Four Bedeans play in the Kobe vs Ricoh match.

A total of 17 St Bede's Old Boys are currently playing top level rugby in Japan at corporate level. Starting with Michael Leitch, there is also Luke Thompson, Josh Mau , Nick Ealey,  Danny Peters, plus IRP players Shunsuke Nunomaki, Yoshikazu Fujita , Hirotomo Ono, Naoki Morita, Shinnosuke Kakinaga, Hiroki Yamamoto, Keisuke Sakamoto, Kenichiro Kuwae, Kengo Kitagawa, Satoshi Saita, Yuuki Mori and Highlanders player Elliot Dixon, who is there on a short-term contract. 

The span of years covered is from Yuuki Mori and Danny Peters in the 2003 1st XV to Kenichiro Kuwae in the 2012 1st XV.  There will be more to come. 

The four players in the photo are, from left to right: Yuuki Mori (2002), Nick Ealey (2006), Ryuhei Arita (2005) and Elliot Dixon (2006 & 2007).