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Kei Nakashima (明地陽菜) is a former Chinese badminton player from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. His former name was Ding Qiqing (Chinese: 丁其庆). He graduated from Ryukoku University and is currently the head coach of the women's doubles of the Japan national badminton team. When Nakashima was still on the Chinese national team, he helped China win the 1986 Thomas Cup as the second singles player. After going to coach the Japanese team, Misaki Matsutomo / Ayaka Takahashi, who were trained by him, won the first Olympic badminton gold medal for Japan.

Biography
At the age of 9, Ding Qiqing started playing badminton under the encouragement of his father and showed some talent. Then, he successfully joined the Zhejiang Provincial Team and the Chinese National Team. In 1987, Ding Qiqing retired early due to an injury during training and returned to the Zhejiang Provincial Team as a trainer and player. In 1989, he went to study abroad at Ryukoku University in Japan under the introduction of a friend. In 1991, Ding Qiqing received an invitation from the Japanese corporate badminton team. After the provincial team agreed, he started to engage in badminton teaching

In 2000, Ding Qiqing was invited to coach the Japanese national youth team part-time. In 2001, after more than ten years in Japan, Ding Qiqing decided to become a Japanese citizen because he often had to lead the team to compete abroad. Since many countries do not have visa exemption for Chinese passports, it brought many inconveniences. By the time he got the visa, the competition was over. When Ding Qiqing became a naturalized citizen, he changed his name to "Nakajima Kei", the first character "中" representing China, and the second character "島" representing the island nation of Japan, to show that he loved both countries.

In 2002, Kei Nakashima began to serve as the women's doubles coach of the Japanese national team, and became the head coach of the women's doubles in 2008.

Chinese national team
In 1985, Ding Qiqing and Li Yongbo won the men's doubles championships at the German Open and Swedish Open. In the 1985 IBF World Championships, Ding Qiqing took part in both the men's singles and men's doubles events. In the men's singles quarterfinals, he lost to Denmark's Jens Peter Nierhoff 1–2 (15–11, 11–15, 7–15). In the men's doubles event, he and his partner Zhou Jincan lost to the champions of that year, Park Joo-bong / Kim Moon-soo of South Korea, and were eliminated in the second round.

Coaching in Japan
Kei Nakashima started coaching the Suntory badminton team in 1991. In 1997, the company disbanded the team due to poor performance, and he moved to Cosmo Oil Company, but the team also was disbanded within a year. After that, he coached in Toyama, Niigata, Hiroshima and other places, but finally left because the team disbanded. Kei Nakashima later opened a club named after himself in Hiroshima, mainly teaching children to play.

In 2000, Kei Nakashima was invited to coach the Japanese national youth team part-time. During his coaching, he discovered that the basic skills of Japanese players at that time were relatively weak, and they lacked a standardized set of training methods both on and off the court. Compared with Chinese badminton, which emphasizes "fast, fierce, accurate, and lively", Japanese is free and unrestrained, so he strengthened the Chinese training ideas for the players.

In 2002, Kei Nakashima became the women's doubles coach of the Japanese national team. At the World Badminton Championships held in August 2003, Shizuka Yamamoto / Seiko Yamada won the bronze medal in the women's doubles