Four Japan athletes have been sent home from the Asian Games in prostitute scandal

News24xx.com -  The Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) said Monday, August 20 2018, four Japanese basketball players have been sent home from the Asian Games in disgrace for allegedly paying prostitutes for sex.

Before, the players were spotted in a notorious red light district of Jakarta in their national jerseys last week.

News that four Japanese basketball players named Yuya Nagayoshi, Takuya Hashimoto, Takuma Sato, Keita Imamura had been booted out will come as a major embarrassment for Japan. Before, in the Asian Games 2014,  a swimmer were send back to Japan because she stealing a journalist's camera.

Japanese swimmer Naoya Tomita was expelled from the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, four years ago after being caught on video stealing a journalist's camera.

The basketball players had dinner after leaving the Asian Games village and are believed to have been solicited by touts on the street to go to a hotel with women.

Yasuhiro Yamashita, Japan's chef de mission told reporters, "I just feel a sense of shame. We deeply apologise and intend to give the athletes thorough guidance from now on."

Japan basketball chief Yuko Mitsuya said in a statement, "I would like to humbly apologise to the Japanese public, the JOC and everyone who supports basketball for this deplorable incident," 

"We will decide on the appropriate punishment for the four players once we have heard all the facts. We need to work harder to make sure this kind of scandal does not happen again."

 

 

 

 

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