Asian Games: Japanese basketball players expelled for buying sex

The Japanese Olympic Committee has penalized four players on the men's Asian Games basketball team for buying sex in Jakarta and sent them home, a senior official said Monday, in the latest in a spate of scandals as the country gears up for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games.Japanese delegation chief Yasuhiro Yamashita, speaking at a press conference in the Indonesian capital, said the players were stripped Sunday of their membership of the national team as their conduct violated the committee's rules.The B-League players -- Yuya Nagayoshi, 27, Takuya Hashimoto, 23, Takuma Sato, 23…READ FULL ARTICLE