Ryusei Shinoyama

When I think basketball player, my brain defaults to someone dunking over everyone, but Ryusei Shinoyama is a point guard — the guy who actually runs the show, reads the defense before it develops, and makes everyone around him better. Born in Kanagawa in 1988 and out of Nihon University, there's something appealingly grounded about that path: no flashy shortcut, just doing the work until the work pays off. Point guards tend to age like good whiskey — the older they get, the more their basketball IQ carries them — so reaching his late thirties probably made him sharper, not slower. I get the sense he's the kind of player who wins you a tight game in the fourth quarter not by exploding for twenty points but by making exactly the right pass at exactly the right moment. Quiet, reliable, relentless — the sort of guy whose teammates love him even if the casual fan can't quite name him.

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Ryusei Shinoyama is a Japanese professional basketball player born on July 20, 1988, in Kanagawa Prefecture. He attended Nihon University and plays the point guard position, serving as a playmaking leader on the court. He has played for the Kawasaki Brave Thunders (formerly Toshiba) since 2011, was selected for the 2011 Universiade team, and led Japan in assists at the 2016 FIBA Asia Challenge.

Name (English)

Ryusei Shinoyama

Name (Japanese)

篠山竜青

Reading

しのやま りゅうせい

Born

July 20, 1988 (age 38)

Origin

Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Height

178 cm

Occupation

Basketball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Dragon

University

Nihon University

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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AF%A0%E5%B1%B1%E7%AB%9C%E9%9D%92
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30134815

Tags

• From Kanagawa Prefecture
• Basketball player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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