Japan National Rugby Union Team - Current Squad

Current Squad

Japanese 30-man squad for their End of year tour of Europe 2012, aimed at giving them the experience they need to achieve the goal of becoming a top-10 nation by the 2015 Rugby World Cup . The squad will encounter Romania (10 Nov) and Georgia (17 Nov) for the very first time, before facing a Basque Selection (21 Nov) and the French Barbarians (25 Nov) for the third time this year.

  • Head Coach: Eddie Jones
Backs
Player
Position Club
Fumiaki Tanaka Scrum-half Highlanders
Atsushi Hiwasa Scrum-half Suntory Sungoliath
Yu Tamura Fly-half NEC Green Rockets
Yasuki Hayashi Fly-half Wild Knights
Kosei Ono Fly-half Suntory Sungoliath
Yuta Imamura Centre Kobelco Steelers
Harumichi Tatekawa Centre Kubota Spears
Tomohiro Senba Centre Toshiba Brave Lupus
Akihito Yamada Wing Wild Knights
Hirotoki Onozawa Wing Suntory Sungoliath
Toshiaki Hirose (c) Wing Toshiba Brave Lupus
Atsushi Tanabe Fullback Wild Knights
Go Aruga Fullback Suntory Sungoliath
Ayumu Goromaru Fullback Yamaha Jubilo
Forwards
Player
Position Club
Shota Horie Hooker Melbourne Rebels
Yusuke Aoki Hooker Suntory Sungoliath
Hisateru Hirashima Prop Kobelco Steelers
Hiroshi Yamashita Prop Kobelco Steelers
Yusuke Nagae Prop Ricoh Black Rams
Kensuke Hatakeyama Prop Suntory Sungoliath
Takuma Asahara Prop Toshiba Brave Lupus
Hitoshi Ono Lock Toshiba Brave Lupus
Luke Thompson Lock Kintetsu Liners
Daiki Hashimoto Flanker Kobelco Steelers
Hendrik Tui Flanker Wild Knights
Takashi Kikutani Flanker Toyota Verblitz
Michael Leitch Flanker Toshiba Brave Lupus
Shoji Ito Number eight Kobelco Steelers
Koliniasi Ryu Holani Number eight Wild Knights
Michael Broadhurst Number eight Ricoh Black Rams

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