Scrum Diplomacy: How Women’s Rugby Became the Last Functioning International Forum
Tokyo—The sun is setting over the Prince Chichibu Memorial Stadium, and the only thing louder than the cicadas is the collective shriek of Wallaroos and Black Ferns colliding at full tilt. A few blocks away, salary-men shuffle past vending machines hawking canned coffee and existential dread, oblivious to the fact that women’s rugby—once the sporting…