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Green Rockets Tokatsu
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NEC Green Rockets Tokatsu (formerly NEC Green Rockets) is a Japanese rugby union team in the Japan Rugby League One. The team's captain is Ryota Asano. The previous captain was Takuro Miuchi, who was also the captain of the Japan national rugby union team. Before the semi-professional Top League was created, the team was just known as "NEC". The amateur club was founded in 1985 in the Kantō region.

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NEC Green Rockets won the All-Japan Championship final for the second time on 27 February 2005, beating Toyota Verblitz 17-13. They drew 6-6 with Toshiba Brave Lupus in the 43rd Japan Championship final on 26 February 2006 after an effective defensive effort and the sin-binning of Glen Marsh in the last ten minutes of the game.

The team rebranded as Green Rockets Tokatsu ahead of the rebranding of the Top League to the Japan Rugby League One in 2022.[1]

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Honours

Current squad

The Green Rockets Tokatsu for the 2025-26 season is:[2]

Green Rockets Tokatsu squad

Props

  • Japan Keita Kimura
  • Japan Sunao Takizawa
  • Japan Keisuke Kikuta
  • Japan Taku Toma
  • Japan Shotaro Kameyama
  • Tonga Suliasi Tolu*
  • South Korea Hwang Se-ra*
  • Australia Phransis Sula-Siaosi

Hookers

  • Japan Keita Kobayashi
  • Japan Ren Osawa
  • Japan Shunya Hamano
  • Japan Kosuke Shimoe

Locks

Flankers

  • Australia Timote Tavalea*
  • New Zealand Frank Lochore
  • Japan Ryoi Kamei
  • Japan Tatsuru Owada
  • Japan Yuta Moriyama
  • Japan Asahi Uchikawa
  • South Africa Dylan Nel

No8s

Scrum-halves

Fly-halves

Centres

  • New Zealand Orbyn Leger*
  • Japan Koichi Matsura
  • Japan Masaki Obata
  • Japan Ryosei Takai
  • Tonga Christian Laui*
  • Japan Ryuto Fukuyama

Wingers

Fullbacks

  • France Nathan Dagoury DEP

Utility Backs

(c) Denotes team captain, Bold denotes player is internationally capped
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Former players

References

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