I thought the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan was a magnificent tournament. It was extremely well organized, with great participation by the host country. Financially and in terms of participation, it was the most successful World Cup there has been. Japan was wrapped up ...

The England team and I will leave for Japan to start our Rugby World Cup campaign on Sept. 8. We'll arrive just short of two weeks before our first game, against Tonga. First, we're going down to Miyazaki, and we'll stay there for about eight ...

The Rugby World Cup has become a massive sporting event. It's the third-biggest sporting event in the world now, and at the time of year that it's played, it's the biggest. Teams have become hugely professional. It's probably taken a lot away from test rugby in ...

It's 100 days to go until the Rugby World Cup, and all the countries are about to get their players together for training. With England, we get ours on July 8 and then we'll have three four-day camps around the country. Then we go to ...

Playing against my England team at Twickenham last month was incredible for Japan. The Brave Blossoms also played New Zealand at home last month and Australia last year. Compare that to when I was Japan head coach. We played Georgia in Tbilisi and Romania in ...

I think there have been some amazing developments and some not-so-amazing developments in Japanese rugby since the 2015 Rugby World Cup. When I look at the young players coming through from university now, their physical development has improved close to 80 percent. Players now are ...

I've got a calendar here and it says 495 days, four hours, five minutes and 23 seconds to the World Cup. We track it very closely. We started a strategic plan for the World Cup in 2016, not long after I took over the England ...