Named in honor of Chikara Sugawa (1916– ), who worked for the International Latitude Observatory in Mizusawa {see planet  (7530)} during 1943–1981. In 1984 he was nominated as the first president of the Herschel Society of Japan, and the following year he realized a Herschel concert in Tokyo and led a study tour to Europe. Since then he has done much to promote knowledge of the Herschels {see planet  (2000)} and their contemporaries. (M 26766) _ _.