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The Japan women's national volleyball team (Hinotori Nippon, 火の鳥NIPPON), or ''All-Japan women's volleyball team'', is currently ranked 7th in the world by FIVB. The
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is
Ferhat Akbaş Ferhat Akbaş (born April 12, 1986) is a Turkish volleyball coach and former volleyball player. He is tall. He Is the currently coach of Eczacıbaşı Dynavit and Japan women's national volleyball team. He is a graduate of business administrati ...
. One of their greatest successes was at the
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in
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, when they defeated the heavily favored
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on the way to the gold medal. Japan was qualified for the
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by winning the Women's Olympic Qualifier that was held from 8 May to 16 May in
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. In
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the team took fifth place in the overall-rankings. Finally after almost three decades of medal drought in the Olympics, Japan took home the bronze medal by defeating South Korea in the
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.


Medals


History


2012 London Olympics

Japan qualified for the
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as the best Asian team in the 2012 FIVB Women's World Olympic Qualification Tournament. In the 2012 Olympics, Japan had been placed on Group A with
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,
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, the host
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and
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. Japan finished third in the Group. In the quarter-finals, Japan faced their old Asian rival China.
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and
Yukiko Ebata Yukiko Ebata (江畑 幸子 ''Ebata Yukiko'', born November 7, 1989) is a retired Japanese volleyball player who played for the PFU BlueCats and was a member of the Japan women's national volleyball team. She was a member of Japan's bronze meda ...
each scored 33 points in this thrilling game in which
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were beaten by 3–2. It was their first win over China in 11 years as far as FIVB games are concerned. On 9 August 2012, the Japanese were outplayed by the defending champions
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in the semi-finals. On 11 August 2012, Japan beat
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3–0 in the bronze medal match. It is the first Olympics' volleyball medal for the Japanese since the
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. On August 13, 2012, Japan Women's Team was ranked 3rd in the world behind
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and
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.


2020 Tokyo Olympics

Japan was the host nation for the
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. The other teams in their group in Tokyo were
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, Serbia, Brazil, Korea and the Dominican Republic. Japan's opening match was on 25 July 2021 in Tokyo against Kenya. They beat Kenya in their first match in straight sets and lost against Serbia, Brazil, Korea and the Dominican Republic which caused them to miss the qualification for the quarterfinals.


Winner of 6 major world titles

#, & – Twice 3 Straight Major titles in 1960s and 1970s (World Women's Volleyball Championship, World Cup, Olympic Games)


Results


International


Olympic Games

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1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ...
– Gold Medal *
1968 Events January–February * January 1968, January – The I'm Backing Britain, I'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously. * January 5 – Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Cze ...
– Silver Medal *
1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, ...
– Silver Medal *
1976 Events January * January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 18 – Full diplomatic ...
– Gold Medal *
1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...
– Bronze Medal *
1988 1988 was a crucial year in the early history of the Internet—it was the year of the first well-known computer virus, the Morris worm, 1988 Internet worm. The first permanent intercontinental Internet link was made between the United State ...
– 4th place *
1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...
– 5th place *
1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
– 9th place *
2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
– 8th place *
2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
– 7th place *
2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...
– Bronze Medal *
2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
– 8th place *
2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...
– 10th place *
2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...
– 9th place


World Championship

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1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Janu ...
– Silver Medal *
1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...
– Gold Medal *
1967 Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 6 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and Army of ...
– Gold Medal *
1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 1970 Tonghai earthquake, Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli ...
– Silver Medal *
1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; ...
– Gold Medal *
1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...
– Silver Medal *
1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C. ...
– 4th place *
1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. ** Spain and Portugal en ...
– 7th place *
1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...
– 8th place *
1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...
– 7th place *
1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
– 8th place *
2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...
– 13th place *
2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...
– 6th place *
2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
– Bronze Medal *
2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...
– 7th place *
2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
– 6th place *
2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...
– 5th place *
2025 So far, the year has seen the continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudanese civil war, and the Gaza war. Internal crises in Bangladesh post-resignation v ...
– ''Qualified''


World Cup

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1973 Events January * January 1 – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 14 - The 16-0 19 ...
– Silver Medal *
1977 Events January * January 8 – 1977 Moscow bombings, Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (no ...
– Gold Medal *
1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 6 – A funeral service is held in West Germany for Nazi Grand Admiral ...
– Silver Medal *
1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a n ...
– 4th place *
1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...
– 4th place *
1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...
– 7th place *
1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...
– 6th place *
1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...
– 6th place *
2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...
– 5th place *
2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...
– 7th place *
2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
– 4th place *
2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...
– 5th place *
2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
– 5th place


World Grand Champions Cup

*
1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...
– 4th place *
1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...
– 5th place *
2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
– Bronze Medal *
2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...
– 5th place *
2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
– 4th place *
2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...
– Bronze Medal *
2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...
– 5th place


FIVB World Grand Prix

*
1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...
– 6th place *
1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...
– 4th place *
1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...
– 7th place *
1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
– 8th place *
1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...
– 4th place *
1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
– 7th place *
1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...
– 7th place *
2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...
– 8th place *
2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
– 6th place *
2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...
– 5th place *
2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...
– 9th place *
2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
– 9th place *
2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...
– 5th place *
2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...
– 6th place *
2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...
– 9th place *
2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
– 6th place *
2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
– 6th place *
2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
– 5th place *
2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
– 5th place *
2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...
– 9th place *
2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...
– 4th place *
2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...
– Silver Medal *
2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...
– 6th place *
2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
– 9th place *
2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...
– 7th place


FIVB Nations League

*
2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
– 10th place *
2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
– 9th place *
2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...
– 4th place *
2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...
– 7th place *
2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...
– 7th place *
2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...
– Silver Medal


Montreux Volley Masters

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1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...
– Bronze Medal *
2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
– Bronze Medal *
2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...
– 4th place *
2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
– 7th place *
2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
– 7th place *
2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
– Gold Medal *
2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...
– 5th place *
2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...
– 6th place *
2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...
– Silver Medal *
2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
– Silver Medal


Continental


Asian Games

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1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...
– Gold Medal *
1966 Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo i ...
– Gold Medal *
1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 1970 Tonghai earthquake, Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli ...
– Gold Medal *
1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; ...
– Gold Medal *
1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...
– Gold Medal *
1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C. ...
– Silver Medal *
1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. ** Spain and Portugal en ...
– Silver Medal *
1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...
– Bronze Medal *
1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...
– Bronze Medal *
1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
– Bronze Medal *
2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...
– Bronze Medal *
2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...
– Silver Medal *
2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
– 6th place *
2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...
– 4th place *
2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
– 4th place *
2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...
– Silver Medal


Asian Championship

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1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
– Gold Medal *
1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
– Silver Medal *
1983 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the ...
– Gold Medal *
1987 Events January * January 1 – Bolivia reintroduces the Boliviano currency. * January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Military of Chad, Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade. * January 3 – Afghan leader ...
– Silver Medal *
1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...
– Bronze Medal *
1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...
– Silver Medal *
1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...
– Silver Medal *
1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...
– Bronze Medal *
1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...
– Bronze Medal *
1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...
– Bronze Medal *
2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
– 4th place *
2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...
– Silver Medal *
2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...
– Bronze Medal *
2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...
– Gold Medal *
2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
– Bronze Medal *
2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
– Silver Medal *
2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...
– Silver Medal *
2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...
– 6th place *
2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...
– Gold Medal *
2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
– Gold Medal *
2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...
– ''Cancelled due to
COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...
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2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...
– Bronze Medal


Asian Cup

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2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
— 4th place *
2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
— 4th place *
2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...
— 5th place *
2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...
— 4th place *
2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
— 4th place *
2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
— Silver Medal *
2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...
— Gold Medal


Head-to-head record

This page shows Japan women's national volleyball team's Head-to-head record at the
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Team


Current squad

The following is the Japan roster in the
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1996 Olympic Games The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...
— 9th place (tied) *: Kaiyo Hoshini, Aki Nagatomi, Kazumi Nakamura,
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, and Tomoko Yoshihara. Head coach: Kuniaki Yoshida. * 1999 FIVB World Cup — 6th place *: Naomi Eto, Megumi Itabashi,
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Megumi Kurihara Megumi Kurihara (栗原恵 ''Kurihara Megumi'', born July 31, 1984) is a Japanese volleyball former player who played for JT Marvelous. She also played for the All-Japan women's volleyball team and participated at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olymp ...
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Ikumi Narita is a Japanese former volleyball player. Her maiden name is . Narita competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where she finished in fifth place with the Japan women's national team. She played as a wing-spiker. She was named ''B ...
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, Sachiko Sugiyama, Ai Otomo,
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, Sachiko Sugiyama, Ai Otomo,
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— 5th place *: Erika Araki, Makiko Horai, Megumi Itabashi, Ayako Onuma, Ai Otomo, Yuka Sakurai, Miki Shimada, Kaoru Sugayama, Sachiko Sugiyama, Yoshie Takeshita,
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, Akiko Ino, and
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, Yoshie Takeshita,
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, Kaori Inoue, Ai Otomo,
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, Mai Yamaguchi, Risa Shinnabe,
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, Maiko Kano, and
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Miyu Nagaoka is a Japanese people, Japanese volleyball player in the position of opposite spiker. She was a member of Japan women's national volleyball team and participated at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Currently she plays with Hisamitsu Springs. Career Naga ...
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Hitomi Nakamichi is a former Japanese volleyball player who played for Toray Arrows. She was served as captain of the team since 2013. She was also part of the Japanese team that won the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympic ...
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Arisa Takada Arisa Takada (高田ありさ ''Takada Arisa'', born February 17, 1987) is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for Toray Arrows. Clubs * Kyushubunka high school * Toray Arrows (2005-) Awards Team *2007 Domestic Sports Festival (Vol ...
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Arisa Satō Arisa Satō (佐藤あり紗, Satō Arisa, born 18 July 1989) is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for Hitachi Rivale is a women's volleyball team based in Hitachinaka city, Ibaraki, Japan Japan is an island country in East As ...
, Mai Yamaguchi, Mizuho Ishida,
Yuki Ishii is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for Hisamitsu Springs. She also played for the All-Japan women's volleyball team. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Women's volleyball. Career Ishii played for the All-Japan team for th ...
, Risa Shinnabe,
Yukiko Ebata Yukiko Ebata (江畑 幸子 ''Ebata Yukiko'', born November 7, 1989) is a retired Japanese volleyball player who played for the PFU BlueCats and was a member of the Japan women's national volleyball team. She was a member of Japan's bronze meda ...
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Saori Sakoda Saori Sakoda (迫田さおり ''Sakoda Saori'', born December 18, 1987) was a Japanese volleyball player who played for Toray Arrows. She also played for the All-Japan women's volleyball team. Clubs * Kagoshima-nishi High School * Toray ...
, Kana Ōno, Sayaka Tsutsui, and
Haruka Miyashita is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for the Okayama Seagulls. She also plays for the All-Japan women's volleyball team. Career Miyashita was once a wing-spiker, but was converted to setter by Akiyoshi Kawamoto, who was on the senior sta ...
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Masayoshi Manabe Masayoshi Manabe (真鍋 政義 ''Manabe Masayoshi'', born 21 August 1963) is a Japanese volleyball coach and former player, who played as a setter for the Japanese men's national volleyball team in the 1980s and 1990s. Manabe played at the 198 ...
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2016 Olympic Games The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...
— 5th place *:
Saori Kimura is a retired Japanese volleyball player who played for Toray Arrows. She also played for the All-Japan women's volleyball team and was a captain of the team. She was a participant at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 2008 Summer Olympics, 2012 Summe ...
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Miyu Nagaoka is a Japanese people, Japanese volleyball player in the position of opposite spiker. She was a member of Japan women's national volleyball team and participated at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Currently she plays with Hisamitsu Springs. Career Naga ...
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Arisa Satō Arisa Satō (佐藤あり紗, Satō Arisa, born 18 July 1989) is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for Hitachi Rivale is a women's volleyball team based in Hitachinaka city, Ibaraki, Japan Japan is an island country in East As ...
, Mai Yamaguchi,
Yuki Ishii is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for Hisamitsu Springs. She also played for the All-Japan women's volleyball team. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Women's volleyball. Career Ishii played for the All-Japan team for th ...
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Saori Sakoda Saori Sakoda (迫田さおり ''Sakoda Saori'', born December 18, 1987) was a Japanese volleyball player who played for Toray Arrows. She also played for the All-Japan women's volleyball team. Clubs * Kagoshima-nishi High School * Toray ...
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Haruka Miyashita is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for the Okayama Seagulls. She also plays for the All-Japan women's volleyball team. Career Miyashita was once a wing-spiker, but was converted to setter by Akiyoshi Kawamoto, who was on the senior sta ...
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Kanami Tashiro is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for Toray Arrows. She is also part of the Japan women's national volleyball team and played at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Women's volleyball. Career ...
, Erika Araki, Yurie Nabeya, Haruyo Shimamura and
Kotoki Zayasu is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for RC Cannes. She played for the Japan national team during the 2016 Summer Olympics. Career Kotoki became a volleyball player at 9 years old. While in high school Kotoki served as captain of the te ...
, Head coach:
Masayoshi Manabe Masayoshi Manabe (真鍋 政義 ''Manabe Masayoshi'', born 21 August 1963) is a Japanese volleyball coach and former player, who played as a setter for the Japanese men's national volleyball team in the 1980s and 1990s. Manabe played at the 198 ...
. * 2018 World Championship — 6th Place *:
Nana Iwasaka Nana Iwasaka (岩坂 名奈, ''Iwasaka Nana''; born July 3, 1990) is a retired Japanese volleyball player who plays for Hisamitsu Springs. Life She was born in 1990 in Fukuoka City. Iwasaka was part of the Japanese national team that won the 201 ...
( c), Koyomi Tominaga,
Kanami Tashiro is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for Toray Arrows. She is also part of the Japan women's national volleyball team and played at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Women's volleyball. Career ...
, Erika Araki,
Mai Okumura Mai Okumura (奥村麻依, born October 31, 1990) is a Japanese volleyball player. She plays for the Japan women's national volleyball team. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Women's volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in whi ...
, Haruyo Shimamura, Risa Shinnabe,
Yuki Ishii is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for Hisamitsu Springs. She also played for the All-Japan women's volleyball team. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Women's volleyball. Career Ishii played for the All-Japan team for th ...
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Sarina Koga or is a Japanese people, Japanese retired volleyball player who used to be captain (volleyball), captain of the Japan women's national volleyball team. Koga won the bronze medal at the 2013 FIVB Women's U23 Volleyball World Championship, 2013 ...
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Ai Kurogo is a Japanese volleyball player. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Women's volleyball. She was part of the Japan women's national volleyball team. She participated at the 2017 FIVB U20 Women's Volleyball World Championship, 2018 As ...
, Mami Uchiseto,
Miyu Nagaoka is a Japanese people, Japanese volleyball player in the position of opposite spiker. She was a member of Japan women's national volleyball team and participated at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Currently she plays with Hisamitsu Springs. Career Naga ...
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Kotoe Inoue Kotoe Inoue (井上琴絵 ''Inoue Kotoe'', born February 15, 1990) is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for LOVB Austin. Career While attending high school, her volleyball team won in the Domestic Sports Festival. Inoue won the bronze m ...
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Mako Kobata Mako Kobata (born August 15, 1992) is a Japanese professional volleyball player. She plays the libero position and is known for her fast reactions and strong defense. Kobata has played for the Japan women's national volleyball team and particip ...
, Head coach:
Kumi Nakada is a former professional volleyball player and former coach of Hisamitsu Springs. She was a setter who led Japan to the bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles at 18 years of age. Coaching In October 2016, Nakada became the ...
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2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...
— 10th Place *: Erika Araki ( c),
Ai Kurogo is a Japanese volleyball player. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Women's volleyball. She was part of the Japan women's national volleyball team. She participated at the 2017 FIVB U20 Women's Volleyball World Championship, 2018 As ...
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Sarina Koga or is a Japanese people, Japanese retired volleyball player who used to be captain (volleyball), captain of the Japan women's national volleyball team. Koga won the bronze medal at the 2013 FIVB Women's U23 Volleyball World Championship, 2013 ...
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Kanami Tashiro is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for Toray Arrows. She is also part of the Japan women's national volleyball team and played at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Women's volleyball. Career ...
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Mayu Ishikawa is a Japanese people, Japanese professional volleyball player. She's a member of the Japan women's national volleyball team, Japan Women's National Volleyball Team, as one of its outside hitters. In 2025, she is assigned as the national team's ...
, Haruyo Shimamura,
Mako Kobata Mako Kobata (born August 15, 1992) is a Japanese professional volleyball player. She plays the libero position and is known for her fast reactions and strong defense. Kobata has played for the Japan women's national volleyball team and particip ...
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Yuki Ishii is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for Hisamitsu Springs. She also played for the All-Japan women's volleyball team. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Women's volleyball. Career Ishii played for the All-Japan team for th ...
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Mai Okumura Mai Okumura (奥村麻依, born October 31, 1990) is a Japanese volleyball player. She plays for the Japan women's national volleyball team. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Women's volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in whi ...
, Aki Momii, Kotona Hayashi and Nichika Yamada, Head coach:
Kumi Nakada is a former professional volleyball player and former coach of Hisamitsu Springs. She was a setter who led Japan to the bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles at 18 years of age. Coaching In October 2016, Nakada became the ...
* 2022 World Championship — 5th Place *:
Sarina Koga or is a Japanese people, Japanese retired volleyball player who used to be captain (volleyball), captain of the Japan women's national volleyball team. Koga won the bronze medal at the 2013 FIVB Women's U23 Volleyball World Championship, 2013 ...
( c), Mami Uchiseto,
Mayu Ishikawa is a Japanese people, Japanese professional volleyball player. She's a member of the Japan women's national volleyball team, Japan Women's National Volleyball Team, as one of its outside hitters. In 2025, she is assigned as the national team's ...
, Haruyo Shimamura,
Arisa Inoue is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for the Hisamitsu Springs. She also plays for the Japan women's national volleyball team. Inoue won a silver medal with the Japan U20 national team at the 2013 FIVB Women's Junior World Championship. ...
, Aki Momii, Kotona Hayashi, Nichika Yamada, Satomi Fukudome, Mami Yokota, Airi Miyabe,
Nanami Seki Nanami Seki (関 菜々巳, ''Seki Nanami'', born 12 June 1999) is a Japanese professional volleyball player in the setter position. She has been a part of the Japan women's national volleyball team since 2019. Career Nanami was born in Funa ...
, Ameze Miyabe and Yoshino Sato, Head coach:
Masayoshi Manabe Masayoshi Manabe (真鍋 政義 ''Manabe Masayoshi'', born 21 August 1963) is a Japanese volleyball coach and former player, who played as a setter for the Japanese men's national volleyball team in the 1980s and 1990s. Manabe played at the 198 ...
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2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. P ...
— 9th Place *:
Sarina Koga or is a Japanese people, Japanese retired volleyball player who used to be captain (volleyball), captain of the Japan women's national volleyball team. Koga won the bronze medal at the 2013 FIVB Women's U23 Volleyball World Championship, 2013 ...
( c), Koyomi Iwasaki, Kotona Hayashi,
Mayu Ishikawa is a Japanese people, Japanese professional volleyball player. She's a member of the Japan women's national volleyball team, Japan Women's National Volleyball Team, as one of its outside hitters. In 2025, she is assigned as the national team's ...
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Nanami Seki Nanami Seki (関 菜々巳, ''Seki Nanami'', born 12 June 1999) is a Japanese professional volleyball player in the setter position. She has been a part of the Japan women's national volleyball team since 2019. Career Nanami was born in Funa ...
, Manami Kojima,
Arisa Inoue is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for the Hisamitsu Springs. She also plays for the Japan women's national volleyball team. Inoue won a silver medal with the Japan U20 national team at the 2013 FIVB Women's Junior World Championship. ...
, Nichika Yamada, Satomi Fukudome, Airi Miyabe, Ayaka Araki and Yukiko Wada, Head coach:
Masayoshi Manabe Masayoshi Manabe (真鍋 政義 ''Manabe Masayoshi'', born 21 August 1963) is a Japanese volleyball coach and former player, who played as a setter for the Japanese men's national volleyball team in the 1980s and 1990s. Manabe played at the 198 ...


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Tadayoshi Yokota Tadayoshi Yokota (横田 忠義 ''Yokota Tadayoshi'', 26 September 1947 – 9 May 2023) was a Japanese volleyball player, who was a member of the Japan Men's National Team that won the gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and the si ...
* Kuniaki Yoshida * Nobushika Kuzuwa * Masahiro Yoshikawa *
Shoichi Yanagimoto is a Japanese volleyball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics The 1976 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Montreal 1976 (), were an inter ...
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Masayoshi Manabe Masayoshi Manabe (真鍋 政義 ''Manabe Masayoshi'', born 21 August 1963) is a Japanese volleyball coach and former player, who played as a setter for the Japanese men's national volleyball team in the 1980s and 1990s. Manabe played at the 198 ...
(2008–2016; 2021–2024) *
Kumi Nakada is a former professional volleyball player and former coach of Hisamitsu Springs. She was a setter who led Japan to the bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles at 18 years of age. Coaching In October 2016, Nakada became the ...
(2016–2021) *
Ferhat Akbaş Ferhat Akbaş (born April 12, 1986) is a Turkish volleyball coach and former volleyball player. He is tall. He Is the currently coach of Eczacıbaşı Dynavit and Japan women's national volleyball team. He is a graduate of business administrati ...
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See also

* Japan women's national under-23 volleyball team *
Japan women's national under-20 volleyball team The Japan women's national under-20 volleyball team represents Japan in women's under-20 volleyball events, it is controlled and managed by the Japanese Volleyball Association that is a member of Asian volleyball body Asian Volleyball Confederati ...
* Japan women's national under-18 volleyball team *'' Attack No. 1'' *
Japan men's national volleyball team The Japan men's national volleyball team (), also referred to as Ryujin Nippon (Japanese: 龍神ニッポン; Literal translation, Lit. trans: ''Dragon God of Japan'') or simply Nippon, represents Japan in international volleyball competitions an ...


References


External links

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FIVB profileVideo of the moments of victory and of awarding gold medal in 1964 Tokyo Olympics
{{National sports teams of Japan Volleyball women Volleyball in Japan National women's volleyball teams FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship–winning countries Women's volleyball teams in Japan