is a Japanese professional
basketball
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player. He currently plays for the
San-en NeoPhoenix
is a B.League professional basketball team, based in the eastern Mikawa and Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture region of central Japan.
The team was founded in 1965 as the company team of the OSG Corporation, a Toyokawa-based machine parts manufa ...
club of the
B.League in Japan.
He represented
Japan's national basketball team at the
2016 FIBA Asia Challenge
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.
He did
judo
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at the
elementary school
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. There was no judo club in his
junior high school
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and switched to basketball. He received entrance offers from 73 high schools and chose the Kashiwa High School in
Chiba Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Chiba Prefecture has a population of 6,278,060 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Chiba Prefecture borders Ibaraki Prefecture to the north, Saitama Prefecture to the ...
, following the
Nakamura's advice.
References
External links
Asia-basket.com profileReal GM profile
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1984 births
Living people
Centers (basketball)
Japanese men's basketball players
San-en NeoPhoenix players
People from Toyokawa, Aichi
Sportspeople from Aichi Prefecture
Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan
Asian Games medalists in basketball
Basketball players at the 2014 Asian Games
Basketball players at the 2018 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games