Basketball
After Japan's women's national basketball team successfully clinched an Olympic berth by winning the gold medal in the FIBA Asia Women's Championship earlier this month, the men's squad will be hoping for a similar result at the FIBA Asia Championship next week.
The men aren't expected to achieve the goal as easily as the women's team did, a reality Hayabusa Japan readily acknowledges.
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