premise: Ji was the only Chinese to post the fastest qualifying time and goes into the final ahead of Japan's Asami Kitagawa and Yoshimi Miwa, who said that the team's goal was to put an end to Chinese dominance in the swimming pool.
  China won 20 swimming titles to Japan's 11 in the last Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, four years ago, with the women taking 13 to only three for the Japanese women.
  "The aim of the Japanese team is to beat China," said Miwa.
  In men's events Japan domminated qualifying with Hidemasa Sano posting the fastest time in the 400m individual medley.
  In the 200m butterfly Japan's top two, Ryuichi Shinata and Takeshita Matsuda led qualifying ahead of Wu Peng and Chen Yin of China.
   Why does the Japanese team view their goal as putting an end to Chinese dominance?
hypothesis: post the fastest qualifying time