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The Yokohama Canon Eagles is a Japanese rugby union team founded in 1981 that competes in the Japan Rugby League One and is owned by Canon. The team was previously based in Machida , Tokyo , Japan. According to the official website, it was founded as Canon Rugby Team in 1980, and determined the nickname Eagles in 2010.
François de Klerk (born 19 October 1991) known by his nickname Faf, is a South African professional rugby union player who plays scrum-half for Japan Rugby League One club Yokohama Canon Eagles and the South Africa national team. He was a member of the South Africa teams that won the Rugby World Cup in 2019 and 2023.
The first recorded instance of a team being established and rugby being played in Japan was in 1866 with the founding of the Yokohama Foot Ball Club. Games, mainly between service personnel, were played on the Garrison Parade Ground in Yamate, Yokohama. [7] In 1874 records also illustrate British sailors staging a game in Yokohama.
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The JRFU published a pamphlet about the same time called The Land of the Rising Scrum. [11] (a pun on the country's Japanese name, "Nihon", meaning "Land of the Rising Sun"), and the Japanese Royal Family have been keen supporters of the game for many decades. [11] Japan and Canada had the first tour outside the main "traditional" rugby playing ...
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Canon Eagles (scrum coach) [3] Naoto Nakamura ( 中村直人 , Nakamura Naoto ) (born 18 January 1969) is a Japanese former rugby union player who played as prop. He played 20 tests for the Japan national rugby union team including two matches in 1999 Rugby World Cup . [ 4 ]