I came across this story from Japan and it sent me down a small rabbit hole. The player is Yuji Nishida. At a volleyball event in Kobe this February, he misfired a serve, accidentally hit the courtside line judge in the back, and then did this.What he is doing has a name. It is called a dogeza. In Japan it is the deepest apology a person can physically make. You drop to your knees and lower your forehead toward the ground, so the other person ends up literally above you. It is not a casual sorry

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