WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Japan’s new-look professional rugby competition will launch next month with bold ambitions to win not only a domestic but a global audience, to attract the world’s best ...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Scrumhalf Fumi Tanaka has announced his retirement from international rugby at the age of 39, ending a career which spanned one of the most successful eras in Japanese ...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The Japan Rugby Football Union is challenging a decision by Asia Rugby to temporarily suspend JRFU executive director Kensuke Iwabuchi over a possible Code of Conduct ...
After Australia A beat a Japan XV 71-7 earlier this month, many observers would have written off Japan’s chances in the main test match at Tokyo’s National Stadium on Oct 25. Australia felt ...
Harrison Brewer has played senior rugby alongside - and against - some of the greatest players the world has ever seen. He can namecheck the three Barrett brothers who played against Ireland last ...