{"id":414123,"date":"2026-01-15T07:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/414123\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T07:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:27:08","slug":"japan-officially-launches-bid-to-host-2035-rugby-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/414123\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan officially launches bid to host 2035 Rugby World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO &#8211; The Japan Rugby Football Union has officially launched its bid to host the 2035 Rugby World Cup, looking to repeat the success of the 2019 tournament held in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to create the best World Cup not only for the rugby world, but for Japan and the rest of the world,&#8221; JRFU President Masato Tsuchida said at a press conference Wednesday in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>The JRFU, which submitted an expression of interest to World Rugby last Friday, will also consider a fallback bid to host the 2039 edition, Tsuchida indicated.<\/p>\n<p>Tsuchida previously confirmed the plans to host the 2035 tournament during an interview with Kyodo News in London last September.<\/p>\n<p>The sport&#8217;s global ruling body is scheduled to select a preferred hosting candidate in May 2027 and make an official decision in November that year.<\/p>\n<p>Australia is hosting the next World Cup in 2027, with the following tournament in 2031 to be held in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Japan received high praise for the 2019 World Cup, the first edition to be held in Asia, but faces stiff competition from other potential hosts including Spain, as well as a possible joint bid from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO &#8211; The Japan Rugby Football Union has officially launched its bid to host the 2035 Rugby World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-414123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414123","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=414123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}