Kentaro_Asahi

Kentaro Asahi

Kentaro Asahi

Japanese beach volleyball player and politician

Kentaro Asahi (朝日健太郎, Asahi Kentarō, born September 19, 1975) is a Japanese professional beach volleyball player and politician. He was born in Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan.

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Asahi played as a center for the Japan men's national volleyball team in the 1990s. He ended up in sixteenth place at the 1998 World Championship, and later on started a career in beach volleyball. Asahi and teammate Katsuhiro Shiratori represented Japan in beach volleyball at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.[1]

Asahi began to work for yhr IT company Forval Corporation in 2011 through a Japanese Olympic Committee athlete hiring program.[2]

In July 2016, Asahi was elected as a member of the House of Councillors representing the Tokyo at-large district for the Liberal Democratic Party.[3]

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References

  1. [1]
    "Kentaro Asahi". 2012 Summer Olympics. Archived from the original on 2013-04-02. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
  2. [2]
    "Japan's athlete hiring program finding more success as 2020 Olympics approach". The Japan Times. Jiji. 16 February 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  3. [3]
    "朝日健太郎氏、当選 自民・東京 元ビーチバレー代表". Asahi Shimbun. 11 July 2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
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