Tradition YCAC vs Shandong Day 1 – Game 3
Streamed live on Mar 25, 2015
GFI HKFC Tens 2015
Day 1 – Game 3
#HK10s
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Streamed live on Mar 25, 2015
GFI HKFC Tens 2015
Day 1 – Game 3
#HK10s
The post Tradition YCAC vs Shandong Day 1 – Game 3 appeared first on Tokyo Japan Rugby Club.
An email out of the blue containing two photos reveals the true start of Yokohama’s first kids rugby school.
Only match Hong Kong lost during their 1952 Japan tour excluded from subsequent lists of matches played by touring teams in Japan
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.
The first recorded playing of an early form of rugby by a Japanese is that of 17-year old KIKUCHI Dairoku (1855 – 1917) while studying at University College School in London. KIKUCHI Dairoku Yasuyuki1 was the second son of Dr. MITSUKURI Shuhei whose family produced a number of leading scholars. In 1866 he was the…
BEST YC&AC RUGBY PLAYER IN 1930s Background: As explained in the story about Bill Salter’s reminiscences, in 1989 I decided to track down and interview the ex-YC&AC rugby player living in Japan who had first played for the club before anyone else. I thought I might be looking for someone who had played in the late…
I wrote and circulated the information below with Japanese translations to a number of people involved in the rugby world in Japan including at least one director after initially making a complaint to the two Japanese officials on the spot at the Japan Pavilion in London during the RWC 2015 in the UK immediately after reading the information about the history of rugby in Japan that was offered in the display. I didn’t expect to get any response and I didn’t get any.