Japan NT 2015

  • Japan Volleyball Association has just released the 30 man roster for the 2015 season


    Setters: Yuta Abe (Suntory), Shunsuke Inoue (JT), Akihiro Fukatsu (JT), Hideomi Fukatsu (Panasonic)
    Outside Hitters (includes opposites): Yuta Yoneyama (Toray), Kunihiro Shimizu (Panasonic), Masashi Kuriyama (Suntory), Daisuke Yako (JT), Shunsuke Chijiki (Sakai), Yuta Matsuoka (Sakai), Sogo Watanabe (Panasonic), Hiroaki Asano (JTEKT), Masahiro Yanagida (Suntory), Kenya Fujinaka (Senshu University), Kentaro Takahashi (Tsukuba University), Yuki Ishikawa (Chuo University/Modena), Yuki Suzuki (Akita Prefecture Onogawa High School)
    Middle Blockers: Yoshifumi Suzuki (Suntory), Takaaki Tomimatsu (Toray), Takashi Dekita (Sakai), Kentaro Hoshiya (Suntory), Yuichiro Komiya (Toray), Akihiro Yamauchi (Aichi Gakuin University), Yasunari Kodama (Tsukuba University), Issei Ohtake (Chuo University, also OH), Taishi Onodera (Tokai University)
    Liberos: Daisuke Sakai (JT), Koichiro Koga (Toyota Gosei), Takeshi Nagano (Panasonic), Taiki Tsuruda (Suntory)


    Dropped from 2014
    Shinji Takahashi
    Shohei Uchiyama
    Sho Sagawa
    Yu Koshikawa
    Tatsuya Fukuzawa
    Ryusuke Tsubakiyama
    Dai Tezuka
    Naoya Shiraiwa
    Shogo Toimoto
    Hideoki Eto
    Haku Lee
    Yamato Fushimi
    Satoshi Ide

  • i think gottsu is getting old…



    i just watched a little bit of KOR x JPN and CZE x JPN. interesting about JPN: they have one of the shortest OH in the world, asano, he's only 178 cm (5' 10) but he certainly can jump. the other OH (ishikawa, yanagida, kuriyama) are not too tall either but seem quite dynamic. it seems most of JPN's OH are very young, i have not heard of them. i miss fukuzawa and koshikawa (and gottsu). but this team seems more promising than in years past. shimizu is the veteran leading this young team, it seems.



    i see no kondoh and no usami either.



    how and why did dekita change from OPP to MB?????

  • Japs r rebuilding squad for Olympics in Tokyo 2020... that's why Nambu called 6 players from university. Also he got rid of older players in order to build up competitive team for upcoming years as they had terrible results lately. IMO this is the right path, this is the best Japan I've seen in years despite lack of centimeters :D they r playing really fast vball, field defense is great and will be next to Iran within Asia in upcoming years