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The tournament was held from 14 to 29 September 2019 in Japan. [1] This was the first time that the FIVB did not distribute Olympics places since 1991 due to Japan hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics, but points for the FIVB World Rankings were given. China won their historic fifth title, following titles from 1981, 1985, 2003, and 2015. China ...
Oriental Witches (東洋の魔女, Tōyō no Majo) is the well-known nickname of Nichibo Kaizuka, a factory volleyball team of Dai Nippon Spinning Co., Ltd. (later, Nichibo, thereafter, Unitika) in Kaizuka, Osaka given by the reports of European media when they achieved 24 consecutive victories against other national teams on the expedition to Europe.
Ai Kurogo (黒後 愛, Kurogo Ai, born () 14 June 1998) is a Japanese volleyball player. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Women's volleyball. [1]She was part of the Japan women's national volleyball team.
The 2025 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship is the planned women's volleyball tournament to take place in Thailand from 22 August to 7 September 2025, involving 32 women's national teams from nations affiliated to the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB). The tournament will be broadcast all over the world.
The 2018 FIVB Women's World Championship was the eighteenth edition of the event, contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The final tournament was held in Japan from 29 September to 20 October 2018.
Skin is in! There have been no shortage of wardrobe malfunctions in 2017, and we have stars like Bella Hadid, Chrissy Teigen and Courtney Stodden to thank for that.
It is the first Olympics' volleyball medal for the Japanese since the 1984 Summer Olympics. [9] On August 13, 2012, Japan Women's Team was ranked 3rd in the world behind United States women's national volleyball team and Brazil women's national volleyball team.
Shirai became a key player in the rise of the Japanese women in the 1970s. She helped the Japanese women secure a gold medal at the 1974 FIVB World Championship in Mexico. [2] She was also key in Japan's gold medal win at the 1977 FIVB World Cup in Japan. [1] In 2000, Shirai became an inductee of the International Volleyball Hall of Fame in ...