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Japanese Volleyball Player Comes Out as Gay in Rare Case

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Takahashi said his brother Ran, who is a hugely popular star with Japan's national volleyball team, helped him come to terms with his sexuality.

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[OSEN=Jo Hyung-rae] Rui Takahashi (Suntory Sunbirds), the older brother of Japan's men's national volleyball team ace Ran Takahashi (Lublin, Poland), has come out. On the 29th, the Japanese media outlet 'The Answer' reported, "Rui Takahashi, a member of the Suntory Sunbirds Osaka in the SV.League men's division, revealed on his social media that he is gay." On his social media, Rui Takahashi wrote, "Since I was young, my

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Rui Takahashi, Ran Takahashi's older brother, announced on social media that he is gay. "Since childhood, I have been afraid of confronting a certain part of myself," he said on Instagram.

Rui Takahashi (26), a player for Suntory in the men's SV League volleyball league, publicly came out as gay on Instagram on the 29th. He spent about two years on the same team as his younger brother, Ran Takahashi, a member of the Japanese national team, until last season, and said, "Talking with Ran was the trigger that made me accept myself for the first time."

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東スポWeb – 東京スポーツ新聞社 broke the news in Osaka, Japan on Tuesday, September 29, 2026.
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