Argentina booked their place in the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals with victory over Japan in Nantes. Mateo Carreras was the star in a captivating, winner-takes-all Pool D encounter, with the dynamite ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Japan’s new-look professional rugby competition will launch next month with bold ambitions to win not only a domestic but a global audience, to attract the world’s best ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The Japan Rugby Football Union is challenging a decision by Asia Rugby to temporarily suspend JRFU executive director Kensuke Iwabuchi over a possible Code of Conduct ...

50-cap centre Samu Kerevi has maintained his red-hot form to start the Japan Rugby League One season for Urayasu D-Rocks.

KAMAISHI, Japan — Japan opened a new stadium last Sunday for the 2019 Rugby World Cup on the site of a school that was destroyed by a devastating tsunami in 2011. Two Japanese teams faced off in a ...

TOKYO, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Japanese captivated by their Brave Blossoms rugby team's historic run to the World Cup quarter finals are now suffering a new form of bereavement - "rugby loss" - after their ...

As the dust settles on England's disastrous first-round exit from their own Rugby World Cup, fans may be tempted to switch the English rose for the Japanese cherry blossom and join the record number ...

TOKYO, Sept 19 (Reuters) - The Rugby World Cup's power to bring people together was abundantly clear on Thursday as Japanese and Russian fans sang songs and competed in drinking games in a small Tokyo ...