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The No. 7 ranked Japanese squad got behind early for the second straight game and couldn’t recover as Italy took a 3-2 decision that essentially eliminated Japan from the knockout stages.googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1499653692894-0'); });

The loss was a bitter pill to swallow for Japan, which came into these Games following a sixth-place showing at the Olympics four years ago and had aspirations of taking the next step toward the podium in Milan.

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