The Japan women's national volleyball team earned the bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics. But it looks to win a better-colored medal at the Rio de Janeiro Games next month.
The feat won't be achieved easily and the players and team staff know that.
But Team Japan will not alter its goal that it set for the Summer Olympics in Brazil.
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