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Naomi Osaka picks Japanese citizenship with eye on Olympics

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Japan's Naomi Osaka returns the ball to Slovak Dominika Cibulkova during their WTA Masters tournament tennis match in Rome at the Foro Italico, on May 16, 2019. [Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP]

Tennis star Naomi Osaka has decided to choose Japanese over American nationality with an eye on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, public broadcaster NHK reported Thursday.

Osaka, who has a Japanese mother and a Haitian father, told NHK she has completed an administrative step to obtain Japanese citizenship ahead of her birthday next week.

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