(born

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

, 24 August 1962) is a former Japanese rugby union player who played as a fullback.

Career

After graduating from Keio University,https://www.rugby-japan.jp/2015/05/29/cap_holder/代表キャップ保持者一覧 Murai started playing for Marubeni in the All-Japan Rugby Company Championship. His first international cap for

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

was in a match against

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, at Osaka, on 26 May 1985. Murai was also part of the

1987 Rugby World Cup The 1987 Rugby World Cup was the first Rugby World Cup. It was co-hosted by New Zealand and Australia – New Zealand hosted 21 matches (17 pool stage matches, two quarter-finals, the third-place play-off and the final) while Australia hosted 11 ...

squad, where he played only the match against

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, at Sydney, on 30 May 1987. In the same year, his last international cap was during a match against

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, at Tokyo, on 1 November 1987, earning 8 caps for Japan.

Notes

External links

ESPN Scrum Profile
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