Reigning olympic champions China won the third place match, defeating Netherlands in straight sets.

[1] The tournament will take place in six cities: Hamamatsu, Kobe, Nagoya, Osaka, Sapporo, and Yokohama.

The qualification process was a series of tournaments organised by the five FIVB confederations to decide 22 of the 24 teams which would play in the final tournament, with Japan qualifying automatically as hosts and United States also qualifying automatically as the defending champions.

[citation needed] The five regional governing bodies were allocated the remaining 22 spots; CAVB (Africa) was granted two, AVC (Asia and Oceania) four, NORCECA (North America) six, CSV (South America) two, and CEV (Europe) eight spots.

Other teams returning after absences of the last tournament(s) include Kenya and South Korea, who both missed the 2014 edition.

Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the Serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 7 August 2017.

The statistics include 6 volleyball skills; serve, reception, set, spike, block, and dig.

According to Japan leading news paper 朝日新聞, the two Japanese local business partner were reported to lost money on hosting the competition.

TBS is expected to lose nearly 1 billion yen due to bad sales at commercial advertisements.