The 2018 Taiyo Life Women's Sevens Series kicks off Sunday at Tokyo's Prince Chichibu Memorial Rugby Ground with 12 teams battling it out to become national champions.The nationwide competition is one way the Japan Rugby Football Union hopes to strengthen the national team in the build-up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and beyond.And it is a chance for former New Zealand sevens player Ed Cocker to see how far his Nagato Blue Angels have progressed in the one year they have been together."We played the qualifiers last year and somehow pulled through so we are now in the top tier," Cocker told Ky…READ FULL ARTICLE
