Japan Men's NT 2016

  • The Japanese Volleyball Association has named their 28 players for the 2016 season, which will include the World Qualifier, World League and Olympics (if they get there).


    Setters: Hideomi Fukatasu (Panasonic), Shinji Takahashi (JTEKT), Akihiro Fukatsu (JT), Masahiro Sekita (Panasonic & Chuo University)
    Outside Hitters (including Opposites, not broken out in press release): Yu Koshikawa (JT), Yuta Yoneyama (Toray), Tatsuya Fukuzawa (Maringa-Brazil), Kunihiro Shimizu (Panasonic), Masashi Kuriyama (Suntory), Daisuke Yako (JT), Naoya Shiraiwa (Toyota Gosei), Hidetomo Hoshino (Toray), Hiroaki Asano (JTEKT), Masahiro Yanagida (Suntory), Kentaro Takahashi (Tsukuba University), Tsubasa Hisahara (Tokai University), Yuki Ishikawa (Chuo University)
    Middle Blockers: Yoshifumi Suzuki (Suntory), Takaaki Tomimatsu (Toray), Ryota Denda (Toyota Gosei), Akihiro Yamauchi (Panasonic & Aichi Gakuin University), Yasunari Kodama (Tsukuba University), Taishi Onodera (Tokai University)
    Libero: Daisuke Sakai (Suntory), Koichiro Koga (Toyota Gosei), Takeshi Nagano (Panasonic), Shunsuke Watanabe (Toray)