Editing Sports in Japan (section)

===Basketball===
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[[Image:Yuta Tabuse (2008).jpg|thumb|140px|right|Yuta Tabuse is one of Japan's prime basketball players.]]
Especially since the emergence of [[Yuta Tabuse]] and [[Takuya Kawamura]], basketball has received a recent revival and become a popular sport in Japan.<ref name=consulteny>{{cite news|url=http://www.ny.us.emb-japan.go.jp/en/c/vol_12-4/title_04.html|title=Hoop Dreams - Yuta Tabuse, "The Jordan of Japan"|publisher=Consulate General of Japan in New York|date=December 2004 – January 2005|access-date=2009-01-19|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203204908/http://www.ny.us.emb-japan.go.jp/en/c/vol_12-4/title_04.html|archive-date=2010-12-03}}</ref> The [[Japan national basketball team]] won the [[FIBA Asia Championship]] twice and has qualified for the event 25 out of 26 times.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fibaasia.net/Competition_Archives.aspx?id=2 |title=FIBA Asia.net: Competition Archives |access-date=2012-02-02}}</ref> Japan was host to the [[2006 FIBA World Championship]] which was played in the host cities of [[Hamamatsu]], [[Hiroshima]], [[Saitama, Saitama|Saitama]], [[Sapporo]] and [[Sendai]] and on 9 December 2017, Japan was announced as co-host the [[2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup]] with Philippines and Indonesia some matches will be in host city of [[Okinawa City]].

The prime basketball league in the country is the [[B.League]].

In 2010 the [[Japan Basketball Association]] recognized [[Takehiko Inoue]], the creator of ''[[Slam Dunk (manga)|Slam Dunk]]'', for the series' role in popularizing the sport in Japan as part of its 80th anniversary celebrations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/29/showbiz/takehiko-inoue-human-to-hero/|title=How 'Slam Dunk' Manga artist brings characters to life|publisher=[[CNN]]}}</ref><ref name="sl">{{cite news|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-06-09/japan-basketball-association-awards-slam-dunk-inoue|title=Japan Basketball Association Awards Slam Dunk's Inoue|work=[[Anime News Network]]|date=June 9, 2010|access-date=June 17, 2013}}</ref>

In 2019, [[Rui Hachimura]] was selected ninth overall in the draft by the [[Washington Wizards]] of the NBA. He is a son between a Beninese father and Japanese mother.