Japan national under-20 rugby union team

The Japan national under-20 rugby union team is Japan's junior national team in rugby union.

 Japan
UnionJapan Rugby Football Union
Coach(es)Keisuke Sawaki
Team kit
First international
Japan 17–53 France
(6 June 2008)
Largest win
Japan 54–17 Uruguay
(21 June 2009)
Largest defeat
New Zealand 75–0 Japan
(3 May 2015)
World Cup
Appearances2 (First in 2008)
Best result15th, 2008 & 2009

Japan won the IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy in 2014, beating Tonga in the final 35–10. This qualified them for the 2015 IRB Junior World Championship in Italy.[1] The team also competed at the Oceania U20 Championship in 2015.

Current squad

Squad to 2014 IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy.[2]

Forwards

  • Daigo Hashimoto
  • Jiwon Koo
  • Shogo Miura
  • Takumi Tsukahara
  • Takayuki Watanabe
  • Kosuke Horikoshi
  • Shunta Nakamura
  • Ryeongji Kim
  • Eishin Kuwano
  • Shoma Makinouchi
  • Yuto Ueda
  • Ryoi Kamei
  • Sota Oketani
  • Takeo Suenaga
  

Backs

  • Ippei Okada
  • Genki Okoshi
  • Rikiya Matsuda
  • Keisuke Moriya
  • Yoshiki Hamagishi
  • Kanta Ishida
  • Yuki Okada
  • Kenichiro Kuwae
  • Chihito Matsui
  • Shuhei Narita
  • Seiya Ozaki
  • Ryuji Noguchi

Management
  • Keisuke Sawaki - Head Coach
  • Shingo Mishima - Team Manager
  • Saturo Endo - Assistant Coach
  • Takayuki Kawasaki - Team Doctor
  • Satoshi Tashiro - Trainer
  • Yusuke Sakai - Strength & Conditioning
  • Hideaki Noguchi - Performance Analyst

2012 Junior World Rugby Trophy

Pool

Final

See also

References
  1. IRB (19 April 2014). "Japan win Junior World Rugby Trophy". Archived from the original on 20 April 2014. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-04-19. Retrieved 2014-06-03.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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