Ginnosuke Tanaka
Ginnosuke Tanaka
Born	(1873-01-20)20 January 1873
Died	27 August 1933(1933-08-27) (aged 60)

Ginnosuke Tanaka (田中 銀之助, Tanaka Ginnosuke, 20 January 1873 – 27 August 1933) is credited with the introduction of rugby to Japan. He was educated at the Leys School in Cambridge and then Trinity Hall, a college of Cambridge University.^[1] He introduced rugby to students at Keio University, in 1899, with the help of Edward Bramwell Clarke. Later, he pursued a career in banking.

• Anglo-Japanese relations
• Japan national rugby union team
• Japan Rugby Football Union
• Kikuchi Dairoku
• Japanese students in Britain

• For the historical background see 'Britain's Contribution to the Development of Rugby Football in Japan 1874–1998' by Alison Nish, Chapter 27, Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits , Volume III, Japan Library, 1999 ISBN 1-873410-89-1
• Japanese Students at Cambridge University in the Meiji Era, 1868–1912: Pioneers for the Modernization of Japan, by Noboru Koyama, translated by Ian Ruxton, lulu.com, 2004. ISBN 1-4116-1256-6).