About

About JJRG

Team official name: Jakarta Japan Rugby Gila (common name: JJRG)

Formed: April 1, 2000 (Founded by Japanese Rugby players, who were part of ISCI Rugby Club, around 1996-2000.)

Club Members: About 70

Leadership

General Manager: Kenji Katsumoto
Captain: Goki Tokizaki
Vice Captain: Ayumu Yorozui, Yujiro Takano
Match Secretary: Teruhiko Kameoka
Assistant Match Secretary: Seigo Kinoshita
Accounting: Mitsuhiro Hashimoto
Admin: Tsuyoshi Goto
Public Relations: Shaun Gozali
Jr. Professionals: Shinichiro Maeda

Establishment

After being assigned to Jakarta in 1996, joined the ISCI rugby club. There were only Japanese in the team of foreigners, Takamatsu (Seikei), Sugimoto (Osho Univ.), Kamibayashi (Osaka Univ.), And Umekawa (Tokyo Univ.).

After that, by around 1999, Japanese athletes were gradually receiving reviews such as Oketani (Waseda), Fujino (Seikei), Maeda (Meikaku), Suzuki (Tohoku Univ.), Ansai (Science Univ.), Katsuyama (Kyoto Univ.). Was increasing.

An article about the Asian Japanese Rugby (AJRC) tournament held in Bangkok in 1999 was published in the Asahi Shimbun overseas edition, and a friend from Singapore sent me. When you drank this

“Jakarta is also in Asia. We want to come out.”

“But it’s impossible for 7 people.”

“No, if you recruit players, there will be more. Let’s recruit players and participate.” Katsuyama is enthusiastic

I said, “Okay, let’s recruit players.”

A poster created by Mrs. Oketani was posted on “Cosmo,” which was the only supermarket for Japanese people at the time, and a thread for recruiting rugby players was posted on the Japanese online bulletin board “Yorozu Indonesia” in Jakarta.

Whenever I visited a customer at work, I started to solicit them, asking them if they had any experience of rugby.

There were over 15 players in a blink of an eye, and a Japanese team was formed.

The official day of formation was April 1, 2000.

The team name is JJRG: Jakarta Japan Rugby Gila (Gila: Crazy in Indonesian)

History / Captain:

April 1, 2000 JJRG launched

First appearance at Asian Japanese Cup (one-day tournament of Asian-based Japanese rugby club) at the end of 2000

2007-2008: Captain Saito

2008-2010: Captain Doai

2010-2011: Captain Ishii

2011: Host country of Asian Japanese Cup

2011-2012: Captain Toyoda