The Japanese Basketball Association (JBA) has announced one-year penalties without playing Takuya Hashimoto, Keita Imamura, Yuya Nagayoshi and Takuma Sato, Japanese players who spent a night with four prostitutes in a hotel in Jakarta during the Games Asians

The players recognized the facts and asked for forgiveness, but they could not avoid their expulsion from the concentration. The situation forced Japan to count on only eight players during the rest of the Asian Games and helped their convincing elimination against Iran in the quarterfinals (93-67).

The events go back to August 16, when the four players, after the victory of Japan against Qatar (82-71), went to a restaurant in Jakarta, where they met a Japanese-speaking villager who told them of the existence of a bar where they could meet women.

The quartet, who still wore the uniform of the team at that time of night, appeared with companions in a hotel, where they stayed until dawn. This situation was rejected by the Olympic delegation for violating the rules of conduct and caused his expulsion from the tournament.