Rugby World Cup 2019 Press Conference In Japan

Yoshihiko Sakuraba, who played for Japan in the RWC three times and is the Rugby World Cup 2019 Ambassador attends a news conference in Japan at The Foreign Press Center Japan (FPCJ), Tokyo 21 February 2019. The Rugby World Cup (RWC) will be held in Japan from September 20 to November 2, the first time it has been held in Asia. Over 400,000 spectators are expected to travel to Japan for this RWC. One of those host cities is Kamaishi, Iwate, which was known as the City of Rugby in the 1980s and was seriously damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake. (Photo by Alessandro Di Ciommo/NurPhoto via Getty Images)