{"id":15933,"date":"2012-10-27T20:06:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T18:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/rugby-japans-tanaka-set-for-super-rugby-move\/"},"modified":"2012-10-27T20:06:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T18:06:31","slug":"rugby-japans-tanaka-set-for-super-rugby-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-japans-tanaka-set-for-super-rugby-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Japan&#8217;s Tanaka set for Super Rugby move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">TOKYO<\/span> Oct 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Japan&#8217;s Fumiaki Tanaka is set to become the first player from his country to compete in the southern hemisphere&#8217;s Super Rugby  competition next season for the Dunedin-based Highlanders.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tanaka&#8217;s Panasonic Wild Knights club said on Saturday that the 27-year-old scrumhalf would be joining the New Zealand team in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel so honoured to be becoming Japan&#8217;s first Super Rugby player,&#8221; said Takana. &#8220;I hope to improve at the higher levels of rugby and bring those skills back to Panasonic.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to play as many games as possible and show the world what Japanese rugby players are capable of. I want to believe there&#8217;s nothing I can&#8217;t accomplish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Alastair Himmer; Editing by Josh Reich)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO Oct 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Japan&#8217;s Fumiaki Tanaka is set to become the first player from his country to compete in the southern hemisphere&#8217;s Super Rugby competition next season for the Dunedin-based Highlanders. Tanaka&#8217;s Panasonic Wild Knights club said on Saturday that the 27-year-old scrumhalf would be joining the New Zealand team in 2013. &#8220;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-15933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}