The four men’s national basketball team players who were penalized by the Japanese Olympic Committee for allegedly paying women for sex last weekend in Jakarta, where they were competing at the ongoing Asian Games, were sent home on Monday and faced up to the media at a Tokyo news conference.
"To those who are associated with the Japan Basketball Association, (my B. League club) Kyoto Hannaryz, all those who are on the Japanese delegation for the Asian Games, and my teammates and staff, I deeply regret our rash act," Yuya Nagayoshi, one of the four, said.
Takuya Hashimoto (Osaka Evessa), Takuma Sato (Shiga Lakestars) and Keita Imamura (Niigata Albirex BB) are the other three players who were involved in the incident.