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Spared: Shiggy Kono

THE late and much lamented Shiggy Kono – a lifelong rugby tragic and a driving force behind Japanese rugby for nearly 50 years – is to be inducted posthumously in the Hall of Fame at the close of the World Cup which offers up an irresistible chance to recall how he survived World War 2, a story he often told at rugby functions.
The dashing young Shiggy – who had perfect English after being educated at Rokeby Prep School – was a passionate Anglophile but he was also a patriot and when Japan entered the war he volunteered and eventually found him...

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