The Breakdown | World Cup can remind rugby of its responsibility to game’s collective will

Japan has embraced the sport despite little knowledge and the major unions have a duty to help tier-two nations strengthenThe way Japan has embraced the World Cup and a sport that otherwise attracts little attention is visible wherever a match is staged. The manager at a hotel in Toyota on Monday, bedecked in the kit of the host nation, admitted he knew nothing about the oval code but felt he had a duty to support the event. And so that night the streets of downtown Toyota were crowded with locals wearing Wales jerseys and supporting them against Georgia with the same fervour of those who have…