Kammala wannan jumla: Ya yi wasan farko na kasa da kasa a kan ciyawa a
1999 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, amma ya kasance a waje da saman 100 na gajeren tseren maza. Ya kasance mai tsere a gasar zakarun Japan a wannan shekarar, amma ya dawo cikin gaba a 2000 tare da cin nasara a duka gasar zakarun kasar da wasannin. Fitowar Yoshitaka Iwamizu a gasar zakarun Japan ta 2001 ya nuna canjin tsara. Kodayake Uchitomi ya gudu a cikin minti 8:29.63 (na uku mafi kyau a cikin aikinsa), Iwamizu ya doke shi, wanda zai ci gaba da lashe lakabi biyar a jere. Uchitomi ya kare kambinsa a Wasannin Asiya ta Gabas na 2001 kuma ya inganta rikodin wasanninsa zuwa minti 8:33.98, ya doke dan kasar Wataru Izumi zuwa matsayi na biyu kamar yadda ya yi a 1997. Ya kuma dauki taken tseren tsere don Kamfanin Wutar Lantarki na Chugoku a Gasar Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Was