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Waseda University R.F.C. was founded in 1918. It is one of the top rugby union clubs for students in Japan, together with Kanto Gakuin University RFC. It is the representative club of Waseda University and has produced many players for the Japan national rugby union team.

    Waseda University Rugby Football Club
        Notable victories
            Past
        Coaches
        See also
        Reference

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Notable victories

Waseda beat Toyota Verblitz 28-24 at Chichibunomiya on February 12, 2006. It was thus the first Japanese university to beat a Top League team. (In the semi-final Waseda lost to Toshiba Brave Lupus 0-43.)

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Past

Hiroaki Shukuzawa - the Japan national rugby union team's most successful coach so far

Katsuhiko Oku - diplomat

Yoshiro Mori - former Prime Minister

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Coaches

Katsuyuki Kiyomiya (2001-2006). He was formerly a player for Waseda and Suntory. In February 2006 a book was published by him in Japanese entitled Kyukyoku no Shori:Ultimate Crush ISBN 4-06-213271-0 He has been hugely successful with Waseda. The book has been translated into English. See here.

Ryuji Nakatake (2006-

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See also

Katsuhiko Oku

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Reference

ULTIMATE CRUSH: Waseda University Rugby, Leadership and Building the Strongest Winning Team in Japan by Katsuyuki Kiyomiya, translated into English by Ian Ruxton (September 2006)

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