Some of the announcements on players leaving the team or retiring:
OSAKA MARVELOUS
- Lise Van Hecke
- Samantha Francis
- Alyssa Solomon
- Ameze Miyabe
- Erina Ogawa
- Nana Sakakibara - retiring
- Fuka Inoue
In addition to this, they also announced Mikoto Shima leaving the team. So only Hayashi, Tanaka and Fukumura are left among their OH and OPPs.
Saitama and Denso both lost their matches so Saitama will qualify.
Denso Airybees Players who are leaving/retiring at the end of the season:
Sataima Ageo Medics players who are leaving after the season:
I can see Fuka Inoue transferring to Saitama from Osaka with Miiku leaving. Interesting to see where Miiku is heading.
This year in V.League, yes. But that's not the endgame. Big leap to the NT with different players playing against monsters, but I'm seeing some leadership emerge in her
Beyond the basic digging and receiving skills, she's like Iwasawa to me. Has that ability to read the court and roam around to the right place at the right time. She's Fukudome-like in her ability to deliver a good pass from a crazy dig
It's one of those situations, though, where she's on a low-level team maybe no one is watching
Which reminds me... we were high on Fukumoto as well from Kurobe before but she fell off the radar after transferring to Denso and being a serving sub there. 
NEC Red Rockets already confirmed Yoshino Sato transferring to Milano and Yukiko Wada to Busto. Players leaving the team:
Some of the announcements on players leaving the team or retiring:
TORAY ARROWS
OSAKA MARVELOUS
ARANMARE YAMAGATA
PFU is such an interesting team this season! They only have Thatdao as a foreign player, but they are currently 4th in the standings and the only team to beat the current top 3 (NEC, Saga, Osaka MV) 
Junior NT key player and High School MVP Yuzuki Baba (180cm, OH at Junior NT) will enroll at Tsukuba University instead of going straight to the SVLeague. Baba was a starting OH of Japan at U16 Asian, U18 Asian and U19 WCH.
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/artic…b0ef9a17ec5e6979f292d2b89
The other Junior NT key player Rion Chuganji still has one more year of high school.
For U-squad, we will have U17 World Championship, U18 Asian Championship and U20 Asian Championship this year.
Main tournaments — Asian Championship (winner will qualify directly to LA Olympics) and VNL
For other tournaments — Japan will host the Asian Games this year.
Okayama Seagulls already announced the signing of Vietnamese Middle Blocker Tran Thi Bich Thuy
Shimamura is such a good addition to the team
Gunma vs PFU is going 5! 
Nasya Dimitrova is such a good addition to Gunma! so good!
I just remembered Queenseis and Gunma are having their first matches today. Watching this to see how they are using their foreign players.
Queenseis is using Cuttino and Scholzel. They can't use Kuznetsova with them given foreign player rules. Gunma can use all 3 foreign players because the 3rd one is 4T 
Airi Miyabe with 30 points at her 1st start at Opposite this season.
Saw Hayashi standing on the sideline. Good to see her face, I missed her this summer
is she not playing bc of tactics though or just not fit (enough)?
She played yesterday. They are probably just resting her / giving time to their other OHs.
Wakaizumi is good!
Sato is now signed to VPA. She will most likely sign to an A1 team after this season
Nice to see this! She already mentioned on interviews that she's targeting to play overseas next season. She said the goal is to have overseas experience before LA Olympics.