Rugby: Japan need to learn from their mistakes, and quickly

The Japan national rugby team returned to Tokyo on Sunday knowing they disappointed a lot of people Saturday in the first of their two games against Ireland."Shizuoka turned on a real show for us but we let them down," head coach Jamie Joseph said following the 50-22 loss.A good crowd of 27,381 -- though like Kumamoto a week before it was probably quite a few more with a number of school children let in for free -- saw Joseph's side handed a lesson in discipline and finishing.The good news is Japan have a habit of rebounding from poor performances in a two-match series, as they did in 2014 …READ FULL ARTICLE