• Japan: A New Tourist Hotspot?

    Japan is an island rich in culture, history and nature. Animé, sushi, technology, cherry blossom trees, Samurai and temples are just some aspects that have filtered through to a Western imagination of the country. The East Asian island hosts something for everyone, and in the last few years this...
  • A Crash Course in Japanese Cuisine

    KONNICHI WA, READER-SAN! Read on to find out about one of the world's favourite cuisines: Japanese. Don't worry, it's not all raw fish......
  • Sam Warburton Retires: Reflections on a Great Career

    On Wednesday morning, news broke that stunned the rugby world. The former Wales and Lions captain, Sam Warburton, announced his retirement at the age of just 29, citing the neck and shoulder injuries that had kept him out of action since the final test of the Lions tour to...
  • What now for England?

    Two days on from the humiliation that was England’s 33-13 defeat to Australia, which eliminated them from their home tournament at the first hurdle, the questions have now turned from part-inquest, part-obituary for Stuart Lancaster to assessing just where England go from here. To sack or not to sack?...
  • Japan beating South Africa: The biggest shock of recent times?

    Shocks like this were not supposed to happen in rugby. Maybe in football, but the scale of domination by the elite is just too great in rugby. Impact Sport has taken a look at the biggest sporting shocks and upsets of recent times, to see if Japan’s recent success...