Tanaka Ginnosuke
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Tanaka Ginnosuke 田中銀之助 (1873-1933) - family name first in the Japanese style - was educated at the Leys School in Cambridge and then Trinity Hall, a college of Cambridge University. He introduced rugby to students at Keio University, in 1899, with the help of Edward Bramwell Clarke. Later, he pursued a career in banking.
[edit] See also
- Anglo-Japanese relations
- Japan national rugby union team
- Japan Rugby Football Union
- Kikuchi Dairoku
- Japanese students in Britain
[edit] External links
- For the historical background see 'Britain's Contribution to the Development of Rugby Football in Japan 1874-1998' by Alison Nish, Chapter 27, Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits , Volume III, Japan Library, 1999 ISBN 1-873410-89-1
- Japanese Students at Cambridge University in the Meiji Era, 1868-1912: Pioneers for the Modernization of Japan, by Noboru Koyama, translated by Ian Ruxton, (Lulu Press, September 2004, ISBN 1-4116-1256-6).
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