New Zealand is ranked first in World Rugby and is the leading rugby country in the world. More than 130,000 people play from a 4.4 million population. The New Zealand Rugby Union has implemented the Scoreboard System for management which brings about transparency and greater accountability, and which provides accurate information about all levels of the rugby game. This system fundamentally gives power back to the rugby grassroots. This paper explains the Scoreboard System and discusses it. This system can provide four main advantages: 1 .Accountability, 2. Responsibility, 3.Efficiency, and 4.Governance. I also apply this system to Japan Rugby.

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The aim of this paper is to examine Japanese rugby fans' intentions and constraints with regard to attending the Rugby World Cup 2011 in New Zealand. Many studies have analyzed the behaviour of sports events participants. However, few studies have examined the intentions or constraints with regard to rugby fan in terms of going to a mega sports events. This study investigated the intentions and constraints associated with Japanese rugby fans with regard to going to the mega sports event, Rugby World Cup 2011 in New Zealand. There are several kinds of Japanese rugby fan: Top-League fan, university rugby fan, Japan national team fan, world rugby fan, etc. Their fans were classified into three fan segmentations associated with the level of intention for the Rugby World Cup 2011, using an independent t-test. Moreover, seven different constraint dimensions were identified using factor analysis. The results were discussed using the theory of a hierarchical model of leisure constraints.

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日本にラグビーが公式に紹介されてから88年後，1987年に第1回ラグビーワールドカップ（以下RWC）が開催され，今年第9回RWC2019大会が日本で開催される．日本代表は，このRWCに1回目から連続で出場し続けている．そのチームスタッフにはドクターとともに“外傷・障害の予防”と“パフォーマンスの発揮”を目的としてドクター，他スタッフと連携し，スポーツ現場での健康管理に携わるトレーナー（アスレティックトレーナー）が帯同している．スポーツ医・科学のサポートが今現在も現場でラグビー日本代表を支えている．その変遷を紹介する．

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This paper describes the trade-off condition between Pareto optimal solutions on the fluctuating punted kick by using Self-Organizing Maps. It was assumed that there were five objective functions and nine control parameters. Four of 5 objective functions are concerned with the fluctuation in the forward and the lateral directions, and the fifth objective function is the hang time. The relationship between five objective functions and nine control parameters was visualized by using Self-Organizing Maps. It was found that there was a trade-off between the hang time and the fluctuation.

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 Two game analytical studies were conducted to examine kick-off play in rugby football. In study 1, fourteen rugby matches at the top level in domestic university teams were analyzed to verify the importance of kick-off play in the game of rugby football. Main results were as follows: 1) The number of kick-off plays averaged about 13 per match. 2) The average percentage of gaining balls were very low at the kicking side in kick-off play. 3) Whether the ball could be gained in kick-off play related significantly to the length of time the kicking side occupied the opponent ground after kicking off, and it related significantly to the rate of the kicking side's getting score and score chance. From these results, kick-off play was concluded to be an important set play in the game of rugby football at the level concerned. In study 2, four matches were analyzed to diagnose the kick-off play of a team which was at the top level in the domestic university teams. The diagnosis found out some problems on the kickers, the catchers, and the supporters. Making better these faults of kick-off play will be an important task in coaching the team.

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