Since his appointment two years ago, Kenji Hasegawa has firmly developed the Japan men's national team.
But with the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo on the horizon, for which the team has not been guaranteed a spot, the Japan Basketball Association made a daring decision.
The nation's basketball governing body announced on Thursday that it had parted ways with Hasegawa at the end of November.
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