Itaru Taniguchi

Itaru Taniguchi (谷口到, Taniguchi Itaru) (born 1 October 1984 in Ibaraki, Japan) is a Japanese rugby union player. Taniguchi has played ten international matches for the Japan national rugby union team.^[1]

Taniguchi was a member of the Japan team at the 2011 Rugby World Cup where he played three matches for the Brave Blossoms.^[2]

Taniguchi currently plays for Top League team Kobe Steel Kobelco Steelers.^[3]

References

↑ "Itaru Taniguchi - Japan". ESPNscrum. ESPN Inc. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
↑ "RWC 2011 - Japan - Itaru Taniguchi". RWC 2011. International Rugby Board. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
↑ "Member profile 谷口到（タニグチ　イタル）" (in Japanese). Kobe Steel Kobelco Steelers. Retrieved 12 November 2013.

Japan squad – 2011 Rugby World Cup

Aoki Fujita Hatakeyama Hirashima Holani Horie Ives Kawamata Kikutani (c) Kitagawa Leitch Ono Taniguchi Thompson Vatuvei Yuhara Taufa Arlidge Endo Hiwasa Imamura Nicholas Onozawa Taira Tanaka Tupuailai Ueda Usuzuki Webb Williams Yoshida Coach Kirwan

Kobe Steel Kobelco Steelers squad

Forwards	Andries Bekker Daiki Hashimoto Hisateru Hirashima Shoji Ito Raiko Katsuki Takeshi Kizu Daisuke Maeda Shohei Maekawa Masayuki Murakami Kentaro Nagasaki Masahiko Nakagawa Yuta Nakano Kosuke Nishibayashi Hikaru Okubo Yuki Onishi Hiroya Sawai Yu Shimizu Takahiro Suzuki Itaru Taniguchi Isileli Vakauta Matt Vant Leven Hiroshi Yamashita Masanobu Yamauchi Matoki Yamazaki Yoshimitsu Yasue Ryuta Yasui

Backs	Fraser Anderson Nicholas Ealey Andrew Ellis Jaque Fourie Yusuke Hamashima Tsuyoshi Iguchi Yuta Imamura Naoya Minamihashi Kyohei Morita Kanzo Nakahama Sou Noda Yoshikazu Ohashi Ryang Jong-chu Takashi Sato Hirotomo Shimoji Kenji Shomen Hideki Tanabe Daijiro Tanaka Toni Vaihu Craig Wing Daisuke Yamamoto Ryohei Yamanaka Rakuhei Yamashita

Coach	Allister Coetzee

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