Japan punishes four basketball player for spending night with women

Japan have sent home four players from their men's basketball team at the 18th Asian Games for spending the night in a Jakarta hotel with women, head of the delegation Yasuhiro Yamashita said on Monday.

Following their game on Thursday, the quartet left the athletes' village to eat at a Japanese restaurant where they met an unidentified person and then checked into at a nearby hotel with the women, he said.

"The NOC (National Olympic Committee) Japan decided to withdraw their accreditation and send them back to Japan early this morning," Yamashita told a news conference.

"This is a disciplinary issue and I apologize to all Japanese people and those who are supporting us. I'm determined to avoid this kind of disciplinary issues."

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