Eddie Jones will coach Japan at the 2027 Rugby World Cup after surviving a performance review at the end of a mixed second year back in charge.<\/p>\n
Japan Rugby Football Union Chairman Kensuke Iwabuchi said after an executive board meeting on Wednesday that there had been “various discussions” before deciding to back the 65-year-old Australian head coach.<\/p>\n
“We confirmed that we will continue to support the current structure,” Iwabuchil said.<\/p>\n
“We will support them so that they can move towards the World Cup in a good way.”<\/p>\n
Under Jones, Japan drew 1-1 in its home test series against Wales in July before embarking on a tour of Europe last month.<\/p>\n
The Brave Blossoms were thrashed 61-7 by South Africa, lost 41-10 to Ireland, were edged 24-23 by Wales and beat Georgia 25-23 thanks to a last-minute penalty.<\/p>\n
Japan finished the year with five wins and six defeats.<\/p>\n
In 2024, it suffered heavy defeats against England, New Zealand and France, and Iwabuchi said the team had improved under Jones.<\/p>\n
“There were various discussions, but there was a lot of praise for the way the team had grown and matured from 2024 into 2025,” he said.<\/p>\n
Japan were drawn in a pool with France, Samoa and the United States at the 2027 World Cup in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Jones will coach Japan at the 2027 Rugby World Cup after surviving a performance review at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,189728,28588,189729,189730,760,85],"class_list":["post-341789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brave-blossoms","tag-eddie-jones","tag-japan-rugby-football-union","tag-kensuke-iwabuchi","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}