Given the question: Facts: - weight lb: 175 - position: point guard - height in: 11 - league: jbl super league - team: toyota alvark - height ft: 5 - birth date: 7 may 1980 - name: kei igarashi - draft: undrafted - nationality: japanese - image: igarashi kei.jpg - birth place: niigata , niigata , japan Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of kei igarashi .
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kei igarashi -lrb- born may 7 , 1980 in niigata , niigata , japan -rrb- is an japanese professional basketball player .he plays for the toyota alvark of the jbl super league .takeuchi also is a member of the japan national basketball team , playing for the team in the 2006 fiba world championship and both the fiba asia championship 2007 and fiba asia championship 2009 .igarashi averaged 9 points and 3 assists per game for the host japanese at the 2006 fiba world championship .igarashi scored a team-high 18 points and added three assists in japan 's lone win at the tournament , a 78-61 preliminary round victory over panama .in his most recent , national team appearance , igarashi had a team-leading 3.6 assists per game , good for third best overall in the tournament .despite his performance , japan stumbled to a disappointing tenth place finish , its worst ever performance in 24 fiba asia championship appearances .igarashi currently plays professionally with the toyota alvark of the jbl super league .in the current 2009-10 season , takeuchi entered the month-long winter break averaging 9.3 points and 2.9 assists per game for the alvark .the popular igarashi was also named to the jbl all-star game as the leading point guard vote-getter for the east .