Gifu ¨C Japan should be proud of Rui Hachimura. The 23-year-old Toyama Prefecture native, who is of Beninese Japanese descent, is only the second Japanese-born basketball player to be drafted by the NBA (the first being Yasutaka Okayama in 1981), where he¡¯s now a power forward for the Washington Wizards.
His younger brother, Aren ¡°Allen¡± Hachimura, plays basketball, too. But earlier this month the Tokai University athlete was in the news for a different reason: an Instagram message that told him he and his brother were ¡°born by mistake¡± and ¡°should die.¡±
¡°Some people say that racial discrimination does not exist in Japan,¡± . ¡°But I would like the public to take an interest in the matter.¡±
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