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Full name
  
Toshiba Brave Lupus

Location
  
Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan

League
  
Top League

Coach(es)
  
Tomohiro Segawa

Nickname(s)
  
Brave Lupus

2016–17
  
9th

Founded
  
1948


Union
  
Japan Rugby Football Union

Ground
  
Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium

Toshiba Brave Lupus (Lupus is wolf in Latin) is a Japanese rugby union team in the Top League. They are based in Fuchu, Tokyo, as is their local rival Suntory Sungoliath. They won the second ever Top League championship in the 2004-5 season and the Microsoft Cup in 2005 under their innovative and inventive coach Masahiro Kunda, himself a former hooker for Toshiba and Japan. They are particularly known for the strength of their mauls. Before the Top League was created, the team was called Toshiba Fuchu after their location. Their slogan for 2006 season is "Once again to the Pinnacle (Restart)".

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On 14 March 2008, Bristol Rugby player David Hill announced he'd leave the English club for Toshiba at the end of the season.

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Honours


  • All-Japan Championship
  • Champions: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2006 (joint champions with NEC Green Rockets), 2007
  • Top League:
  • Champions: 2004-05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2008–09

    • Current squad

    The current Toshiba Brave Lupus squad is:

    Past players

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  • Francois Steyn - fly half and full back for Toshiba
  • Shogo Mukai - full back for Toshiba and Japan, now head coach of Coca-Cola Red Sparks
  • Masahiro Kunda - hooker for Toshiba and Japan
  • Andrew McCormick - centre, former captain of the Japan national rugby union team, now coaching at Coca-Cola Red Sparks
  • Wataru Murata - scrum half (before he went to France and then played for Yamaha Jubilo)
  • Shinji Ono - number 8
  • Yohei Suzuki - full back
  • Ruatangi Vatuvei - lock/centre (moved to Kintetsu Liners before 2007-8 season)
  • Kei Yasuda - lock
  • Mamoru Ito - scrum half
  • Scott McLeod - centre

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    References

    Toshiba Brave Lupus Wikipedia
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