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Edward Bramwell Clarke
Professor Edward Bramwell Clarke (1875-1934) introduced rugby union to students at Keio University in Japan in 1899, with help from a fellow Cambridge University graduate named Tanaka Ginnosuke. Clarke wanted to give his students something constructive to do to avoid them idling and wasting "the lovely autumn weather", and rugby which he had enjoyed as a student was what he decided to pass on to them.
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