Kanta Higashionna

Kanta Higashionna
Personal information
Born	(1992-11-26) 26 November 1992 Okinawa, Japan
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	114 kg (17 st 13 lb)
School(s) attended	Nago High School
University	Teikyo University
Club information
Playing position	Prop
Current club	Canon Eagles
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Pts)^†
2015−	Canon Eagles	17	(0)
Representative team(s)^‡
2016−	Japan	4	(0)
* Senior club appearances and points correct as of 27 November 2016. † Appearances (Points). ‡ Representative team caps and points correct as of 27 November 2016.

Kanta Higashionna (東恩納寛太, Higashionna Kanta, born 26 November 1992) is a Japanese international rugby union player who plays as a prop.^[1] He currently plays for the Canon Eagles in Japan's domestic Top League.^[2]^[3]

Club Career

After graduating from university, Higashionna signed for the Canon Eagles ahead of the 2015 Top League season. He started 4 times and make 4 substitute appearances in his rookie year. In 2016 he firmly established himself as a regular in the starting XV, starting all 9 of Canon's games prior to the mid-season break for the November internationals.^[4]

International

A strong showing in his first Top League season saw Higashionna earn his first cap for Japan during the 2016 Asia Rugby Championship. He debuted in an 85-0 win against South Korea on 30 April 2016. The following week he made his first start at international level in a victory away to Hong Kong.

After earning 3 caps during the Asian Rugby Championship, Higashionna made his first appearance against non-Asian opposition during the 2016 end-of-year rugby union internationals. Called up as an injury replacement midway through the tour, he made 1 appearance as a second-half replacement in the 38-25 defeat to Fiji on 26 November 2016.^[1]

References

1 2 "Kanta Higashionna ESPN Scrum Player Profile". ESPN. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
↑ "Kanta Higashionna Top League Player Profile" (in Japanese). Top League. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
↑ "Kanta Higashionna Canon Eagles Player Profile" (in Japanese). Canon Eagles. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
↑ "Kanta Higashionna itsrugby Player Statistics". itsrugby. Retrieved 27 November 2016.

Canon Eagles squad

Forwards	Samuela Anise Yuho Ashiya Fotu Auelua Kane Falconer Suguru Hidaka Kanta Higashionna Sugura Igarashi Akira Jo Daisuke Kaneko Takashi Kikutani Murphy Leilua Yusuke Niwai Yusuke Ochiai Naoto Shimada Naoshi Shimizu Shinya Shimizu Topui Sekona Takatoshi Sugawara Ryouta Suginaga Shinobu Takashima Corey Thomas Adam Thomson Satoshi Ueda Muneyuki Uematsu Kazuhiko Usami Yasuo Yamaji Mitsugu Yamamoto Shohei Yuzawa

Backs	Toshiki Amano Koki Arai Tim Bennetts Michael Bond Kojiro Fujichika Kenyuh Fujimoto Takeru Fukui Tokiro Harada Kosuke Hashino Taisei Hayashi Richard Havili Kaufusi Willie le Roux Ryohei Mitomo Naoki Moriya Yuya Noguchi Hirotoki Onozawa JC Roos Amanaki Saumaki Masaru Sugaya Ryota Takagi Tetsu Uehara Taku Wada

Coach	Yoji Nagatomo

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