YC&AC 150th ANNIVERSARY OF RUGBY EVENT
Background Only a handful of “open” rugby clubs in the world can trace their history back 150 years. The Yokohama Country and Athletic Club (YC&AC) … Read more
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FIRST FOREIGN SPORTS MATCH AFTER TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE
Canada’s Twilighters played in Japan within weeks of disaster, becoming the first foreign sports team to play in japan after the tohoku earthquake
FUWAKU – WORLD’S FIRST SENIOR RUGBY CLUB
Over-40’s rugby originated in Japan in the aftermath of the second world war. Its beginnings can be traced back to one evening in October 1947, two years after the end of the war, when Tokyo was still utterly devastated having been reduced to heaps of rubble. Life was a struggle characterized by confusion and disorder.