Death threats sparked Japan’s first cricket game | The Japan Times
Article written by me for The Japan Times On June 25, 1863, a Royal Navy team drawn from officers on …
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1866 and all that: the untold early history of rugby in Japan | The Japan Times
1866 and all that: the untold early history of rugby in Japan Article written by JMG for The Japan Times …
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YC&AC 100 YEARS AGO DURING WW1
The YC&AC grounds and sports facilities at Yaguchidai have been enjoyed by the club’s sporting members for just over 100 …
BILL SALTER’S REMINISCENCES
GLIMPSES OF YC&AC AND RUGBY IN JAPAN ON AND OFF THE FIELD IN 1920s & 1930s – BILL SALTER’S REMINISCENCES
THE 1874 “FOOTBALL IN YOKOHAMA” ILLUSTRATION AND THE ARTIST WHO CREATED IT
The image is most likely the oldest image of rugby in Asia and one of the very oldest in the world relating to ‘club’ football – at glance at the picture will tell you that the players were certainly not playing a game of soccer – actually being played as opposed to football/rugby played in schools and universities.
CONGRATULATORY MESSAGES – 150th ANNIVERSARY OF CLUB-BASED RUGBY IN JAPAN
Messages mostly from descendants of players and also from living ex-players involved in rugby in Yokohama history – 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1950s to 1980, 1971, 1979, and 1980s
REMARKABLE CONTEMPORARY 1864 REFERENCE TO FOOTBALL/‘RUGBY’ IN JAPAN FOUND IN BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL
This is the earliest evidence of British army officers and Yokohama civilians playing football regularly in Yokohama, Japan in the mid-1860s
MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE’S UNKNOWN REMARKABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO 19th CENTURY JAPAN ESPECIALLY IN FIELD OF RUGBY AND OTHER SPORTS
SCHOOL’S ALUMNI HELPED INTRODUCE MANY SPORTS IN JAPAN, INCLUDING RUGBY, INITIATED FOUNDING OF KEY YOKOHAMA & KOBE SPORTS CLUBS, & …
RUGBY ESTABLISHED IN AGE OF SHOGUNS & SAMURAI
Japan’s YC&AC rugby club, founded in the turbulent last days of the ferocious samurai and the Tokugawa shoguns, was the first rugby club established in Asia and is one of the very oldest in the world.
ORIGINS OF BASEBALL IN JAPAN AND YC&AC’S BASEBALL SECTION
The evidence that the first baseball club in Japan was the Yokohama Base Ball Club and not the Shimbashi Athletic Club!