Japanese athletes caught in sex storm

Four Japanese basketball players have been sent home from the Asian Games for allegedly paying prostitutes for sex, the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) said on Monday.

The players were spotted in a notorious red light district of Jakarta in their national jerseys last week, JOC officials told a media conference, saying the quartet was ordered to leave immediately.

News that Yuya Nagayoshi, Takuya Hashimoto, Takuma Sato, Keita Imamura had been booted out of the Games will come as a major embarrassment for Japan, which was forced to send a swimmer home from the 2014 Asiad in South Korea for stealing a journalist's camera.