Tanaka Ginnosuke - Definition and Overview

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.

See also

• Anglo-Japanese relations
• Japan national rugby union team
• Japan Rugby Football Union
• Kikuchi Dairoku

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 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1873410891/qid=1101692258/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/104-9657668-4757514?v=glance&s=books), Volume III, Japan Library, 1999 ISBN 1873410891

• Japanese Students at Cambridge University in the Meiji Era, 1868-1912: Pioneers for the Modernization of Japan (http://www.dhs.kyutech.ac.jp/~ruxton/hatenkou.html), by Noboru Koyama, translated by Ian Ruxton, (Lulu Press (http://www.lulu.com/content/71869), September 2004, ISBN 1411612566).