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Ricoh Black Rams
リコーブラックラムズ
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Full name	Ricoh Black Rams
Union	Japan Rugby Football Union
Nickname(s)	Black Rams
Founded	1953
Location	Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Ground(s)	Various stadiums
Coach(es)	Damien Hill
League(s)	Top League
2019–20	8th
1st kit	2nd kit

Ricoh Black Rams is a Japanese rugby union team in the Top League. Placed 10th in the 2004-2005 season which meant it had to win a play-off against one of the top regional teams to stay in the league, as it did.

Slogan for 2006 season: TAFU ("Tough" in English). The acronym stands for Team, Aggression, Faith, Unity.

In January 2008 it was announced that Stephen Larkham will be joining the team next season, but the team was relegated back to the Japan East League where Larkham will begin his career in Japan. In April 2008 Todd Louden was announced as head coach, to be assisted by Pote Human (Daily Yomiuri, April 26, 2008).

Schedule/Results

2005

February 13. Ricoh Black Rams v Toyota Jido Shokki - placed third in the Top League Challenge Series.

Players

Current squad

The Ricoh Black Rams squad for the 2021 season is:^[1]

Ricoh Black Rams squad
Props Taichi Chiba Takao Makabe Kazuma Nishi Sotaro Okawa Daigo Sasagawa Kazuhiro Shibata Kenta Tsujii Hookers Ben Funnell Takei Hinata Kazuhiro Koike Yuki Mori Masashi Onishi Locks Daymon Leasuasu Josefa Logavatu Takeshi Mabuchi (c) Tatsuhiro Nagai Jacob Skeen Pohiva Yamato Lotoahea Daiki Yanagawa	Loose Forwards Colin Bourke Michael Broadhurst Elliot Dixon Amato Fakatava Talau Fakatava Shohei Fukumoto Yukawa Junpei Shuhei Matsuhashi Kazumi Oeltjen Scrum-halves Matt Lucas Masatoshi Nakamura Toshiya Takahashi Shota Yamamoto Ryuji Yonemura Fly-halves Toshiki Hamagishi Kohei Horigome Kosuke Kigami Matt McGahan	Centres Daisuke Hamano Ryohei Isoda Yuta Kurihara Aki Makita Joe Tomane Wingers Amanaki Lotoahea Yusuke Matsumoto Daisuke Nishikawa Netani Vakayalia Masaki Watanabe Tomoya Yamamura Toshiki Yamauchi Fullbacks Keagan Faria Isaac Lucas Takehiro Nakazawa Robbie Robinson Main Taira

(c) Denotes team captain, Bold denotes player is internationally capped