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Kaino agrees Japan switch

Flanker Jerome Kaino has opted to leave New Zealand rugby and sign for Japanese club Toyota on a two-year…
World Cup winner Kaino to leave for Japan

Rugby World Cup winner Jerome Kaino has confirmed he is leaving New Zealand to take up a two-year contract in…

Full-back
Shaun Webb, Taihei Ueda
Wing
Kosuke Endo, Hirotoki Onozawa, Takehisa Usuzuki
Centre
Alisi Tupuailai, Koji Taira, Ryan Nicholas, Yuta Inamura
Fly-Half
Murray Williams, James Arlidge
Scrum-Half
Tomoki Yoshida, Fumiaki Tanaka, Atsushi Hiwasa
Number 8
Ryukoliniasi Holani, Itaru Taniguchi
Flanker
Sione Vatuvei, Michael Leitch, Takashi Kikutani (cap.)
Lock
Luke Thompson, Hitoshi Ono, Toshizumi Kitagawa, Justin Ives
Hooker
Hiroki Yuhara, Shota Horie, Yusuke Aoki
Prop
Naoki Kawamata, Hisateru Hirashima, Kensuke Hatakeyama, Nozomu Fujita
Coach
John Kirwan