Congratulations to Takashi Inoue and Takumi Maekawa of the Samurai Ballers who performed at Fukuoka Now’s Creative Community 2014 event last November, for winning first and second place in the Freestyle Basketball Battle 2014 Japan Finals. Their performance will be broadcasted around the world to 140 countries in English in a 30 minute NHK-TV program.
• Program title: Sports Japan by NHK World
• Program theme: Japan’s Freestyle Basketball Leads the World
• On air: 2/1 (Sun.) 23:10~23:40 (rebroadcast: 2/2 (Mon.) 5:10~5:40, 11:30~12:00, 17:30~18:00)
• http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/tv/sportsjapan/archives201501280600.html