{
  "id": 10655025,
  "title": "Volleyball Player Rui Takahashi, Brother of Ran, Comes Out as Gay",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/volleyball-player-rui-takahashi-brother-of-ran-comes-out-as-gay",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-29T08:39:45.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Nippon.com News",
    "slug": "nippon-com-news",
    "url": "https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2026092900379/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Tokyo, Sept. 29 (Jiji Press)--Japanese volleyball player Rui Takahashi, who belongs to the Suntory Sunbirds Osaka team, came out as gay in a social media post on Tuesday. The 26-year-old noted that spending time with his younger brother, Japanese star Ran Takahashi, on the same team until last season was significant to him. \"Conversations with Ran led me to accept myself for the first ti...",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}