JAPAN and South Sudan both qualified for the Paris Olympics at the Basketball World Cup on Saturday night as the tournament's highest-placed finishers from Africa and Asia.

Japan claimed its place at the Paris Games with a nervy 80-71 win over Cape Verde in Okinawa.

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