Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Nomura ya sake lashe gasar zakarun Judo ta Japan a shekarar 1997, kuma ya lashe lambar zinare a gasar zakarun duniya ta Judo ta 1997
a Paris don karfafa matsayinsa a matsayin babban mai fafatawa a ajin nauyinsa. Bayan ya lashe gasar zakarun Japan da aka zaba a karo na uku a jere a shekarar 1998, ya ji rauni a gwiwarsa ta hagu a wasan kusa da na karshe na gasar Jigoro Kano a ranar 9 ga Janairu, 1999, kuma an tilasta masa janyewa daga gasar. Bai shiga cikin gasa ba har tsawon shekara don murmurewa daga wannan raunin kuma ya kammala digirinsa a ilimin kiwon lafiya.