There are many athletes in the Chinese sports world who have changed their names and become Japanese citizens. Now let us take a look at who they are.
Xiaoshan Zhili
Xiaoshan Zhili (He Zhili, September 30, 1964 -), born in Shanghai, is a table tennis player and coach. He is good at playing the looping style of holding the racket horizontally with his right hand. The former main singles player of the Chinese women's table tennis team, she is very strong and highly valued by coaches. The "He Zhili incident", also known as the "handicap incident", occurred at the 39th World Table Tennis Championships held in New Delhi, India in 1987, one year before the 1988 Olympics. In 1989, she married Japanese engineer Hideyuki Koyama and changed her name from her husband's surname to Chili Koyama. Divorced Hideyuki Koyama in 2000. Currently working as a table tennis coach in Japan.
Wei Qingguang
Wei Qingguang, male, former Chinese table tennis player. Born in Nanning, Guangxi on July 2, 1962, he entered the city's amateur sports school at the age of 8. He began to receive professional training in 1972 and joined the Guangxi team. In 1984, he represented Guangxi and won the national team, men's singles and mixed doubles championships, and the following year won the National men's doubles champion, entered the national team. In 1987, he won the National Sports Medal of Honor; in 1988, he was elected as one of the top ten athletes in the country.
In 1987 and 1988, Wei Qingguang cooperated with Chen Longcan and won the men's doubles championship in the 39th World Table Tennis Championships and the Seoul Olympics. Retired after the 1990 Beijing Asian Games.
In 1991, Wei Qingguang went to Japan to play basketball. In 1997, he became a Japanese citizen and changed his name to Weiguang Qingguang. In 2000, he represented Japan at the Sydney Olympics. Later, he served as the coach of Japanese table tennis team. He retired in 2007 and later served as the coach of the Japanese table tennis national team and the coach of Aomori Yamada Academy. Now he lives in Japan and is engaged in business.
Kawamura Lisa
Kawamura Lisa, female, native of Dalian City, now a Japanese basketball player. Kawamura Li Sha, formerly known as Li Shasha , was a former Chinese women's basketball player. On March 20, 2010, the Japan Basketball Association announced that Chinese-Japanese player Li Shasha was selected for the Japanese women's basketball national team. She will prepare for the next World Championship to be held in September in the Czech Republic. Li Shasha once played for two WCBA teams, Shandong and Yunnan. In the 2006-07 WCBA season, Li Shasha returned to China and was invited by basketball legend Ji Minshang to join the Shandong Women's Basketball Team.
Gaoyan Xuemei
Gaoyan Xuemei, formerly known as and Xuemei , is a female gymnast. She went to Japan to study at Kyushu Women's Junior College in 1995 and obtained Japanese citizenship in 2006.
Ma Yuan Chongying
Ma Yuan Chongying was born in Shanghai, China. His original Chinese name was Su Wei. He participated in the Chinese National Games when he was in high school and was able to rank among the top ten. He was also considered a top player in the Chinese diving community at that time. Ma Yuan Chongying came to Japan to study in 1988, and returned to his old job as a diving coach the next year. After meeting Ken Terauchi, who was in fifth grade, it changed the fate of both people. The two share the same love as father and son, and Ken Terauchi has become Ma Yuan Tongying's work and the continuation of his love for platform diving. In 1998, he became a Japanese citizen and changed his name to Mabuchi Takaei. His most popular disciple, Kenya Terauchi, grew up to become an international player.
Tang Yuanyuan
Tang Yuanyuan, a famous Chinese table tennis player, was once the captain of the Liaoning Provincial Team. In 2002, he began to serve as the coach of Japanese idol athlete Ai Fukuhara. In 2008, she became a Japanese citizen and changed her name to Zhang Lizi. .
Utsuki Reika
Utsuki Reika, formerly known as Ren Yanli, served as the captain of the Chinese softball team in the 1980s, and later moved to Japan and became a former Chinese player who entered the international arena carrying the Japanese flag. He is now a Japanese citizen.
Song Haiwei
After studying in Japan for 3 years of high school and 2 years of short college, Yoshida Haiwei joined Japan's "Nissan Club" (the top four clubs in Japan).
Japan requires players to be naturalized before they can represent the Japanese national team . So in March 2004, the 23-year-old Song Haiwei became a Japanese national.
Shuga Koyama
Shuga Koyama, the new idol of Japanese volleyball turns out to be a Chinese girl. In 1980, Wang Jiao and Xiao Shan were born in Fushun, Liaoning.
Shuka Koyama has a very low opinion on becoming a Japanese citizen, and the reason is very simple, just to be able to play football and live a life. “I didn’t start practicing volleyball until I arrived in Japan. After playing in the professional league, I have been working at Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical. However, the team already had a foreign player, and the Japanese League had regulations that each team could only have one foreign player, so I had no chance to play. Because my grandmother is Japanese, I thought twice and decided to join. If you are Japanese, you can play football."
html came to Japan in 2006 and was officially naturalized in 2002. Over the past few years, Shuka Koyama has completely integrated into Japanese life. “When I naturalized, my family had no objections and my friends were quite supportive.” Koyama is now with My parents live together. Although my parents have obtained permanent residence in Japan, they have not changed their nationality. "They often have to go back. After changing their nationality, they have to sign frequently. It is very troublesome, so I have not changed it."
