is a Japanese professional

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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

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. He did

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at the

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. There was no judo club in his

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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. Atsuya Ohta

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Asia-basket.com profile

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ota, Atsuya 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