{"id":669334,"date":"2026-05-14T00:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T00:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/669334\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T00:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T00:49:08","slug":"eddie-jones-suspended-by-japan-rugby-for-verbal-abuse-on-australian-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/669334\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Jones suspended by Japan rugby for verbal abuse on Australian tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eddie Jones has been suspended from coaching Japan during its rugby union Test match against Italy in July after “incidences of verbal abuse” during a recent tour of Australia.<\/p>\n

The Japan Rugby Football Union (JRFU) announced the disciplinary measures late on Wednesday after it found the Australian had breached the union’s ethics and disciplinary regulations.<\/p>\n

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The JRFU said Jones had engaged in verbal abuse towards match officials during the national under-23 team’s tour of Australia last month.<\/p>\n

Jones is banned from taking any part in two matches between Japan Select and Hong Kong China Select, a clash between Japan XV and the M\u0101ori All Blacks, and the July 4 Test match between Japan and Italy.<\/p>\n

Jones will also be taking a pay cut, the JRFU said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“In light of the seriousness of this matter, the JRFU has already decided, based on the contract with him, to impose a salary reduction on him and to suspend him from his duties as head coach of the Japan national team for six weeks [from April 24 to June 5],” the JRFU said.<\/p>\n

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In a statement, Jones said he accepted the sanctions against him by the union, and apologised for his conduct during the tour of Australia.<\/p>\n

“Some inappropriate remarks that I made caused discomfort to local match officials and other related parties,” Jones said.<\/p>\n

“I would like to offer my sincere apologies to everyone involved.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I deeply regret my behaviour and words and will make every effort to ensure that this doesn’t happen again.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Jones has been suspended from coaching Japan during its rugby union Test match against Italy in July…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5844,64,63,28588,323101,2633,588,85],"class_list":["post-669334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-abc-sport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-eddie-jones","tag-japan-rugby","tag-rugby-union","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669334","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=669334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}