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Ex-national team coach Shukuzawa dies at 55

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroaki Shukuzawa (file photo), the most successful coach of the Japan national rugby team, died of cardiac infarction on June 17. He was 55.

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Mukai named as Japan rugby national coach

TOKYO, Japan - Shogo Mukai (R), new coach of the Japanese national team, and Hiroaki Shukuzawa, new chief of the Japan Rugby Football Union's technical committee supervising the national team, shake hands at a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 29. Mukai takes over from Seiji Hirao, who resigned in November.

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Ex-national team coach Shukuzawa dies at 55

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroaki Shukuzawa (file photo), the most successful coach of the Japan national rugby team, died of cardiac infarction on June 17. He was 55. (Kyodo)

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Mukai named as Japan rugby national coach

TOKYO, Japan - Shogo Mukai (R), new coach of the Japanese national team, and Hiroaki Shukuzawa, new chief of the Japan Rugby Football Union's technical committee supervising the national team, shake hands at a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 29. Mukai takes over from Seiji Hirao, who resigned in November.