Mototaka Kohama
Mototaka Kohama 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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Male
Date of Birth
October 17th, 1932
Age
93
Birth Place
Japan
Date of Death
January 12nd, 2017
Died Aged
84
Star Sign
Libra
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