Team Japan is back in the promised land, the place where it received respect and glory.

But for now, "Samurai Japan" sets those things aside.

Japan's World Baseball Classic squad, which arrived in San Diego on Friday after a short training camp and a pair of exhibition games in Arizona, took the field at PETCO Park to work out on Saturday, following the three other Pool 1 nations — Mexico, South Korea and Cuba — which will play in the second round.