At the 2024 All Japan Table Tennis Championships yesterday, coach Rui Nakazawa smiled toothlessly because his apprentices won the championship.
Women's Doubles champion and Rui Nakazawa
Mixed doubles champion and Rui Nakazawa
Nakazawa Rui, formerly known as Wang Rui in Chinese, was a table tennis player for the Hebei provincial team, but he was not selected for the national team. Later, he went to Japan to teach, and then he became a Japanese citizen and became Japanese.
This time, his apprentice Miu Hirano had just qualified for the Paris Olympics, while his apprentice Miyu Kihara (and Shinozuka Daito) won the mixed doubles and (with Miyu Nagasaki) won the women's doubles. Now he's really called Win Ma. It is said that the "future of Japanese table tennis" Miwa Zhang is also under his guidance, and he is still struggling in singles.
Why do athletes who go to Japan to play have to change their names to surnames that are as regular as the Japanese? Aren't the Chinese always paying attention to whether they don't change their names and sit and don't change their surnames? Those naturalized people who go to other countries to play in other countries have not changed their names and surnames, such as Tian Zhixi, Yuan Jianan, and even Qiu Dang (his parents became naturalized in Germany, he was born in Germany, and he has not changed his name and surname).
From the act of changing the name alone, it may be in line with the local naming habits, easy to remember, and the person who changes may have a greater sense of belonging. This is like the idea that many foreign students who come to China to study will take a Chinese name, right?
Or is it the naturalization requirements of Japan? Everything that wants to be naturalized must be changed, the purpose is to make the naturalized people forget their ancestors?
But as long as you don't eat Chinese food and smash Chinese pots, it doesn't matter, after all, there are also foreign athletes who join Chinese nationality to raise the national flag for us, isn't it?
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