is a Japanese volleyball

Volleyball

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 player. She plays a V-Premier League team Takefuji

Takefuji

is a Japanese consumer finance company, or sarakin. On September 28, 2010 it filed a petition for commencement of a corporate re-organisation under the Japanese Corporate Reorganisation Act.-Services:...

 Bamboo

Bamboo

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. She was born on September 5, 1978 in Katsushika, Tokyo

Tokyo

, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

, Japan

Japan

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. She entered Ito Yokado Prior

Prior

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 on April 1997, after graduating from Kyoei High School.

When she was high school student

Kumakura played the World Youth Women's Volleyball Championship in 1995 as a Japan

Japan

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ese representative (with Yoshie Takeshita

Yoshie Takeshita

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, Hiromi Suzuki, Miyuki Mori, and Makiko Horai

Makiko Horai

Makiko Horai is a former Japanese volleyball player.She also played for Japan National women's volleyball team and participated at the 2006 World Championship...

). Her team won the championship. Kumakura said to Mori, "I was spiked by Valentina Borrelli

Valentina Borrelli

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 (an Italian left-handed

Left-handed

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 player who spiked a ball very near on net in a pre-championship, Japan

Japan

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, Italy

Italy

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, Cuba

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,and Russia

Russia

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)". And "Although Franco (an Italian player), is left-handed, hits a ball center comparatively".