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Yamanashi Queenbees

basketball team in Kai, Yamanashi

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ11469593 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Yamanashi Queenbees (Japanese: 山梨クィーンビーズ; formerly the Kofu Queenbees, 甲府クィーンビーズ) are a professional basketball team based in Kai, Yamanashi, playing in the Women's Japan Basketball League. From 2024 season they are playing in the lower “W-League Future", after the women's league is split into two divisions.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Yamanashi Queenbees” is basketball team in Kai, Yamanashi. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Yamanashi, Queenbees and basketball, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2024—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2009. For this dossier, Yamanashi, Queenbees and basketball is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11469593. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from “Yamanashi Queenbees” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.