News | June 7, 2017 | news
Japan could be testing opposition in August as again the pushed an Ireland XV hard in the second unofficial international today.
News | June 3, 2017 | news
Closing tries from Claire Molloy and Hannah Tyrrell, with the latter adding a crucial conversion, gave an Ireland Women's XV a 24-22 win over Japan in an uncapped international trial game at the UCD Bowl this evening
News | May 28, 2016 | news
Japan delivered a complete all-round performance in beating Hong Kong 30-3 to capture the 2016 Women’s Asia Rugby Championship title in Tokyo on Saturday – but Hong Kong coach Jo Hull was quick to praise the “character” of her charges.
News | May 7, 2016 | news
Japan were far too strong for Hong Kong in the first leg of the Asian Championship, reduced to a home-and-away fixture between the two teams after Kazakhstan's withdrawal.
News | May 10, 2015 | news
An impressive all-round team performance gave Japan their first ever win over Kazakhstan at their eighth attempt – and Kazakhstan’s first ever defeat to Asian opposition.
News | May 24, 2014 | news
Japan - narrowly beaten the final of final of last year's Asian championship - open their 2014 campaign with a comfortable win over Singapore.
Hong Kong's first test match was against Japan in 1998. Nine times they had met before yesterday, and nine times the result had been the same - a win for Japan, sometimes by a huge score (such as last year, when the result was 82-0 in Japan's favour). In half the matches played Hong Kong had failed to register a single point. But all that changed yerterday (19th May 2014)
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