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 ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Scrumhalf Fumi Tanaka has announced his retirement from international rugby at the age of 39, ending a career which spanned one of the most successful eras in Japanese ...

Harrison Brewer has played senior rugby alongside - and against - some of the greatest players the world has ever seen. He can namecheck the three Barrett brothers who played against Ireland last ...