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]

References

Kobe Steel Kobelco Steelers squad

Forwards	Andries Bekker Daiki Hashimoto Hikaru Hashimoto Hisateru Hirashima Shoji Ito Jang Seok-hwan Raiko Katsuki Takeshi Kizu Daisuke Maeda Shohei Maekawa Kentaro Nagasaki Masahiko Nakagawa 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 Ryuta Yasui

Backs	Fraser Anderson Nicholas Ealey Andrew Ellis Jaque Fourie Yusuke Hamashima Shintaro Hayashi Tsuyoshi Iguchi Yuta Imamura Naoya Minamihashi Kanzo Nakahama Yoshikazu Ohashi Codey Rei Ryang Jong-chu Takashi Sato Hirotomo Shimoji Kenji Syomen Hideki Tanabe Daijiro Tanaka Kenta Tokuda Toni Vaihu Ryohei Yamanaka Rakuhei Yamashita

Coach	Jim McKay

Squads

Japan squad – 2011 Rugby World Cup

Forwards: Aoki Fujita Hatakeyama Hirashima Holani Horie Ives Kawamata Kikutani (c) Kitagawa Leitch Ono Taniguchi Thompson Vatuvei Yuhara Taufa

Backs: Arlidge Endo Hiwasa Imamura Nicholas Onozawa Taira Tanaka Tupuailai Ueda Usuzuki Webb Williams Yoshida

Coach: Kirwan

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