Mototaka Kohama, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese basketball player
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Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
About Mototaka Kohama
- Mototaka Kohama (????, Kohama Mototaka) was a Japanese basketball Head coach for the Akita Isuzu Motors, Isuzu Motors Lynx/Giga Cats and Yokohama Giga Cats.
- He was known as the “Godfather of Japanese basketball,” and served as head coach of the Japan national basketball team three times.
- Growing up in Akita during WWII as a young boy, he was told to stop playing basketball because it was an American sport.
- The pioneer studied basketball coaching at the University of Kentucky.
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