Japan women's basketball has come up with positive results internationally in recent years, and now it is looking to legitimately put itself on the global hoop map as an elite power.
But this goal requires development of the entire country's basketball, not just the top national team. And in a country that's often at a height disadvantage in team sports, all the categories have to be on the same page in terms of what brand of ball they play as a whole.
For two days starting Monday, the players of the women's senior national, Under-24 and Under-19 teams all assembled at Tokyo's National Training Center for a training camp together for the first time.