Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Kawabuchi ya kuma yi aiki tare da 'yan wasan hockey na Japan na maza a lokacin da yake a Iwakura. A shekarar 1962, ya horar da kungiyar kwallon kafa ta kasa zuwa lambar zinare a rukunin B na gasar zakarun duniya ta 1962 Ice Hockey.
aka buga a Colorado Springs, Colorado. Tawagarsa ta lashe dukkan wasannin biyar da ya horar a gasar, tare da cin nasara a kan Faransa, Ostiraliya, Austria, Netherlands, da Denmark. Daga baya ya yi aiki a matsayin manajan kungiyar kwallon kafa ta kasa don wasan hockey na kankara a wasannin Olympics na 1964, inda Japan ta kasance ta uku a rukunin B tare da nasara hudu, asara biyu, da kuma wasa daya.