Japan Women's NT 2025

    2025 Japan Women's National Team

    Hinotori Nippon
    火の鳥NIPPON


    New Head Coach: Ferhat Akbaş


    2025 Wide Roster

    Setters Libero MBs OHs OPs

    Tamaki Matsui•

    Hitomi Shiode••
    Tsukasa Nakawaga•

    Koyomi Iwasaki•

    Nanami Seki•

    Manami Kojima•

    Haruna Kawabata••

    Miiku Iwasawa••

    Satomi Fukudome•

    Minami Nishimura•

    Rin Honda••

    Nichika Yamada•

    Airi Miyabe•

    Ayaka Araki•

    Hiroyo Yamanaka•

    Maki Yamaguchi••

    Nanami Asano•

    Asuka Hamamatsu•

    Haruyo Shimamura•

    Erina Ogawa•

    Emili Iiyama••

    Yoshino Sato•

    Miku Akimoto•

    Mayu Ishikawa•

    Ayane Kitamado••

    Hawi Okumu Oba•

    Miwako Osanai•

    Megumi Fukasawa••

    Rui Nonaka•

    Kokomi Kawamata••

    Koyumi Fukumura••

    Yukiko Wada•

    Ai Kurogo•

    Ameze Miyabe•


    • = A return from previous service

    •• = New Blood

    2025 National Team Schedule

    • Volleyball Nations League :: June 4 -- July 27
    • Women's World Championship :: August 22 -- September 7 ... (Thailand)


    U-Squad happenings:

    • 19th - U19 World Championship :: July 03–13 ... (Croatia, Serbia)
    • 2nd - Asian U16 Championship :: July 20–27 ... (Jordan)
    • 23rd - U21 World Championship :: August 7–17 ... (Indonesia)
    • --
    • FISU World University Games :: July 16–24 (Berlin)

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    It should be fine if they were to choose different captains i.e. Shimamura or Squeaky Auntie before LA and if they qualify then Mayu will undoubtedly be captain. Just so the pressure isn't all on her. There's something so nauseating about Mayu when she takes on too many responsibilities like she did at Toray. The last thing she should do is play like she can do everything the way Koga did.

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    It should be fine if they were to choose different captains i.e. Shimamura or Squeaky Auntie before LA and if they qualify then Mayu will undoubtedly be captain. Just so the pressure isn't all on her. There's something so nauseating about Mayu when she takes on too many responsibilities like she did at Toray. The last thing she should do is play like she can do everything the way Koga did.

    shimamura? do you think shimamura will still get called? doesn't seem very likely at her age

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    shimamura? do you think shimamura will still get called? doesn't seem very likely at her age

    Her age is not the problem. There are taller options now and they should stick to exclusivity. Isn't that the entire point of getting a foreign coach

    Quote from Hassan Kadem

    Shimamura or Squeaky Auntie

    That's the two that came to my mind, but I don't know if Shimamura is part of it any more. She can score as well as any other J-MB but blocking is not really her thing

    Everybody loves Kojima. She would be good for the brand and she likes to Captain the shit out of everything anyway

    It would be entertaining to watch Kojima try to get a word in edgewise if Ferhat is the HC

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    It will not be streamed but U19 and U21 will have a red-white match in March, before the NEC vs Saga game.


    https://www.jva.or.jp/topics/20250129-1/

    That's quite the bonus if you already happen to have a ticket for that match

    Japan Basketball Association announced today that Corey Gaines is the new women's head coach. Corey Gaines along with 12 other American coaches will be dispatched to the women's basketball league.


    According to Daily Sports there's "extreme pressure" for JVA to follow suit with a foreign coach for the women's nt following the decline in popularity for women's volleyball. A huge 58% dip after Paris.


    Mind you the president of JBA is bronze medalist former volleyball player, Yuko Mitsuya.


    Basketball and volleyball are 2 of the most popular sports among girls in Japan and JOC intends to keep it that way.


    https://www.daily.co.jp/genera…/03/0018610403.shtml?ph=1

    why jva would not send akimoto to train in italy just like her boy counterpart. she's not going to start playing for victorina yet. as usual jva's priorities is making sure the men's team has everything secured. they also have keihan takahashi doing the bare minimum in france.

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    Aki Momii was apparently dropped/changed by her club team in Greece due to her performance there. Marte of DOM is their new setter.

    Makes me wonder if she'll sign with a SVLeague team again next season and where.

    I can't find any social media of her club. I only saw their football team


    But it's still weird that they dropped her. So she stopped playing or will she just be 2nd

    seems the internets consider Ferhat a done deal. What's JVA waiting for?

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    seems the internets consider Ferhat a done deal. What's JVA waiting for?

    A very reliable Turkish source wrote it is done deal.