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Rugby Articles

Some photos from my experience at the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan

Historical, Cultural, and Tourism Articles

Some photos from the experiences related to these articles

Photo Archive from meetings and interviews conducted for the writing of the book "Uomini d'Italia"

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Rugby Articles

LIVE match reports, press conferences, interviews, insights, and coverage of rugby culture and structure in Japan

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Some photos from my experience at the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan

2019 Rugby Awards with World Cup champions Erasmus and Kolisi

Accredited media pass – 2019 Rugby World Cup

Rugby Awards Tokyo 2019 – media pass

Some match tickets from the 2019 Rugby World Cup

With Welsh international rugby referee Nigel Owens

With Eben Etzebeth, the South African giant, RWC Champion in 2019 and 2023

With Faf de Klerk, South Africa’s scrum-half, RWC Champion in 2019 and 2023

With Cheslin Kolbe, unstoppable South African winger, RWC Champion in 2019 and 2023

Emily Scarratt – Women’s 15s Player of the Year 2019

Pieter-Steph du Toit – Men’s 15s Player of the Year 2019 and 2024

Erasmus and Kolisi at a press conference

With All Black TJ Perenara, 2015 Rugby World Cup Champion

Women in kimono at the Awards

With former All Blacks head coach Graham Henry

Richie McCaw, All Blacks legend – World Cup winner in 2011 and 2015, Player of the Year in 2006, 2009, and 2010

The Springboks, newly crowned Rugby World Champions 2019, arriving at the Awards ceremony

With England head coach Eddie Jones

Thierry Dusautoir, former France captain and Men’s 15s Rugby Player of the Year 2011

With Springboks legend Francois Pienaar, 1995 World Cup Champion

Interviews from Japan’s training session

With Shane Williams, the Welsh wizard – Men’s 15s Rugby Player of the Year 2008

Lappies Labuschagné, Japan’s flanker

All Blacks press conference with Hansen and Read

Yū Tamura, Japan’s fly-half

Jamie Joseph and captain Michael Leitch during a Japan press conference

Conor O’Shea and Sergio Parisse during an Italy press conference

Warren Gatland and Alun Wyn Jones during a Wales press conference

A bit of rugby fan folklore

With enthusiastic Japanese fans

At work in the press box

CJ Stander, Irish number eight

Stuart Hogg, Scottish fullback

Beauden Barrett, New Zealand fullback – 2015 World Cup champion and Men’s 15s Player of the Year in 2016 and 2017

Damian de Allende, South African centre – World Cup champion 2019 and 2023

Malcolm Marx, South African hooker – World Cup champion in 2019 and 2023

Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand centre – World Cup champion 2011 and 2015

Willie le Roux, South African fullback – World Cup champion in 2019 and 2023

With Juan Martín Hernández, former Argentine fly-half and current pundit

With “Angelo,” the Italrugby mascot

With the William Webb Ellis Cup

The gold medal of South African Frans Malherbe

South Africa’s press conference after winning the final

South Africa’s players praying in a circle after the final victory

Gala dinner at the Awards

The final from the press box

Ross Moriarty, Welsh flanker

Jonny Wilkinson and Bryan Habana at a Land Rover event

All Land Rover ambassadors present at the event: O'Driscoll, Greenwood, Wilkinson, Dallaglio, Habana, Marshall, Gregan and Yachvili

With Brian O’Driscoll, the Irish rugby legend

With Lawrence Dallaglio, Former England number eight and 2003 World Cup champion

With Jonny Wilkinson, English rugby hero – 2003 World Cup champion and Men’s 15s Player of the Year 2003

With George Gregan, former Australian scrum-half and 1999 World Cup champion

Billy Vunipola, England number eight

Maro Itoje, England lock

England entering the Mixed Zone for interviews

With a Japanese fan dressed as a samurai

Young and enthusiastic Japanese fans

Michael Leitch, captain of Japan

Historical, Cultural, and Tourism Articles

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Some photos from the experiences related to these articles

Monte Ortigara, 2093 m: Italian Front – World War 1

Monte Ortigara: commemorative column from the Great War on the Italian Front: (“Per non dimenticare”) “Lest we forget”

World War 1: trenches on Monte Grappa, a mountain sacred to the nation

Monte Grappa: commemorative plaque of the Austrian advance being halted and Col Moschin recaptured by the 9th Assault Unit "Arditi"

Monte Pasubio: remains of a Carcano 91 rifle, magazine, bayonet, and artillery fragment

Magazine from a Carcano Mod. 91 rifle, found on Monte Pasubio

Monte Cengio, Asiago Plateau: Italian observation post

Monte Zovetto, Asiago Plateau: Italian military tunnel used as a shelter and connection to the front line

Position of the 13th Italian Battery’s third gun, in an artillery post on the Asiago Plateau

Ernest Hemingway, American Red Cross volunteer in 1918. Photo displayed at Villa Ca' Erizzo Luca, Bassano del Grappa

Traces of shelling on Monte Pertica (Grappa Massif)

Italian trench carved into the rock of Monte Grappa

View of the Monte Grappa Military Memorial, located at Cima Grappa

Gravestone of soldier Filippo Neri, one of the “Ragazzi del ’99,” fallen and buried on Monte Grappa during World War 1

Italian artillery position on the Asiago Plateau

Snow Monsters in Zao, Japan – trees completely covered in snow, resembling an army of frozen creatures

Small Shinto shrine in Shiroishi, Japan

Reenactment of the Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima in Fuefuki, Japan: Uesugi clan samurai charging

Reenactment of the Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima in Fuefuki: Takeda clan samurai before the battle

Me dressed as a Uesugi clan samurai at the Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima reenactment

Katana cutting test at master Matsunaga’s forge in Arao, Japan

Master Matsunaga forging a new katana in his forge in Arao, Japan

Controversial Yasukuni Shinto Shrine in Tokyo: commemorates all Japanese war dead since 1867

Display of antique katana swords at the Yushukan Museum in Tokyo

Next to the iconic Mitsubishi A6M “Zero” on display at the Yushukan Museum, Tokyo

Prayer and ceremonial offerings in front of the memorial statue to kamikaze pilots, Yushukan Museum – Tokyo

Mitama Matsuri at Yasukuni Shrine: lanterns and traditional Japanese clothing

Photo Archive from meetings and interviews conducted for the writing of the book "Uomini d'Italia"

With World War 2 Italian veteran Battista Lino Alberti at the April 25th, 2016 celebrations in Brescia

With Battista Lino Alberti during one of our interviews at Laghetto di Buffalora (BS)

Plaque in honor of Battista Lino Alberti, “the soldier who never gave up,” Italian veteran of El Alamein

With Giulio Turelli, Italian alpine soldier veteran of World War 2

During one of the interviews with Giulio Turelli

Giulio Turelli, Italian alpine soldier on the Greek-Albanian front in World War 2, 1941

In 1916, Giulio Turelli (right), age two, posing with his brother and the photo of their uncle Leone who died in World War 1

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