The 1998

ARFU Asian Rugby Championship The Asia Rugby Championship, or ARC, is an annual rugby union competition held amongst national rugby sides within the Asia Rugby region. The competition was originally known as the Asian Rugby Football Tournament when founded in 1969, and was call ...

was the 16th edition of the tournament, and was played in

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

. The 10 teams were divided in two division. Japan won the tournament.

Tournament

First division

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Second Division

Pool 1

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Pool 2

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Finals

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Bibliography

* Francesco Volpe, Paolo Pacitti (Author), ''Rugby 2000'', GTE Gruppo Editorale (1999).

References

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1998 rugby union tournaments for national teams

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