Japan rugby got another big boost this past weekend with the Sakura 7s team regaining their spot on the Women's World Sevens Series thanks to a 22-10 win over South Africa in the final of the qualifying tournament. The result was particularly timely as the Land of the Rising Sun hosts the net leg ...
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Japan Men’s Final Squad and Pool Schedule for Hong Kong 7s
The 2017 Hong Kong Sevens is round seven of the 2016-17 HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series and will be held from 07-09 April 2017 at the Hong Kong Stadium, Hong Kong. Japan are one of the fifteen core teams in the main draw of the series and they are in Pool C along with Fiji, New Zealand and Wales. ...
Japan in pole position in Hong Kong qualifiers | World Rugby Women’s Sevens Series qualifier
Japan impressed on day one of the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series qualifier in Hong Kong on Thursday, as the battle for a place on next year's series intensified in So Kon Po. Friday's quarter finals will see unbeaten Japan play China, South Africa take on Papua New Guinea, Belgium play ...
TOP REF CRAIG JOUBERT ATTENDS ASIA RUGBY’S ANNUAL REFEREES’ CAMP IN HONG KONG
Top World Rugby referee Craig Joubert kindly made time to address Asia Rugby’s panel referees and coaches of match officials (CMO’s) appointed to this year's Asia Rugby Championship (ARC), who attended the 2017 Referees' Camp, held this year in Hong Kong over the weekend of 1st April Some 20 ...
World Rugby Women’s Sevens Series Qualifier
World Rugby Women’s Sevens Series Qualifier will be held on Thursday and Friday, 6-7 April, at So Kon Po. The Semi Finals and Cup Final will be played inside the Hong Kong Stadium as part of the Cathay Pacific/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens. The winner of the World Rugby Women’s Sevens Series Qualifier ...
Japan’s 5 Different Squads- Problem or Opportunity? | ARC2017
Japan's bid to develop a squad capable of reaching the semifinals of Rugby World Cup 2019 – as hoped for by the Japan Rugby Football Union – has seen it reach all corners of the globe in recent weeks. No less than five different men's squads have been in action in five different continents as ...
Schedule confirmed for Kitakyushu Sevens
The pools and match schedule have been announced for the first ever round of the HSBC World Rugby Women’s Sevens Series in Japan, the HSBC Kitakyushu Sevens on 22-23 April. The 11 core teams will be joined by invitation team Japan for the fourth round of the 2016-17 series at the new Mikuni World ...
World Rugby announces historic agreement on long-term calendar harmony
Global calendar agreement sets out international schedule from 2020-32. Optimised calendar promotes compelling, competitive and meaningful tests Long-term agreement creates commercial certainty for all unions 39 per cent increase in tier one v tier two fixtures with emerging nations ...
Junior Japan Open with a Win in World Rugby Pacific Challenge 2017
On a sunny day at the ANZ Stadium in Suva, the World Rugby Pacific Challenge 2017 kicked off with two entertaining contests that went right down to the wire. As they did last year, Junior Japan began with a win, outscoring Samoa A five tries to three to bag the bonus point, while all five points ...
Annual Performance Development Workshop in Tokyo
Forty delegates from 12 member unions are at the Ryutsu Keizai University in Ibaraki, outside Tokyo this week for Asia Rugby’s 3rd, annual Performance Development Workshop. The majority are Trainers & Educators from the World Rugby / Asia Rugby Training & Education Workforce. They will ...