It is a household name in Japan. Now, Fukuhara Ai is a member of the table tennis team of Bengang, China, and participates in the China Table Tennis Super Tournament. When she first joined, Japanese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao specially welcomed her to promote sports and cultural exchanges between Japan and China. Fukuhara Ai is not only good at acting, but also sweet-looking, and has the reputation of "porcelain doll". Coupled with her lively nature, she became a new generation idol. I remember that when Liaoning Bengang team moved some table tennis super competitions to Japan this year, she was warmly welcomed and highly concerned by Japanese media and audience, and became the first sports star in Japan.
Besides, Fukuhara Ai can speak fluent Chinese, which is quite popular in China. Recently, a famous Japanese news agency, * * *, made an exclusive interview with Fukuhara Ai. Talking about China, she said frankly: "I don't have a boyfriend yet", "Shanghai men are nice", "I love China people best" and "I don't look like Japanese at all".
In the interview, Fukuhara Ai especially thanked China's fans, thinking that they were more enthusiastic than Japanese fans and would cheer for her from beginning to end, making her feel that China would always be her home. She even thinks that she will be especially welcomed by Japanese fans when Chinese and Japanese players compete. In the Table Tennis Super League, Fukuhara Ai fought side by side with famous players such as Wang Nan and Guo Yue. Fukuhara Ai learned a lot about China from her idol Wang Nan.
For example, Wang Nan told her that the ideal of China men is to marry a Japanese woman, live in an American house, drive a German car and eat Chinese food. This even became a question Fukuhara Ai asked Japanese reporters, which shows that this little girl is smart. The Japanese reporter took the opportunity to ask her if she had a boyfriend. Fukuhara Ai sincerely told reporters that she was still young and had been busy with the competition, so she had no time at all. In addition to being lively, she also talked about some of her "love views". She thinks China people are tall, and she learned from Wang Nan that men in China and Shanghai are good and never get angry. And she has a lot of status. Previously, she also said many times that she liked Shanghai very much. However, as we all know, we appreciate Wang very much. The little table tennis princess has been paying attention to China athlete Wang, and regards him as a prince whom she has admired for a long time. The admiration for Wang started at the 46th World Table Tennis Championships in 20001,which was held in Osaka, Japan. Wang won the men's team, men's singles and men's doubles. When Wang lost to Wang Hao in the men's singles semi-final in 2004, the "porcelain doll" was very sad and even cried for him.
When it comes to the character of China people, Fukuhara Ai thinks that China people are natural, so she can say that smiling is not as stiff as Japanese people, and at this point, Fukuhara Ai thinks that she is nothing like Japanese people. She thinks she has been careless.
Fukuhara Ai's technical characteristics are forehand reverse glue, especially her backhand long glue fast break, and her "prince serve" is also very distinctive. Regarding the goal of table tennis, she said that she is mainly studying now, but she is also full of yearning. Fukuhara Ai was the youngest player in the Japanese team in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. She scored in the top 8 in the Paris World Championships and the Athens Olympic Games 16 respectively. She attaches great importance to the Olympic Games held in Beijing in 2008, which may be the stage for her to become a top player in the world.
Fukuhara Ai's mother specifically mentioned that half of Fukuhara Ai is from China. She went to China for training when she was very young, and the coach of "Porcelain Doll" came from China. In this interview, although Fukuhara Ai mainly talked about China, her participation in the Table Tennis Super League in China and her unique charm are indeed of great help to the friendly exchange of sports culture between China and Japan and the friendship between the two peoples, as diplomats have said. We also expect Fukuhara Ai to make greater contributions in this regard.