The year 2023 marked a big turning point for Japan's previously floundering men's national volleyball, basketball and handball teams, which all ended decades of underachievement by executing long-term plans.Excluding its host-nation qualification for the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, Japan will send men's teams for all three sports to the same Olympics next summer in Paris for the first time since the 1976 Montreal Games.Japan reached the podium in a major international volleyball tournament for the first time in 46 years in July by beating world champion Italy for a bronze at the Nations League,…READ FULL ARTICLE