Fumiaki Tanaka
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is a Japanese rugby union footballer. He plays for the Panasonic Wild Knights in Japan's Top League
, and the Japanese rugby team. He plays for his country for the first time in the 2011 Rugby World Cup
in New Zealand
. He is currently the smallest player in this World Cup standing at 166 cm tall and weighing 75 kg.
Top League
The Top League is a professional rugby union league created by the Japan Rugby Football Union to drive up the overall standard and popularity of the sport in the country and improve the results of the Japan national rugby union team. The first season was 2003-04 and featured 12 teams...
, and the Japanese rugby team. He plays for his country for the first time in the 2011 Rugby World Cup
2011 Rugby World Cup
The 2011 Rugby World Cup was the seventh Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. The International Rugby Board selected New Zealand as the host country in preference to Japan and South Africa at a meeting in Dublin on 17 November 2005...
in New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
. He is currently the smallest player in this World Cup standing at 166 cm tall and weighing 75 kg.