For a sport renowned for bruising runs and thumping tackles, the mascots for the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan are on the softer side. Described as mythical, lion-like creatures that “bring ...

The 2019 Rugby World Cup features 20 teams. The top three finishers in each of the four pools at the 2015 World Cup qualified automatically, while the remaining teams won out in the qualifying stages.

Japan’s 31-man squad for the 2019 Rugby World Cup that is set to kick off in Tokyo on September 20. On August 29, the Japan Rugby Football Union announced the final 31 members of the men’s ...

The USA were beaten 45-7 by England at the Rugby World Cup in its opening game at Japan 2019. Shaun Davies passes the ball during the Group C match at Kobe Misaki Stadium in Kobe.

There’s been unprecedented interest in tickets for the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan, with 2.5 million applications made for tickets to date, some 700,000 more than the initial target set by ...

But as this World Cup has increasingly showed, there is no room for sentimentality and under the night sky on their own patch of land, Japan's fairy-tale tournament was brought to an abrupt finish ...

The logo for Japan 2019 - featuring a rising sun and Mount Fuji - was also released as Brett Gosper, Rugby World Cup Limited's managing director, expressed optimism over the next edition of the ...

With one year to go until the first Rugby World Cup in Asia, the events governing body has admitted Japan 2019 has been the most challenging they have had to organise.

Japan were once destroyed 145-17 by New Zealand at the World Cup but they are a different proposition these days and have become a regular fixture among rugby's top 10-ranked teams since winning ...

Japan saw off rival bids from Italy and South Africa to be named Asia's first-ever Rugby World Cup host nation in July 2009. Now, more than 10 years later, the waiting is almost over.

The Rugby World Cup 2019 Organising Committee and Japan Rugby Football Union (JRFU) on Wednesday announced the launch of the Dream Beyond 2019 Future Plan under the umbrella of World Rugby’s global ...

Fresh after securing a second successive Rugby World Cup crown, questions are being raised as to whether New Zealand can make it three in a row at Japan 2019. Japan will open its doors to the ...