{"id":668364,"date":"2026-05-13T14:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/668364\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T14:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:28:10","slug":"japan-rugby-coach-eddie-jones-suspended-for-abusing-officials-will-miss-hong-kong-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/668364\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan rugby coach Eddie Jones suspended for abusing officials, will miss Hong Kong matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Japan suspended head coach Eddie Jones for four games and cut his salary on Wednesday for \u201cverbal abuse directed at local officials\u201d during an Australian tour, removing his involvement from matches against Hong Kong later this month.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Jones will miss Japan\u2019s Nations Championship opener against Italy in Tokyo on July 4.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Japan Rugby Football Union said the 66-year-old Australian violated their ethics and disciplinary regulations during a Japan Under-23 team tour of Australia from April 1 to 15.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThese measures relate to incidences of verbal abuse directed at local match officials,\u201d the JRFU said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They said Jones had \u201caccepted this decision\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Eddie Jones will be free to resume his duties against Ireland in July. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8311a2be-9025-4b7a-80cf-44b6a71a247d_5d38dfdf.jpg\" title=\"Eddie Jones will be free to resume his duties against Ireland in July. Photo: AFP\"\/>Eddie Jones will be free to resume his duties against Ireland in July. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI accept the disciplinary action of the JRFU relating to the U23 Japan national team tour of Australia,\u201d Jones said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan suspended head coach Eddie Jones for four games and cut his salary on Wednesday for \u201cverbal abuse&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,81,1208,10340,26779,2328,941,189729,4443,72441,306171,10668,2591,760,1183,85,11804],"class_list":["post-668364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian","tag-england","tag-hong-kong","tag-ireland","tag-italy","tag-japan","tag-japan-rugby-football-union","tag-jones","tag-maori-all-blacks","tag-nagoya","tag-newcastle","tag-paris","tag-rugby","tag-south-africa","tag-sports","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668364","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=668364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}