Veteran lock Luke Thompson, capped 71 times by Japan, came out of retirement at the age of 40 on Saturday as he joined Japan Rugby League One side NTT Communications Shining Arcs Tokyo-Bay Urayasu.The New Zealand-born Thompson helped the Brave Blossoms reach the knockout stage of the Rugby World Cup for the first time in 2019 when Japan hosted the tournament. He played what many thought was his final game of rugby with Kintetsu Liners in January 2020 before heading back to New Zealand to run a deer farm.Thompson remained an adviser at Kintetsu but the second-tier club on Saturday said he wa…READ FULL ARTICLE
