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 ...

Since Japan hosted the 2019 Rugby World Cup, the JRFU has launched the Japan Rugby 2050 initiative to raise the global appeal of Japanese rugby. One aspect of it is a robust, cloud-based approach ...

WELLINGTON--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 players and ...

The 2019 Rugby World Cup is taking place across 12 venues as Japan becomes the first Asian country to host the competition. The opening ceremony and first match took place at Tokyo stadium.

23 match at the Rugby World Cup in France. But the play could have easily occurred in Kanagawa Prefecture. De Klerk and Kriel are also teammates on the Yokohama Canon Eagles in Japan’s League One.

The highest peak is on the day before the opening ceremony A new study has revealed that the Rugby World Cup, (RWC) has fuelled a boom in Japan's tourism from the competing nations. During the ...

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 breach in an unprecedented ...