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.
Maps, Directions, and Place Reviews
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
Asian Championship
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Squads
- 1998 World Championship -- 16th place
- 2002 World Championship -- 9th place (tied)
- 2003 FIVB World Cup -- 9th place
- 2005 World Grand Champions Cup -- 4th place
- 2006 FIVB World League -- 13th place
- 2008 Summer Olympics -- 11th place
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-)
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.
Stadium
Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium 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.
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