Japan football players dream big as they prepare to battle Ivy League’s best

Japan and the Ivy League will battle it out on the gridiron for the second successive year Sunday when an All-Star selection from the historic east coast American conference takes on the nation’s best football players at National Stadium in Tokyo.

Japan will be hoping to avenge what was a frustrating 24-20 defeat at the hands of its NCAA opponents in the inaugural Japan U.S. Dream Bowl last January.

That’s shaping up to be a difficult task.