The Fujitsu Red Wave are a
basketball
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team based in
Kawasaki, Kanagawa
is a Cities of Japan, city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, one of the main cities of Greater Tokyo Area and Keihin Industrial Area. It is the second most populated city in Kanagawa Prefecture after Yokohama, and the List of cities in Japan, eight ...
, playing in the
Women's Japan Basketball League
The Women's Japan Basketball League is the premier women's basketball league in Japan.
History
Chanson Cosmetics was a dominant team in the early 1990s, winning 6 championships in a row.
Teams
Teams :
* Aisin Wings
* Chanson V-Magic
* Den ...
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Notable players
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Miwa Kuribayashi
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Rui Machida
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Ai Mitani
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Moeko Nagaoka
is a Japanese basketball player. She represented Japan in the basketball competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and at the 2020 Summer Olympics
The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from ...
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Yōko Nagi
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Monica Okoye
is a Japanese basketball player for Denso Iris and the Japanese national team. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal.
Personal life
Monica's mother is Japanese and her father is a Nigerian of Igbo descent. Her older b ...
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Mio Shinozaki
, is a Japanese professional basketball player who plays for Fujitsu Red Wave of the Women's Japan Basketball League. Before joining Fujitsu, she played for Shoin University and won All Japan Intercollegiate Basketball Championship tournament in ...
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Ayumi Suzuki
is a feminine Japanese given name. It is rarely used as a surname.
Possible writings
Ayumi can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
*歩み, "course" "walking" "progress"
;as a given name
*歩, "progress", "walking", "a step" ...
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Masami Tachikawa
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Chinatsu Yamamoto
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Ryoko Yano
Coaches
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Akemi Okazato
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Natsumi Yabuuchi
Natsumi Yabuuchi (薮内夏美, born 21 July 1977) is a Japanese former basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary ob ...
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BT Toews
Burke "BT" Toews (born February 8, 1966) is a Canadian basketball coach and former player. He is the head coach of the Fujitsu Red Wave in the Japanese Women's Japan Basketball League. Toews played professionally in Canada and Germany. His son K ...
Venues
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Tokkei Security Hiratsuka General Gymnasium
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Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium
is an indoor sports arena located in Naka-ku, Yokohama, Japan. The capacity of the arena is 5,000 people and was opened in 1962.
It is a five-minute walk from the closest subway station, Kannai Station, on the JR/Yokohama Municipal Subway.
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Yokosuka Arena
References
External links
Official website
{{Fujitsu
Basketball teams in Japan
Basketball teams established in 1985
1985 establishments in Japan
Fujitsu
Sport in Kawasaki, Kanagawa