Kentaro Asahi
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朝日 健太郎 | |||||||||||||||
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| Member of the House of Councillors | |||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 26 July 2016 | |||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Kota Matsuda | ||||||||||||||
| Constituency | Tokyo at-large | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | 19 September 1975 Kita-ku, Kumamoto, Japan | ||||||||||||||
| Political party | Liberal Democratic | ||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Hosei University Waseda University | ||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.99 m (6 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 83 kg (183 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Kentaro Asahi (朝日健太郎, Asahi Kentarō, born September 19, 1975) is a Japanese professional beach volleyball player and politician. He was born in Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan.
Asahi played as a center for the Japan men's national volleyball team in the 1990s. He ended up in sixteenth place at the 1998 World Championship, and later on started a career in beach volleyball. Asahi and teammate Katsuhiro Shiratori represented Japan in beach volleyball at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.
Asahi began to work for the IT company Forval Corporation in 2011 through a Japanese Olympic Committee athlete hiring program.
In July 2016, Asahi was elected as a member of the House of Councillors representing the Tokyo at-large district for the Liberal Democratic Party.