鄧荻：來自重慶的乒乓球使者

文/本刊記者 楊艷

Deng Di (third from the right) led his team to take part in a table tennis championship.鄧荻（右三）帶隊參加乒乓球比賽。

Every day, many table tennis lovers practice hard and work up a sweat in the Kamata Table Tennis Club of Tamagawa,Ota-ku, Tokyo. The club is founded by Deng Di, a native of Chongqing.

Deng said, “Besides, we also have an individual training center in Kanagawa Prefecture. There are five teams at different levels in the club that usually participate in various games hosted by the Japan Table Tennis Association and local organizations. Most players in my club are table tennis fans with the respect for Chinese table tennis.”He has been driven by the “mission to promote table tennis” since he came to Japan.

The Table Tennis Club Run by a Chinese Being Popular

In 1963, Deng Di was born in Yuzhong District, Chongqing.Deng became a fan of table tennis when he was in elementary school.In 1974, he started to receive professional training. In 1978, he was a member of the provincial team in Sichuan. Then Deng Di took part in the national junior table tennis championship after one-year hard training, competing with Jiang Jialiang, the later world champion. Deng won the third place in the team game and earned the third-class merit in Sichuan Province. The Swedish national table tennis team came to China for a visit in 1982. In the China-Sweden table tennis game, Deng Di, representing the Chinese national team, competed with Waldner, the world superstar, and got a good score.

在日本東京大田區多摩川，有一家蒲田乒乓球俱樂部。每天都有一群乒乓球愛好者在這里揮汗如雨，勤奮練習。俱樂部的創辦人叫鄧荻，一個地道的重慶人。

“除大田區俱樂部外，我們在神奈川縣還建立了個人培訓中心。俱樂部有5個不同級別的球隊，經常參加日本乒協和地方組織的各種比賽。來這里的大多是日本乒乓球愛好者，他們都帶著對中國乒乓球的敬意而來。”鄧荻說，從他到日本的那一天起，就一直堅持著推廣乒乓球的“使命”。

中國人辦的乒乓球俱樂部很有名氣

1963年，鄧荻出生在重慶市渝中區，小學時就喜歡上了乒乓球。1974年，他開始專業訓練；1978年，進入四川省體工隊。經過一年艱苦訓練，鄧荻參加了全國少年乒乓球賽，與后來的世界冠軍江嘉良同臺競技，獲得了團體組第三名，榮立四川省三等功；1982年，瑞典國家乒乓球隊訪問中國。在中瑞對抗賽中，鄧荻代表國家隊對陣世界名將瓦爾德內爾，獲得一勝一負的好成績。

In 1985, Deng retired from the national team. And he went to Chongqing University for study, during which he had an exchange visit to Japan, his first overseas trip.

In 1990, Deng Di, as the head coach of the Chongqing Hiroshima Team,led the team to participate in a table tennis game held in Japan with other teams from Chinese and Japanese sister cities. Following that, he was invited by the Hiroshima-City Table Tennis Association to give lectures at companies and schools in Tokyo and Hiroshima.

Deng Di was impressed by the Japanese people’s enthusiasm and positive climate in sports. In 1992, Deng went to Japan for study. He enrolled in Nippon Sport Science University with the major of sports psychology. In 1998, Deng chose to stay in Japan after graduation, as he said, “Japan needs high-level coaches.”

“To carry forward table tennis in Japan, an independent platform is a prerequisite.” In order to put his teaching philosophy and methods into better effect, Deng Di founded the Kamata Table Tennis Club in 2004. He has devoted himself to training those table tennis lovers for many years. The table tennis club run by a Chinese rose to a fame.

Deng Di has won five times in the Nissan Cup National Table Tennis Championship, a championship known by almost everyone in Japan, which brought him a growing number of table tennis followers. The club has more than 100 members until now, ranging from teenage students to octogenarians.

“Chinese table tennis players’ marvelous skills impressed us a lot.” Yoshida,a table tennis lover from Japan, is among those attracted by Chinese table tennis.In 2004, he found his weaknesses after a game against Deng Di, and has been Deng’s student for the next 12 years to hone his skills. Later, he became the two-time champion in community table tennis game.

1985年，他退役回到重慶，進入重慶大學學習。大學期間，鄧荻第一次走出國門，就是赴日本交流訪問。

1990年，鄧荻以“重慶廣島隊”總教練的身份，率隊參加日本舉行的中日友好城市組隊的乒乓球賽。隨后，廣島乒乓球協會邀請他到東京、廣島的企業、學校講學。

日本人的熱情好學和良好的體育氛圍，給鄧荻留下了深刻的印象。1992年，鄧荻遠赴日本學習，報考了日本體育大學，學習體育心理學。1998年，他畢業選擇留在日本，他認為，“日本需要高水平教練。”

“要將乒乓球運動在日本發揚光大，必須要有自己的平臺。”為了讓自己的教學理念和方法得到更好的實踐，2004年，鄧荻創立了蒲田乒乓球俱樂部。多年來，他所有的精力都放在乒乓球愛好者訓練上，這家中國人辦的乒乓球俱樂部名氣越來越大。

日本家喻戶曉的日產杯全國乒乓球大賽，鄧荻先后拿過5次冠軍，這也讓他的乒乓球追隨者越來越多。俱樂部發展至今，擁有超過100名常年會員，小到十來歲的學生，上到八旬老人。

Members of Kamata Table Tennis Club Participating in the 2016 Japan-China Friendship Cup Table Tennis Game.莆田乒乓球俱樂部隊員參加2016年日中友好杯乒乓球大會。

“中國乒乓球讓我們大開眼界。”日本乒乓球愛好者吉田就是其中一位。2004年，他在與鄧荻交手后發現自己的差距，跟著鄧荻一學就是12年，后來他在社區乒乓球比賽中拿過兩次冠軍。

China-Japan Friendship Strengthened by Ping-Pong Games

Deng Di’s club is a magnet for both Japanese table tennis lovers and Chinese fans in Japan, including those from Chongqing. “After coming to Japan, I knew many friends from rounds of table tennis games. Apart from comparing notes, we also took the club as a platform for people of both countries to make acquaintance with each other, interact and cement our friendship.”

In May 2008, a middle school in Liangping District of Chongqing collapsed in Wenchuan Earthquake. Right after hearing the tragedy,members of the club raised money and donated it to the Foreign Affairs Office of Chongqing Municipal People’s Government, which was used for table tennis facilities and music classrooms in several schools of Liangping District.

As a Chinese poem goes, “While mountains and rivers separate us, we enjoy the same moonlight under the same sky.” In March 2011,a massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck Japan, shaking the Kanto region (including Tokyo) and the Tohoku region widely. Aftershocks arrived continuously and terrifying tsunami hit some areas, severely affecting air, land and sea transport and momentarily disrupting communications. Secondary disasters such as landslides and fires as well as casualties were reported frequently. The data showed that about 6.5 million people in Tokyo on that day were forced to stay and could not return home because of the traffic paralysis. Deng Di recalled that traffic disruptions in the Japanese metropolitan area caused by earthquake impeded a sea of people to get home, who had to cluster around the subway stations. In such a context, Deng Di provided free accommodations to the trapped club members, offering them assistance in time. “The Japanese trainees temporarily living in the club felt much more at ease, and they were very grateful for the help they received from the club. They left gradually till the traffic resumed to normal by degrees”, Deng Di said.

In 2014, The Japan-China Friendship Cup Table Tennis Game was hosted for the first time to celebrate the 10thanniversary of Kamata Table Tennis Club, participated by 80 teams and nearly 300 Chinese and Japanese athletes. In 2017 and 2018, with the support of the Chinese Embassy in Japan, the Japan-China Friendship Association,and the Ota City Government, two more Japan-China Friendship Cup Table Tennis Games were successfully held in succession. The one with the largest scale was attended by 112 teams and 600 athletes.The games paved the way for China-Japan friendly exchanges in table tennis and promoted the mutual understanding between both peoples.

“I hope more Japanese can boost China-Japan friendship through table tennis, and I also expect more Chongqing people in Japan join our family to unite as one with concerted efforts.” Although having become a permanent resident in Japan, Deng Di has no plan to immigrate to Japan. His permanent household registration is still in Yuzhong District, Chongqing, and his QQ nickname will always be“Chongqinger”.

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以球會友增進中日民間友誼

鄧荻的俱樂部不僅吸引日本學員，也有很多在日本的中國乒乓球愛好者，以及重慶老鄉，“來到日本后，我就以球會友。除了切磋球技，這里也成了中國人與日本人交友、交流，增進友誼的平臺。”

2008年5月，汶川大地震，聽說重慶梁平一所中學房屋倒塌。當天，大家籌得善款，立即轉交到重慶市人民政府外事僑務辦公室，用于梁平幾所學校的乒乓球場地和音樂教室建設。

山川異域，風月同天。2011年3月，日本發生8.8級大地震，包括東京在內的關東地區、東北地區等大范圍內均有強烈晃動。此后余震不斷，部分地區發生大海嘯，海陸空交通受到嚴重影響，通訊也一時中斷。山體滑坡、火災等次生災害和人員傷亡報告不斷。有數據顯示，當天東京地區大約650萬人因交通癱瘓而被迫滯留，無法回家。鄧荻回憶，地震造成日本首都圈交通中斷，城鐵各站周邊滿是難以回家的人。他的俱樂部及時出手援助，向不能回家的日本學員開放，為他們免費提供住宿。“把俱樂部作為臨時居所，在此避難的日本學員在一起感到安心多了，俱樂部的雪中送炭讓他們十分感激。直到交通逐步恢復正常，學員們才有序離開。”鄧荻說。

2014年為慶祝蒲田乒乓球俱樂部成立十周年，第一次舉辦了日中友好杯乒乓球大賽，有80個代表隊近300名中日運動員參賽。2017年、2018年，在中國駐日本大使館和日中友好協會，以及大田區政府的支持下，又連續成功舉辦了兩屆日中友好杯乒乓球大賽。最大規模有112個代表隊、600名運動員參賽，為中日乒乓球友好交流搭建了更大的舞臺，也讓兩國民眾更加了解彼此。

“希望有更多的日本人通過乒乓球促進中日友好關系，也希望有更多在日本的重慶人加入到我們的大家庭，凝聚鄉情，群策群力。”鄧荻說，雖然他已經取得了在日的永久居住權，但他并沒有考慮移民。他的戶籍所在地仍在重慶市渝中區，他的QQ昵稱永遠都叫“重慶人”。