'The first step': Japan's Ayumu Goromaru blazing a trail for Super Rugby's Reds

An overnight superstar at home, Ayumu Goromaru is putting Japanese rugby on the map in the early stages of his Super Rugby career with the Queensland RedsOn Ayumu Goromaru’s own account, until September 19 last year, the nation of Japan “didn’t even know about rugby itself”.Goromaru, playing in the country’s semi-professional rugby competition with Yamaha, was reportedly earning about the average annual Australian wage (A$80,000) working a day job in a 50 square metre office with 100 colleagues in the corporation’s communications department, a role that included leasing motorcycles to media. …