Shigeru Furuyama (1953– ) is a post-office clerk and renowned amateur astronomer in Japan. During his nine-year visual search for comets, Furuyama independently discovered C/1975 T2. In 1979 he changed from visual to photographic observing and later discovered C/1987 W2. (M 43192) _ _.
Discovered on 10-10-1996 in Kuma Kogen by Nakamura, A.