Rugby: Japan putting emphasis up front ahead of Chile challenge

Japan opened the doors of Stade Ernest Wallon to the rugby-mad Toulouse public on Thursday as they held their final training session before Jamie Joseph announces the team to take on Chile in their Rugby World Cup opener at the weekend.While the backs did run through some drills that delighted a crowd of about 1,500 -- whose hometown heroes are the purveyors of champagne rugby -- there was no doubt what the focus for Sunday's game is.The post-training press conference featured scrum coach Shin Hasegawa and props Asaeli Ai Valu and Craig Millar, and not surprisingly the talk was all about th…READ FULL ARTICLE