{"id":1563047,"date":"2023-03-15T15:07:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T15:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/1563047\/"},"modified":"2023-03-15T15:07:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T15:07:50","slug":"in-memory-of-naonobu-fujii-%e8%97%a4%e4%ba%95%e7%9b%b4%e4%bc%b8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/1563047\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memory of Naonobu Fujii (\u85e4\u4e95\u76f4\u4f38)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AJbPFmJTnQc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nJapanese volleyball is mourning  the passing of Olympic player Naonobu Fujii, at the age of only 31 from stomach cancer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot bear the sadness of losing a player who was the center of the team, including his personality, and who was expected to play an active role in the future,&#8221; a statement from his club Toray Arrows said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would like to express our sincere gratitude to you for your kindness in life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Japan Volleyball Association President Shunichi Kawai also paid tribute to the player on his passing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please rest in peace, I pray from the bottom of my heart that he may rest in peace,&#8221; Kawai said.<\/p>\n<p>Fujii had been diagnosed with the disease only a few months after playing in the Tokyo Olympics as a setter.<\/p>\n<p>Volleyball TV: https:\/\/welcome.volleyballworld.tv<br \/>\nWatch ALL the Volleyball Action https:\/\/welcome.volleyballworld.tv<br \/>\nInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/volleyballworld\/<br \/>\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FIVBVolleyballWorld\/<br \/>\nTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIVBVolleyball<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese volleyball is mourning the passing of Olympic player Naonobu Fujii, at the age of only 31 from stomac<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1563048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[381261,602094,159589,142525,602099,602096,381293,602095,381006,602097,381255,602098,144318,383264,30454,602100,384205,138580,381263,166450],"class_list":{"0":"post-1563047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-best-volleyball-setter","9":"tag-fujii-volleyball","10":"tag-ishikawa-volleyball","11":"tag-japan-volleyball","12":"tag-japan-volleyball-history","13":"tag-japanese-volleyball-player","14":"tag-masahiro-sekita","15":"tag-most-creative-volleyball-setter","16":"tag-naonobu-fujii","17":"tag-naonobu-fujii-died","18":"tag-naonobu-fujii-volleyball","19":"tag-nishida-volleyball","20":"tag-ran-takahashi","21":"tag-toray-arrows","22":"tag-volleyball","23":"tag-volleyball-2023","24":"tag-volleyball-setter","25":"tag-138580","26":"tag-381263","27":"tag-166450"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1563048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}