1.Organizers The Japan Table Tennis Association The international Table Tennis Federation Chiba Table Tennis Association (HOST)
2.Sponsor The Nippon Foundation
3.Date February 13th-16th,1997
4.Venue Chiba Port Arena
5.Events (1) Men's Team(M T)
(2) Women's Team(W.T)
(3) Men's Singles(M.S)
(4) Women's Singles(W.S)
6.Age Limits
Under the ITTF regulation 3.6.4.2,the players must have been born on or after June 30th,1975.
7.Quota
8.Entry
Each Association is entitled to enter the team events with 4 men and 4 women payers and a non-playing captain to each team and to enter the individual events with maximum 4 men and 4 women.
Note:For events MT and WT the Continental Federations will select their own quotas (e.g.Asian Table Tennis Union will select 4 youth men's teams and 3 youth women's teams) The selection for singles will be determined by the respective Continental Federations and National Associations
9.System of Play
(1)Team Events
The competition of Men's and Women's Team will be in 2 stages in the first stage, the team will be divided into four groups(4 men's teams and 3 women's teams in each group)to play in round robin system.In the second stage, the winners of each group will play in single knock out system.21 polnts, best of three individual matches as follows: