Ginnosuke Tanaka

Ginnosuke Tanaka

Ginnosuke Tanaka (田中 銀之助 "Tanaka Ginnosuke"), (1873-1933) - 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.

See also

*Anglo-Japanese relations
*Japan national rugby union team
*Japan Rugby Football Union
*Kikuchi Dairoku
*Japanese students in Britain

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

* " [http://www.dhs.kyutech.ac.jp/~ruxton/hatenkou.html 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.com, 2004. ISBN 1-4116-1256-6).


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