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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese fans celebrated their team's stunning upset of Ireland at the Rugby World Cup with everyone from the prime minister to rivals paying tribute to the historic win. A day after the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...