Four Japanese basketball players send home for buying sex

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JAKARTA -- Four Japanese basketball players have been punished and sent home for buying sex while participating in the 18th Asian Games, Xinhua news agency quoted the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) here Monday.
Japanese delegation chief, Yasuhiro Yamashita told a press conference Monday that the four players were expelled from the Japanese national team and sent back to Japan.
He apologised for the players' misconduct, saying it violated the national team's code of conduct while betraying the expectations of the Japanese citizens.
The four players, Yuya Nagayoshi, 27, Takuya Hashimoto and Takuma Sato, both 23, and Keita Imamura, 22, reportedly went to a Japanese restaurant in Jakarta to have dinner following their team's victory on Aug 16, while wearing their team uniforms.
They left the restaurant after dinner and were approached by a tout on the street who introduced them to some women. They brought the women to a hotel where they allegedly conducted "inappropriate acts" and returned to the Athletes' Village the following morning.
The JOC conducted an investigation after receiving a report from outsiders, and the four players admitted to the misconduct.
Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, president of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), said the OCA was satisfied with the JOC's handling of the misconduct and called upon all athletes to remember their social responsibilities as they represented the image of their countries.
The rest of the Japanese basketball team will continue with their games through Sept 1, with no substitutes for the four ousted players.
Japan has sent a 1,096-member delegation, including some 762 athletes, to the Games co-hosted in Indonesia's capital Jakarta, and Palembang, the capital of South Sumatra province.

During the 2014 Asian Games held in Incheon, South Korea, a Japanese swimmer was expelled from the national team for stealing a camera from a local reporter.