Rui Hachimura Japanese Roots | Learn Real English

Rui Hachimura Japanese Roots | Learn Real English

Learn Real English | Rui Hachimura

Japanese professional basketball Rui Hachimura has been acquired by the Los Angeles Lakers in a trade from the Washington Wizards. In an ESPN interview, Rui talks about his experiences growing in Japan as a black person. In this lesson, we’re going to take a look at what he said, learn some of the key phrases, and how to use them.


日本のプロバスケットボールの八村塁選手が、トレードが成立したことで、ワシントン・ウィザーズからのロサンゼルス・レイカーズに移籍しました。ESPNのインタビューでは、塁選手は黒人として日本で育った経験について語っています。このレッスンでは、彼の発言をみながら、キーフレーズとその使い方を学びましょう。

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English Interview Transcript | Rui Hachimura

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  • I’m talking about Japanese. You’re biracial Japanese. How has that made your, just experience unique?

Yeah, for sure. Um, like here like I mean now there’s a lot, like, I’m not gonna say many, but like you know a good number of, like, mixed people, like you, know black and Japanese or…

When I was in, especially in my hometown, you know, Toyama, they didn’t really have a black person over there so I was literally the one.

Like me and my family are the only ones that out there and the black person. And growing up it was tough in the beginning but like by the time I got into like sports; baseball, basketball, and all kind of stuff and people started respecting me, and like I was more able to be myself.

And yeah it was a tough for me but it’s also a lot of great experience.

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