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NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes Osaka

NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes Osaka

Japanese rugby union club, based in Osaka

NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes Osaka is a Japanese rugby union team owned by NTT DoCoMo. They qualified for the 2011–12 season and finished 12th place overall. The team rebranded in 2022, ahead of the rebranding of the Top League to the Japan Rugby League One.[1]

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Squad

The NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes Osaka squad for the 2023-24 season is:[2]

NTT Docomo Red Hurricanes Osaka squad

Props

  • Japan Shota Takai
  • Japan Shosuke Fukasawa
  • Japan Hiromichi Sakamoto
  • Japan Yuichiro Hosono
  • Japan Munetaka Sashida
  • Tonga Sione Afemui*
  • Japan Hiroshi Kitajima
  • Japan Ryosei Kojima
  • Japan Yosuke Nishiura
  • Japan Kaito Yamauchi
  • Japan Shinnosuke Toyonaga REP

Hookers

  • Japan Mitsumasa Harayama
  • Japan Hiamitsu Shimada
  • Japan Yo Sato
  • Japan Kentaro Otsuka
  • Japan Kanta Yoshida REP

Locks

  • Japan Tatsunari Fujita
  • Australia Tom Jeffries
  • Japan Hibiki Noda
  • Japan Toru Sugishita(c)
  • Japan Kaito Isono
  • Japan Ryuma Kohara
  • New Zealand Michael Allardice
  • Japan Sentaro Fukue REP DEP
  • Japan Shintaro Fujii REP

Flankers

  • Japan Daisuke Kurihara
  • Australia Josh Fenner
  • Japan Hiroki Hanada
  • Japan Taro Sato
  • Japan Itsuki Yano REP

No8s

Scrum-halves

  • Japan Tatsuya Hamano
  • Japan Akira Inoue
  • Japan Koki Makiyama
  • Japan Hayato Mitsui
  • Japan Toshihiro Yamanouchi

Fly-halves

Centres

  • Japan Mifiposeti Paea
  • Philippines Benjamin Saunders
  • South Korea Kim Yon-hwi
  • Japan Daisuke Iba
  • Japan Masaki Kobayashi
  • Japan Kaoru Tsuruta
  • Japan Amane Tomioka REP

Wingers

  • Japan Tasuku Koizumi
  • Japan Takuma Yasui
  • Japan Koki Shigeno
  • Japan Ryo Tsuruda
  • Japan Yuki Ishii
  • Japan Kenya Nishikawa REP


Fullbacks

  • Australia Michael Zakhia*
  • Japan Kenta Komura
  • Japan Kanta Yamamoto
  • Japan Taichi Yoshizawa
  • Japan Taiki Yamaguchi REP

Utility Backs

(c) Denotes team captain, Bold denotes player is internationally capped

References

  1. [1]
    "La nouvelle ligue japonaise s'appelle la Japan Rugby League One". Asie Rugby (in French). 16 July 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
  2. [2]
    "NTT Docomo Red Hurricanes: The Team". Docomo Rugby (in Japanese). Retrieved 11 February 2018.
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