Atsunori Inaba on Monday assumed the responsibility for winning Japan's first Olympic gold medal in baseball after being named manager of the men's national team."In 2020, we will have the opportunity to energize the nation through Olympic baseball and I'm grateful for being handed this responsibility and this role," Inaba told a press conference in Tokyo."The Olympics are a short competition for a championship. You are playing for pride and can't afford to lose. I have bitter memories of the last Olympic baseball competition in 2008, and I want to use that as motivation and deliver a champ…READ FULL ARTICLE
