In my opinion, Ebata was not the best player for the third match. Her defense was very lacking and her offense was ok at best. Honestly I think a lot of the Japanese offense not succeeding is because of the setters. Hashimoto's sets to the outside die very quickly and they have a very up-down trajectory while Miyashita's sets are very tight to the net and sometimes cannot get to the ball (lazy?) so she does a lot of bump-setting. I think if the setters are trained better then Japan will play better. Risa and Saori both had very good defense in the match.
Yeah, but in statistics Ebata was one of the most helpfull players (i mean she gave the team 24 points, and that's good :))
MBs still the wek piont for the Japanese
I hpoe Nakamichi and Araki will play with NT
I hope that too, japanese team need more experienced players like Nakamichi and Erika, and what is more, I think, that Nakamichi has a similar style of play like Takeshita (and both of them are 159 cm growth :D)
Write more about you! 
He's like a national hero now. We really need our leader.
I'm sure that your english will be better, but you have to write a lot!
I prefer Granda or other songs from this album