As anticipated, Atsunori Inaba will continue to lead Samurai Japan at the Tokyo Olympics, which have been postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
His goal, of course, will be unchanged: win nothing but the gold medal.
“I told him that I would take it,” Inaba said during an online news conference after Nippon Professional Baseball secretary general Atsushi Ihara officially delivered the formal request to him in Sapporo on Friday. “And that we shall proceed to discuss our schedule, training camp and scouting visit plans toward next year.”