FURUSAWA Takuya

Rank	Event	Year	Location
World Championships
9	Men	2018	Hamburg, GER
Asian Para Games
2	Men	2018	Jakarta, INA

Taku, Takuchan (parasapo.tokyo, 10 Feb 2020)

Watching sports, particularly football and baseball, eating green tea-flavoured desserts and snacks. (style.nikkei.com, 14 Aug 2018; sponichi.co.jp, 17 Jun 2018)

Student

Humanities - Toin Yokohama University , Japan

Japanese

Kazuyuki Kyoya [national], JPN

Guard (suntory.co.jp, 25 Jul 2018)

2017 for Japan (wedge.ismedia.jp, 19 Mar 2018)

He took up the sport in grade seven of middle school at the Yokohama Rapport in Japan. (townnews.co.jp, 01 Jan 2020; wedge.ismedia.jp, 19 Mar 2018; hamaspo.com, Jul 2018)

He initially played baseball, but he was forced to quit the sport after he began using a wheelchair. Afterwards, he took up wheelchair tennis following his mother's suggestion, but he did no find it interesting because there were no teammates in his age group. At that time he had a chance to try wheelchair basketball at a Para sports facility. "I was fascinated by the sport, because it is a team sport like baseball, so I can play it with many teammates." (wedge.ismedia.jp, 19 Mar 2018)

To win a medal at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo, and to play overseas. (townnews.co.jp, 01 Jan 2020; parasapo.tokyo, 28 Aug 2019)

He received the Three Points Award at the 2019 Emperor's Cup in Japan. (basketball-zine.com, 28 May 2019)

He received an Excellence Award at the 2018 Yokohama Sports Awards in Japan. (hamaspo.com, Mar 2019)

He was named an All Star Five Player at the 2017 U23 World Championships in Toronto, ON, Canada. (iwbf.org, 17 Jun 2017)