Funabashi (Japan) (AFP) – Japan has ambitious plans to become a basketball powerhouse but a row involving star player Rui Hachimura and disagreements over the domestic league's direction mean success ...

League’s “mix of sport and live entertainment” offers Japanese ... threatened to quit the team after a scathing attack on Japanese basketball chiefs. The 27-year-old, by far the country ...

FUNABASHI – Japan have ambitious plans to become basketball powerhouses ... Shimada said the B.League’s “mix of sport and live entertainment” offers Japanese fans something different.

Japan may have been bounced from the Basketball World Cup but not before one of its shortest players helped the national team overcome a naggingly high hurdle on the international stage.

As an assistant coach and interpreter for the Japanese men's national basketball team, Geoffrey Katsuhisa proved his worth as the team's "sixth man" at the recent FIBA Basketball World Cup in Okinawa.