Editing Sports in Japan (section)

===Volleyball===
{{See also|Japanese Volleyball League}}
[[File:Volleyball WC 2006 Japan flag.jpg|thumb|Japan national volleyball team fans in World Championship 2010]]
Volleyball is popular in Japan, where the sport enjoys much coverage by national broadcasters. The sport is played by many junior and senior high school students.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Johnson|first=Christopher|date=2010-11-13|title=In Japan, Volleyball Leaps to a Nationwide Passion|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/sports/14volleyball.html|access-date=2021-06-12|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The top regional teams play in the [[Japanese Volleyball League]]. Since 2006, Japan is the permanent host of the [[FIVB Volleyball World Cup (disambiguation)|FIVB Volleyball World Cups]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=The weight of Japan on the women's volleyball team|url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/en/news/the-weight-of-japan-on-the-womens-volleyball-team|access-date=2021-06-12|website=Tokyo 2020|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-08-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815215324/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/en/news/the-weight-of-japan-on-the-womens-volleyball-team|url-status=dead}}</ref>

At the 1964 Olympic Games on home soil, Japan became the first country in history [[Volleyball at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament|to win Olympic gold in women's volleyball]]. The [[Japan women's national volleyball team|women's national team]] has since achieved Olympic podium placements multiple times, including an additional gold medal in 1976. The women's team now ranks seventh in the world.<ref name=":0" /> The [[Japan men's national volleyball team|men's national team]] has been less successful, having missed the two most recent Olympic games, but have qualified for the upcoming [[Tokyo 2020]] Olympics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Japan Men's Volleyball team: Ready to take on Tokyo 2020 and beyond|url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/en/news/japan-mens-volleyball-team-ready-to-take-on-tokyo-2020-and-beyond|access-date=2021-06-12|website=Tokyo 2020|language=en-US}}{{Dead link|date=June 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

''[[Haikyu!!]],'' a manga and anime series about high school volleyball, has gained a significant amount of popularity all around the world.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Cardine|first=Kyle|date=14 April 2020|title=Crunchyroll's Most Popular Anime of Winter 2020 By Country|url=https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-feature/2020/04/14/crunchyrolls-most-popular-anime-of-winter-2020-by-country}}</ref>

Japan featured a women's national team in [[beach volleyball]] that competed at the [[2018–2020 AVC Beach Volleyball Continental Cup]].<ref>{{cite news |title= Continental Cup Finals start in Africa|url=https://www.fivb.com/en/about/news/continental-cup-finals-start-in-africa?id=94414 |accessdate=7 August 2021 |work=[[FIVB]] |date=22 June 2021}}</ref>