Beaumont was in a tight race to keep his job against Agustin Pichot, and according to sources, he won Japan Rugby Football Union's backing with a promise to promote the national team to Tier 1.

The Japan rugby team is looking for a quarter-final place in 2019 Football - or "socca" as the Japanese call it - was given a boost in the baseball-mad land of the rising Sun when the World Cup ...

Rugby fever swept Japan in the autumn of 2019. It was the first ever rugby world cup hosted in Japan—and indeed, in Asia. The national team took first place in the first round A pool, going four ...

As Japan prepare for a World Cup quarter-final against South Africa, BBC Sport explores how the hosts became a force to be reckoned with.

The members of the Japanese national rugby team hail from all corners of the world. Each has his own reason for playing under the Rising Sun flag, but one thing they all have in common is their ...

If Japan were to develop a domestic league that better nurtured and rewarded talent, and its national team faced regular tests against the world’s best, Japanese rugby would have a better chance ...

TOKYO — As the first Asian team to host the Rugby World Cup, Japan knew it was on the game’s biggest stage on Friday night, and during the opening act it seemed most of its players were ...

Japan gets 2019 Rugby World Cup ball rolling 27 November 2013 The Japan rugby team is looking for a quarter-final place in 2019 By Bill Wilson Business reporter, BBC News ...