The Japan men's national volleyball team is the volleyball national team of Japan.
The 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 tow silver medalist at the 1969 and 1977 World Cup. Japan has been less successful in the World League era.The team has won the Asian Championships and the Asian Games eight times each.
1964 – Bronze Medal 1968 – Silver Medal 1972 – Gold Medal 1976 – 4th place 1980 – did not compete 1984 – 8th place 1988 – 10th place 1992 – 6th place 1996 – did not qualify 2000 – did not qualify 2004 – did not qualify 2008 – 11th place (tied) 2012 – did not qualify 2016 – did not qualify1965 — 4th place1969 — 2nd place1977 — 2nd place1981 — 6th place1985 — 6th place1989 — 6th place1991 — 4th place1995 — 5th place1999 — 10th place2003 — 9th place2007 — 9th place2011 — 10th place2015 — 6th place1990 — 6th place1991 — 7th place1992 — 10th place1993 — 6th place1994 — 7th place1995 — 8th place1996 — 9th place1997 — 12th place1998 — did not participate1999 — did not participate2000 — did not participate2001 — 9th place2002 — 13th place2003 — 13th place2004 — 10th place2005 — 10th place2006 — 13th place2007 — 13th place2008 — 6th place2009 — 15th place2010 — did not qualify2011 — 15th place2012 — 15th place2013 — 18th place2014 — 19th place2015 — 13th place2016 — 24th placeWorld Grand Champions Cup
1993 — 4th place1997 — 5th place2001 — 5th place2005 — 4th place2009 — 3rd place2013 — 6th place1958 — 1st place1962 — 2nd place1966 — 1st place1970 — 1st place1974 — 1st place1978 — 2nd place1982 — 1st place1986 — 4th place1990 — 3rd place1994 — 1st place1998 — 4th place2002 — 1st place2006 — 5th place 2010 — 1st place 2014 — 2nd place1998 World Championship — 16th placeKentaro 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 , Hiroaki Kawaura, Takeshi Kitajima, Atsushi Kobayashi, Ryu Morishige, Katsutoshi Tsumagari, Makoto Yamaguchi, and Takahiro Yamamoto. Head Coach: Mikiyasu Tanaka.2003 FIVB World Cup — 9th placeYuta Abe, Nobuyoshi Hosokawa, Nobuhiro Ito, Atsushi Kobayashi, Yoichi Kato , 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 placeHiroyuki Kai, Kazuma Kishimoto, Masaji Ogino , Katsuyuki Minami, Kota Yamamura, Rio Matsunaga, Kyohei Shibata, Katsutoshi Tsumagari, Yu Koshikawa, and Kosuke Tomonaga. Head Coach: Tatsuya Ueta.2006 FIVB World League — 13th placeYuta 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 placeNobuharu 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.The following is the Japanese roster in the 2016 Olympic Qualification Tournament:
Head coach: Nambu Masashi
List from 1965 until now: Yasutaka Matsudaira (1965-1972) Tsutomu Koyama (1973-1976) Yūzo 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-)The table below shows the history of kit providers for the Japan national volleyball team.
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.
Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium and Yoyogi National Gymnasium Japan national team training and hosting venues.
Japan's matches and friendlies are currently televised by Nippon TV, GAORA and NHK.
