Ginnosuke Tanaka
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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person Template:Nihongo is credited with the introduction of rugby to Japan. He was educated at the Leys School in Cambridge and then Trinity Hall, a college of Cambridge University.<ref>Template:Acad</ref> He introduced rugby to students at Keio University, in 1899, with the help of Edward Bramwell Clarke. Later, he pursued a career in banking.
See also
- Anglo-Japanese relations
- Japan national rugby union team
- Japan Rugby Football Union
- Kikuchi Dairoku
- Japanese students in Britain
References
- For the historical background see 'Britain's Contribution to the Development of Rugby Football in Japan 1874–1998' by Alison Nish, Chapter 27, Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits , Volume III, Japan Library, 1999 Template:ISBN
- Japanese Students at Cambridge University in the Meiji Era, 1868–1912: Pioneers for the Modernization of Japan, by Noboru Koyama, translated by Ian Ruxton, lulu.com, 2004. Template:ISBN).