Japan men's national volleyball team

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The Japan men's national volleyball team has won three Olympic medals, including a gold medal in Munich 1972 and won a bronze medal at the Tokyo 1964, silver medalist at Mexico 1968. Japan also, the team was third at the 1970 and 1974 World Championships, and silver medalists at the 1969 and 1977 World Cup. Japan has been less successful in the World League era.The team has won the Asian Championships nine times and the Asian Games eight times.

Video Japan men's national volleyball team

Results

Olympic Games

• 1964 - Bronze Medal
• 1968 - Silver Medal
• 1972 - Gold Medal
• 1976 - 4th place
• 1980 - Did not participate due to US-led boycott
• 1984 - 7th place
• 1988 - 10th place
• 1992 - 6th place
• 1996 - Did not qualify
• 2000 - Did not qualify
• 2004 - Did not qualify
• 2008 - 11th place
• 2012 - Did not qualify
• 2016 - Did not qualify
• 2020 - Qualified

World Championship

• 1949 - Did not participate
• 1952 - Did not participate
• 1956 - Did not participate
• 1960 - 8th place
• 1962 - 5th place
• 1966 - 5th place
• 1970 - 3rd place
• 1974 - 3rd place
• 1978 - 11th place
• 1982 - 4th place
• 1986 - 10th place
• 1990 - 11th place
• 1994 - 9th place
• 1998 - 15th place
• 2002 - 9th place
• 2006 - 8th place
• 2010 - 13th place
• 2014 - Did not qualify
• 2018 - Qualified

World Cup

• 1965 -- 4th place
• 1969 -- 2nd place
• 1977 -- 2nd place
• 1981 -- 6th place
• 1985 -- 6th place
• 1989 -- 6th place
• 1991 -- 4th place
• 1995 -- 5th place
• 1999 -- 10th place
• 2003 -- 9th place
• 2007 -- 9th place
• 2011 -- 10th place
• 2015 -- 6th place
• 2019 -- TBA

World Grand Champions Cup

• 1993 -- 4th place
• 1997 -- 5th place
• 2001 -- 5th place
• 2005 -- 4th place
• 2009 -- 3rd place
• 2013 -- 6th place
• 2017 -- 6th place

World League

• 1990 -- 6th place
• 1991 -- 7th place
• 1992 -- 10th place
• 1993 -- 6th place
• 1994 -- 7th place
• 1995 -- 8th place
• 1996 -- 9th place
• 1997 -- 12th place
• 1998 -- did not participate
• 1999 -- did not participate
• 2000 -- did not participate
• 2001 -- 9th place
• 2002 -- 13th place
• 2003 -- 13th place
• 2004 -- 10th place
• 2005 -- 10th place
• 2006 -- 13th place
• 2007 -- 13th place
• 2008 -- 6th place
• 2009 -- 15th place
• 2010 -- did not qualify
• 2011 -- 15th place
• 2012 -- 15th place
• 2013 -- 18th place
• 2014 -- 19th place
• 2015 -- 13th place
• 2016 -- 24th place
• 2017 -- 14th place

Asian Games

• 1958 -- 1st place
• 1962 -- 2nd place
• 1966 -- 1st place
• 1970 -- 1st place
• 1974 -- 1st place
• 1978 -- 2nd place
• 1982 -- 1st place
• 1986 -- 4th place
• 1990 -- 3rd place
• 1994 -- 1st place
• 1998 -- 4th place
• 2002 -- 3rd place
• 2006 -- 5th place
• 2010 -- 1st place
• 2014 -- 2nd place
• 2018 -- TBA

Asian Championship

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Squads

• 1998 World Championship -- 16th place

  Kentaro Asahi, Nobutaka Hirano, Yoichi Kato, Masayoshi Manabe, Katsuyuki Minami, Norihiko Miyazaki, Yuichi Nakagaichi, Takashi Narita, Koichi Nishimura, Masaji Ogino, Hideyuki Otake, and Minoru Takeuchi. Head Coach: Futoshi Teramawari.

• 2002 World Championship -- 9th place (tied)

  Yuta Abe, Nobuyoshi Hosokawa, Nobuhiro Ito, Hiroyuki Kai, Yoichi Kato (c), Hiroaki Kawaura, Takeshi Kitajima, Atsushi Kobayashi, Ryu Morishige, Katsutoshi Tsumagari, Makoto Yamaguchi, and Takahiro Yamamoto. Head Coach: Mikiyasu Tanaka.

• 2003 FIVB World Cup -- 9th place

  Yuta Abe, Nobuyoshi Hosokawa, Nobuhiro Ito, Atsushi Kobayashi, Yoichi Kato (c), Takehiro Kihara, Akira Koshiya, Ryu Morishige, Kenji Onoue, Katsutoshi Tsumagari, Takahiro Yamamoto, and Daisuke Usami. Head Coach: Mikiyasu Tanaka.

• 2005 World Grand Champions Cup -- 4th place

  Hiroyuki Kai, Kazuma Kishimoto, Masaji Ogino (c), Katsuyuki Minami, Kota Yamamura, Rio Matsunaga, Kyohei Shibata, Katsutoshi Tsumagari, Yu Koshikawa, and Kosuke Tomonaga. Head Coach: Tatsuya Ueta.

• 2006 FIVB World League -- 13th place

  Yuta Abe, Shinya Chiba, Yusuke Ishijima, Yu Koshikawa, Keisuke Kurihara, Akira Masuno, Yoshihiko Matsumoto, Ryuji Naohiro, Masaji Ogino, Kenji Onoue, Nobuharu Saito, Yoshifumi Suzuki, Yohei Takasugi, Osamu Tanabe, Kosuke Tomonaga, Katsutoshi Tsumagari, Takahiro Yamamoto, and Kota Yamamura. Head Coach: Tatsuya Ueta.

• 2008 Summer Olympics -- 11th place

  Nobuharu Saito, Daisuke Usami, Takahiro Yamamoto, Masaji Ogino, Yoshihiko Matsumoto, Kota Yamamura, Kunihiro Shimizu, Tatsuya Fukuzawa, Katsutoshi Tsumagari, Yusuke Ishijima, Yu Koshikawa, and Kosuke Tomonaga. Head Coach: Tatsuya Ueta.

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Team

Current squad

The following is the Japanese roster in the 2017 World League.

Head coach: Yuichi Nakagaichi

Coach history

• List from 1965 until now:
• Yasutaka Matsudaira (1965-1972)
• Tsutomu Koyama (1973-1976)
• Y?zo Nakamura (1977-1980)
• Naohiro Ikeda (1980-1984)
• Masaru Saito (1984-1986)
• Tsutomu Koyama (1986-1988)
• Masayuki Minami (1989-1990)
• Seiji Oko (1991-1995)
• Shinichiro Tsujiai (1996-1997)
• Futoshi Teramawari (1997-2000)
• Mikiyasu Tanaka (2001-2004)
• Tatsuya Ueta (2005-2013)
• Gary Sato (2013-2014)
• Masashi Nambu (2014-2016)
• Yuichi Nakagaichi (2017-)

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Kit providers

The table below shows the history of kit providers for the Japan national volleyball team.

Sponsorship

Primary sponsors include: main sponsors like Shiseido other sponsors: Japanet, Molten, All Nippon Airways, Suntory, JTEKT, Nisshin Steel, Nippon Life, Marudai, Mizuno, Meiji Seika, Descente, Mikasa and Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical.

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Stadium

Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium and Yoyogi National Gymnasium Japan national team training and hosting venues.

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Media

Japan's matches and friendlies are currently televised by Nippon TV, GAORA and NHK.

See also

• Volleyball
• Haiky?!!
• Japan women's national volleyball team

References

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