Japan national baseball team

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The Japan national baseball team (野球日本代表, Yakyū Nippon Daihyō or Yakyū Nihon Daihyō), also known as Samurai Japan (侍ジャパン), is the national team representing Japan in international baseball competitions. It won the World Baseball Classic in 2006, 2009, and 2023, as well as the WBSC Premier12 in 2019. The team is currently ranked 1st in the world by the World Baseball Softball Confederation. Japan is the only country to have participated in every edition Summer Olympic Games since it was first officially added to as a medal sport in 1992, through the last regular tournament at the 2008 Beijing Games and its return in 2020 Tokyo Games (the team also appeared in the demonstration tournaments of 1964, 1984, and 1988). Until 2000, the team was made up exclusively of amateur players. Since the 2000 Summer Olympics, the team has included players from Nippon Professional Baseball. The team that played in and won the 2006 World Baseball Classic included Japanese players from Major League Baseball...

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