The Japan National Team appeared in the 1998 FIBA World Championship after a 31-year absence. The team was eliminated in the first round and failed to qualify for the tournament four years later. Kei Igarashi dribbles the ball during a team drill at a recent ...
URAYASU, Chiba Pref. -- More than an hour after Japan and Senegal had completed their exciting exhibition basketball game at the Urayasu City Sports Park Gymnasium on Sunday several hundred die-hard fans remained at the arena. They weren't going anywhere. They waited outside on this ...
Months of grueling training now come down to this: The Japan National Team wraps up its FIBA World Championship preparations with an exhibition game Sunday against Senegal. Tipoff is set for 2 p.m. at Urayasu Municipal Gymnasium, Chiba Prefecture. Then the team travels to Hiroshima for ...
Speed, agility, experience and poise -- versatility, unpredictability and desire, too. These are trademarks of the 12 basketball players named to the Japan National Team on Thursday night. KEI IGARASHI, shown during Japan national team practice Tuesday, was one of 12 players selected for the ...
His shoes have trudged across countless hardwood courts from Spain to Japan. Zeljko Pavlicevic, the Japan national team head basketball coach, addresses the media with the assistance of interpreter Ken Kusumoto after Friday's practice at the Japan Institute of Sports Science in Tokyo. Japan faces Senegal on ...
The Japanese national basketball team gave its fans plenty of reasons to smile Saturday afternoon. Reason No. 1: Japan closed out the Kirin Cup with a 72-62 victory over Iran at the National Yoyogi Stadium Second Gymnasium. Reason No. 2: Japan earned the victory by ...
