Union | Japan Rugby Football Union | ||
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Emblem(s) | Sakura | ||
Founded | 2012 | ||
Coach(es) | Naoya Okubo | ||
Captain(s) | Keito Aoki | ||
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Junior Japan is a national representative rugby union team of the Japan rugby union. It is a second-tier side to the Japan national rugby union team. Junior Japan competes in the World Rugby Pacific Challenge against teams such as Samoa A, Fiji Warriors, and Argentina's Pampas XV.[1]
The Junior Japan squad was formed in 2012 from players just outside the main Japanese national squad. In the first year, the team played a match in Tokyo against the Tongan national side, before joining the Pacific Rugby Cup in 2013.[2]