Japan's national rugby team, the Brave Blossoms, departed for their two-test European tour on Wednesday, emboldened by a narrow 38-31 defeat to New Zealand's famed All Blacks over the weekend.On Nov. 12, Japan will play England, whom they will face again next year in the World Cup, and France, against whom they lost twice this summer, on the 20th."We're no longer the team that is going to be satisfied by games where we come close," flanker Kazuki Himeno said of the test in which Japan had a chance to come from behind and beat the three-time world champions.On Saturday, the Brave Blossoms de…READ FULL ARTICLE
