Junior Japan

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.

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.

Current Squad Naoya Okubu named a 33 man squad for the World Rugby Pacific Challenge 2024. +PlayerPositionClub/ProvinceJinnosuke MoriLoose-head Prop Tenri University Mutsuki UradeLoose-head Prop Kindai UniversityKenji SatoHooker Waseda UniversityHaruya KerakawauchiHooker Teikyo UniversityKenshin ShimizuHooker Waseda UniversityTowa NunobikiTight-head Prop Teikyo UniversityYuta HattaTight-head Prop Kyoto Sangyo UniversityTakumi YamaguchiTight-head Prop Meiji UniversityChuka IshibashiLock Kyoto Sangyo UniversityShuntaro IsobeLock Kyoto Sangyo UniversityYotaro MonobeLocks Meiji UniversityTomonosuke ShiromaruLock Tsukuba UniversityKeito AokiLock Teikyo UniversityKoki KawagoeBack row Tenri University Yoshiaki TaianBack row Tenri University Shusui KameiBack row Meiji UniversityKotaro OkawaBack row Meiji UniversityAsahi DoeiScrum-half Kyoto Sangyo UniversityJoji TakagiScrum-half Kyoto Sangyo UniversityRieto Ito Scrum-half Meiji UniversityTakaya MotohashiFly-half Teikyo UniversityRyunosuke ItoFly-half Meiji UniversityYuta AkihamaCentre Meiji UniversityYamato UedaCentre Teikyo UniversityKohaku EbisawaWinger Meiji UniversityYoshitaka YazakiWinger Waseda UniversityJingo TakenoshitaUtility back Meiji UniversityTasuku MasuyamaUtility back Tsukuba UniversityAoi OmiyaReserve Nihon UniversityRyoku MasuoReserveUnattachedSyota GotoReserve Nihon UniversityYusuke YoshidaReserve Teikyo University

Record Season standings Pacific Rugby Cup YearPosPldWDLFA+/-TBLBPtsFinalNotes 2013 3rd 6 0 0 6 140 361 -221 3 0 3 – 2014 4th 3 0 0 3 26 241 -210 0 0 0 – Finished 4th in Pool A

World Rugby Pacific Challenge YearPosPldWDLFA+/-TBLBPtsFinalNotes 2015 6th 3 0 0 3 41 212 -171 1 0 1 – Finished 3rd in Pool A2016 3rd 3 1 0 2 58 94 -36 0 0 4 – Lost to Tonga A in the 3rd place play off. 20172nd320192103 -112010–20182nd3201777702010–20192nd32019497 -33011–20201st330014325 +1182014–20233rd3102100133 - 33206–

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