‘Nothing but rugby’ for Japan’s elderly players
08 September 2019 |
8:15 am
Japan may have been seen as a leftfield choice to host the Rugby World Cup but if you want a sense of the country’s long love affair with the game, you could do worse than to get along to Tokyo’s Fuwaku club.
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