Japan men's national volleyball team
The Japan men's national volleyball team represents Japan in international volleyball competitions and friendly matches. Japan won a bronze medal at the Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games, followed by silver at Mexico 1968 and a gold at Munich 1972. The years after this have been less successful. Japan missed three successive Olympic Games before returning at Beijing 2008, where they failed to win a match. Japan then failed to qualify for the London 2012 Olympic Games and also missed Rio 2016 after finishing seventh at the World Olympic Qualification Tournament in Tokyo.
They also failed to qualify for the 2014 FIVB World Championship the first edition they had missed in 54 years. They had previously won FIVB World Championship bronze medals in 1970 and 1974. Japan 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.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 – 17th place
- 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 — 4th place
- 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
- 2018 — 12th place
- 2019 — 10th 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 — 5th place
Goodwill Games
- 1986 — 3rd place
- 1990 — did not participate
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
- :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 place
- :Yuta 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 place
- :Hiroyuki 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 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.
Team
Current squad
The following is the Japanese roster in the 2019 Men's Nations League.
Head coach: Yuichi Nakagaichi
| No. | Name | Date of birth | Height | Weight | Spike | Block | 2018–19 club |
| | 3 12 1995 | | | | |  Panasonic Panthers |
| | 1 6 1990 | | | | | Panasonic Panthers |
| | 5 1 1992 | | | | | Toray Arrows |
| | 23 7 1987 | | | | | JT Thunders |
| | 1 7 1986 | | | | | Panasonic Panthers |
| | 30 11 1993 | | | | | Panasonic Panthers |
| | 13 8 1991 | | | | | Osaka Blazers Sakai |
| | 6 7 1992 | | | | | Free agent |
| | 16 1 1992 | | | | | Toray Arrows |
| | 4 10 1989 | | | | | Toyoda Gosei Trefuerza |
| Yuji Nishida | 30 1 2000 | | | | | JTEKT Stings |
| | 20 11 1993 | | | | | Osaka Blazers Sakai |
| | 30 4 1993 | | | | | Osaka Blazers Sakai |
| | 11 12 1995 | | | | | Free agent |
| | 27 12 1990 | | | | | Toray Arrows |
| | 8 2 1995 | | | | | Toray Arrows |
| | 18 3 1995 | | | | | Panasonic Panthers |
| | 14 07 1988 | | | | | Suntory Sunbirds |
| | 6 10 1990 | | | | | JTEKT Stings |
| | 27 02 1996 | | | | | JT Thunders |
| | 11 08 1986 | | | | | Panasonic Panthers |
| | 05 11 1994 | | | | | Sakai Blazers |
| | 27 4 1996 | | | | | Sakai Blazers |
| | 28 12 1998 | | | | | Chuo University |
Coach history
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.
Stadium
and Yoyogi National Gymnasium Japan national team training and hosting venues.Media
Japan's matches and friendlies are currently televised by Nippon TV, GAORA and NHK.
