They say the Japanese amateur baseball team isn't an elite squad, but a hastily assembled one

It seems like Japan is providing very little support for the Asian Games.
Japan was unable to assemble its best roster even among amateur baseball players. This is because the schedule overlapped with the qualifiers for the Amateur Baseball Championship, the largest tournament in amateur baseball. Furthermore, not a single player was drafted from Seino Transportation, the winner of the Intercity Baseball Tournament, another major competition. As a result, the selection focused mainly on players from Aichi Prefecture and neighboring regions.