Saburo Kawabuchi told reporters on Tuesday that the Japan Basketball Association is close to securing that its ban will be lifted by FIBA this summer.
The Japan 2024 Task Force chairman spoke at a Tokyo news conference on the same day after the group's sixth meeting.
FIBA, the sport's global governing body, originally scheduled a Central Board Meeting from June 18-20 at its headquarters in Mies, Switzerland, but it was recently moved to Tokyo from Aug. 7-9. In the meeting, the host nation for the FIBA 2019 World Cup will be selected from China or the Philippines.
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