2023 Kurowashiki All Japan Volleyball Tournament Men's is the 71st tournament of

Kurowashiki All Japan Volleyball Tournament , is a volleyball tournament in Japan. Kurowashiki () means the flag of black eagle. It opens in May every year in Osaka. It is organized by the Japan Volleyball Association and the Mainichi Newspapers. History *1952 - It started as All Japan V ...

. It will be held from 1–6 May 2023.

Qualification

A selection committee was held on February 7, 2023, and the quotas for each category and the participating teams from universities and high schools were announced. There were ten teams in V1, one team in V2, four teams in college, and one team in high school.

Tokyo Great Bears Tokyo Great Bears () is the Japanese male volleyball club in V.League (Japan), V.League Division 1, the highest volleyball league in Japan. Established in May 2022 by ''Nature Lab Co., Ltd.'' and would start competing in 2022–23 V.League Divisi ...

from V.1 and the Champion of V.2 Voreas Hokkaido announced that they would not participate in the tournament this year. As a result, the runner-up of V.2 Fujitsu Kawasaki Red Spirits will take part in the tournament. Below is the qualified teams:

Pools composition

Source:

Venues

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

Awards

Most Valuable Player *

Bartosz Kurek Bartosz Kamil Kurek (born 29 August 1988) is a Polish professional volleyball player who plays as an opposite spiker for ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle and captains the Poland national team. Kurek took part in 4 Olympic Games (London 2012, Rio 2016 ...

Fighting Spirit Award *

Dmitry Muserskiy Dmitry Aleksandrovich Muserskiy () (born 29 October 1988) is a Russian volleyball player of Ukrainians, Ukrainian descent, member of the Russia men's national volleyball team, Russian national team and Japanese club, Suntory Sunbirds. Volleyball ...

Best Newcomer Award * Ryu Yamamoto Best Libero * Soshi Fujinaka Best Six * Shuzo Yamada *

* Issei Maeda * Alain De Armas * Kenya Fujinaka *

References

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External links

Official Website
in Japanese Men's V 2023 in Japanese sport