“The Kyushu Rugby Football Union was the Kyushu branch of the Seibu Rugby Football Union before the war. The Kyushu branch went through a heated discussion until it was finally accepted as the Kyushu Rugby Football Union in both name and reality. When Taro Yamamoto participated in a meeting held in the middle of August 1946 as the only participant from the Kyushu area, he explained the actual conditions and circumstances of rugby in Kyushu. His eloquent and logical speech helped a lot to win broad support from various parties, including Chairman Kumazo Tanabe and Senior Director Ban Kayama. The Kyushu branch then successfully won independence from the Seibu Rugby Football Union. Through this process, Japanese rugby came to have rugby football unions in three regions, Kanto, Kansai, and Kyushu, just as if it were like Britain having England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland. The Kyushu Rugby Football Union was officially established in September 1947.” (Source: “The History of Kyushu Rugby”)