked to develop amateur astronomy in Japan.