Mr. Shunichi Kawai, a former representative of Japan who has participated in the Olympic Games twice, will be appointed as the new chairman of the Japan Volleyball Association.
The Japan Volleyball Association held a mutual election by the directors at the extraordinary board meeting held on the 22nd, and as a result, Mr. Kawai was elected as the new chairman.
Kawai is 59 years old from Niigata prefecture.
He participated in the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984 when he was a freshman in college.
He also participated in the Seoul Olympics four years later and retired from active duty in 1990.
Since his retirement, he has been active as a commentator and talent, as well as chairman of the Japan Beach Volleyball Federation.
In January, the Japan Volleyball Association dismissed the former chairman, Kenji Shimaoka, for concealing the fact that the officer in charge created a false medical certificate for a player who missed the international beach volleyball tournament. It has become.
Mr. Kawai, who became the new chairman, said, "I would like to take on the duties of rebuilding the association with the determination of immortality. We believe that this is the axis that we should take. We would like to work with all the people concerned so that we can become a reliable competition organization and use volleyball and beach volleyball as the basis of our hearts. "