Yuko Oga is returning to the WBJL to play for the Toyota Antelopes, according to published reports this week.
The 32-year-old veteran guard, a Yamagata native, helped lead the Japan national team to the 2013 FIBA Asian Championship for Women title, its first continental title in 43 years.
In 2014, Oga was a key performer for Shanxi Xing Rui Flam as the team captured its second straight Women¡¯s Chinese Basketball Association crown.
A longtime member of the WJBL¡¯s JX (previously called JOMO) Sunflowers, the 170-cm Oga was named five times to the league¡¯s Best Five team. She also played for the WNBA¡¯s Phoenix Mercury in 2008 and represented Japan at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
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