Former Japan rugby player helps build Kamaishi stadium for World Cup

Former Japan rugby player Jiro Ishiyama not only talks a big game, he is a man who puts a premium on action."I was among a few who first proposed that Kamaishi host World Cup games (in 2019)," Ishiyama said at the site of a new rugby stadium in the northeastern city, which was devastated in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami."So I must do something to make it happen. That's why I returned to Kamaishi," for the first time in 25 years, said 61-year-old construction worker Ishiyama, who is helping build the new stadium.The facility, the only stadium newly constructed for the World Cup among the 1…READ FULL ARTICLE