Kurita Water Gush Akishima

Kurita Water Gush Akishima
栗田工業ウォーターガッシュ昭島
Full name	Kurita Water Rugby Akishima
Union	Japan Rugby Football Union
Nickname(s)	Water Gush
Founded	1962
Ground(s)	Kurita Industrial Ground ; 35°30′24″N 139°19′2″E / 35.50667°N 139.31722°E
Coach(es)	Wycliff Palu
League(s)	Japan Rugby League One, Division Three
2022	6th
1st kit	2nd kit
Official website
	www.kurita-water-rugby.net

Kurita Water Gush Akishima is a Japanese rugby union team competing in Division Three of Japan Rugby League One. Owned by Kurita Water Industries, a water treatment chemical manufacturer, the team is based in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The team rebranded as Kurita Water Gush Akishima in 2022, coinciding with the rebranding of the Top League to the Japan Rugby League One.^[1]

Squad

The Kurita Water Gush Akishima squad for the 2023-24 season is:^[2]

Kurita Water Gush Akishima squad
Props Masashi Debuchi Shoya Koyama Kim Hyong-ji* Aki Kajiwara Rui Kuriyama Kei Shibuya Kei Tagusagawa Shohei Tsujimura Issa Hosoya ^REP ^DEP Hookers Kota Hojo Jun Kaneko Ryota Kuribara Ryutaro Iguchi Locks Hiroki Kawase Mike Williams Daymon Leasuasu Mitsuo Nakao Kengo Nakamura Kota Nakamura Tebita Oto* Kai Yamasaki Youji Shiina ^REP ^DEP	Flankers Yosuke Ishii Taisei Nakao No8s Teariki Ben-Nicholas Scrum-halves Daiyu Ishimori Sho Nakamura Ryo Omasa Kakeru Sugihara Ren Shinwada Fly-halves Shogo Yanagita Takuro Hayashida Shinpei Suganuma Piers Francis Hiroki Handa ^REP ^DEP Yujin Ikezawa ^REP ^DEP	Centres Hosea Saumaki Antonio Mikaele-Tu'u So Matsushima Jamie Vakalahi* Daiki Yokota Katsuki Ishida ^REP ^DEP Wingers Koshi Emoto Keigo Hamazoe Ayato Sakamoto Kentaro Sugimori Yuta Sugiyama Tumanawa Tawhai Ryo Hosomoto ^REP ^DEP Fullbacks Yuki Kono Utility Backs

(c) denotes team captain.

^ "La nouvelle ligue japonaise s'appelle la Japan Rugby League One". Asie Rugby (in French). 16 July 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
^ "Kurita Water Gush Member List". Kurita Water Gush. Retrieved 16 December 2019.