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Is the Six Nations Bigger than the Tri Nations?
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<blockquote data-quote="Prestwick" data-source="post: 105845"><p>Mate, the companies <em>run</em> the teams, not sponsor them. All the big corporates like Yamaha, Sanyo, Toyota, etc have whole <em>departments</em> where they manage their various sports teams. Even the foreign multinationals like Coca-cola or IBM have their own teams in Japan competing in diveball, rugby, etc.</p><p></p><p>The TOP LEAGUE in Japan is run by the corporations, not by the Union. It is something that would make Unions like the RFU or the NZRFU run in terror as the Union has very, very little control and is normally packed full of cronies from the Diet (the Japanese Parliament). The current president of the JRFU for example is an ex-Prime Minister.</p><p></p><p>The only sport which hasn't fallen completely to corporatism in Japan is baseball.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It is where you dismissed Wales, Scotland and Italy where actually they have contributed a lot to the vitality and variety of the European leagues. Just ask clubs from Munster to the Southwest of France!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prestwick, post: 105845"] Mate, the companies [i]run[/i] the teams, not sponsor them. All the big corporates like Yamaha, Sanyo, Toyota, etc have whole [i]departments[/i] where they manage their various sports teams. Even the foreign multinationals like Coca-cola or IBM have their own teams in Japan competing in diveball, rugby, etc. The TOP LEAGUE in Japan is run by the corporations, not by the Union. It is something that would make Unions like the RFU or the NZRFU run in terror as the Union has very, very little control and is normally packed full of cronies from the Diet (the Japanese Parliament). The current president of the JRFU for example is an ex-Prime Minister. The only sport which hasn't fallen completely to corporatism in Japan is baseball. It is where you dismissed Wales, Scotland and Italy where actually they have contributed a lot to the vitality and variety of the European leagues. Just ask clubs from Munster to the Southwest of France! [/QUOTE]
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