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Place of Birth: Ōsaka, Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan
About Joji Takeuchi
- Joji Takeuchi (?? ???born January 29, 1985 in Suita, Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese professional basketball player.
- He plays for the Alvark Tokyo of the B.League. Takeuchi also is a member of the Japan national basketball team, playing for the team in the 2006 FIBA World Championship and both the FIBA Asia Championship 2007 and FIBA Asia Championship 2009.
- Takeuchi's twin brother Kosuke is also a member of the Japanese national basketball team.As a 21-year-old, Takeuchi averaged 6.2 points and 5.2 rebounds per game for the host Japanese at the 2006 FIBA World Championship.
- Takeuchi has earned a bigger role with the Japanese team over the past four years; his best tournament performance to date was at the FIBA Asia Championship 2009, in which he averaged 9.8 points and 7.2 rebounds per game.
- Despite his performance, Japan stumbled to a disappointing tenth-place finish, its worst ever performance in 24 FIBA Asia Championship appearances. Takeuchi played professionally with the Hitachi SunRockers of the JBL Super League.
- In the 2009-10 season, Takeuchi entered the month-long winter break averaging 16.1 points and 9.4 rebounds per game for the third-place Seahorses.
- He was also named to the JBL All-Star Game as the leading power forward vote-getter for the East.
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