Toyota Industries Shuttles

Toyota Industries Shuttles
Union Japan Rugby Football Union
Nickname(s) Shuttles
Founded 1984
Location Aichi, Mizuho
Ground(s) Mizuho Rugby Stadium (Capacity: 15,000)
Chairman Jun Matsuda
Coach(es) Masaya Niu
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Toyota Jido Shokki (also called Toyota Industries as distinct from Toyota, which was renamed Toyota Verblitz) is a Japanese rugby team owned by Toyota Industries. They were promoted to Japan's top-flight league Top League for the first time in the 2010-11 season. Its home base is Kariya City.

Name and colours

Toyota Shokki kit

The team name "Shuttles" derives from a part used in the Non-Stop Shuttle Change Toyoda Automatic Loom (for weaving fabrics), invented by Sakichi Toyoda, the founder of Toyota Industries.

The team and plays in a sky blue jersey with white shorts and sky blue socks.

History

The Toyota Industries rugby team was founded in 1984. In the late 1990s, the team played in the Kansai League and competed in the Companies National Tournament. From 2003–04, Toyota Industries competed in the West Regional League.

Toyota Industries gained promotion to the Top League for the first time in 2010-11, but only stayed up for one season.

Under Australian coach Tai McIsaac, Toyota Shokki defeated Fukuoka Sanix Blues in a promotion-relegation match in 2013 to gain entry to the 2013–14 Top League.

Stadium

Toyota Shokki Kariya ground

Toyota Shokki play their Top League home games at Mizuho Rugby Stadium in Nagoya. The stadium holds 15,000 people and was originally built in 1941. It has also been used to host international rugby matches, including for the 2014 Asian Five Nations.

The team trains at the Toyota Industries ground in Kariya.

Squad

The Toyota Industries Shuttles squad for 2015-16 Top League season:[1]

Props

  • Japan Masashi Debuchi
  • Japan Kenji Igarashi
  • Japan Yoshihisa Kawasaki
  • Japan Yusuke Nagae
  • Japan Yuki Namioka
  • Japan Kenji Ode

Hookers

  • Japan Takayuki Kamitani
  • Japan Hiroki Murakawa
  • Japan Tomoya Watanabe
  • Japan Takayuki Yasuoka
  • Japan Shinsuke Yoshida

Locks

  

Loose Forwards

  • Japan Chong Chi Hong
  • South Africa Ryan Kankowski
  • Japan Sumito Koli
  • Japan Masao Okazaki
  • Japan Takeshi Oyamada
  • Japan Yuga Takada
  • Japan Kento Takeuchi
  • Japan Takuya Takeuchi
  • Japan Sione Vatuvei

Scrum-halves

  • Japan Daiki Konishi
  • Japan Ryoya Shimohira
  • Japan Koichi Umeda
  • Japan Masaaki Yoshida

Fly-halves

  

Centres

Wingers

  • Japan Nariyuki Akaishi
  • Japan Rikiya Asami
  • Japan Kento Masui
  • South Korea So Kil-ryong
  • Japan Takashi Toyomae

Fullbacks

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

Former players

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Toyota Industries Shuttles: The Team" (in Japanese). Toyota Shokki. Retrieved 20 July 2015.

External links

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