Kamaishi Recovery Memorial Stadium

Kamaishi Recovery Memorial Stadium also known as Kamaishi Unosumai Stadium, is a stadium in Unosumai-cho, Kamaishi, Iwate. Construction on the 16,187-seat venue broke ground in April 2017 and it changed into completed on 19 August 2018. It is deliberate to host several video games all through the 2019 Rugby World Cup. The town of Kamaishi traditionally hosted one among Japan's maximum a hit rugby union golf equipment, Nippon Steel Kamaishi, which gained numerous country wide titles at some point of the Seventies and 1980s. The membership folded in 2001 and turned into changed by means of the Kamaishi Seawaves.

Kamaishi suffered main damage during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, leaving over 1,000 residents lifeless or missing, and adverse a massive part of the city. In 2014, the municipal government announced that it might bid to host part of the 2019 Rugby World Cup and construct a brand new stadium as part of the Unosumai region's post-disaster restoration. The stadium, to be positioned on the former site of colleges that were destroyed inside the tsunami, was named as certainly one of twelve venues selected in March 2015 by using World Rugby for the tournament. The three billion price of the stadium attracted criticism from citizens and observers, noting that the region turned into in want of rebuilt infrastructure.