Wasana Fukushima

Wasana Fukushima

Born	(1996-01-07) 7 January 1996 (age 29)
Height	165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	65 kg (143 lb; 10 st 3 lb)
Rugby union career
Position Fly-half Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) Tokyo Sankyu Phoenix International career Years Team Apps (Points) Japan National sevens team Years Team Comps 2014– Japan 7s

Wasana Fukushima (born 7 January 1996) is a Japanese rugby union player. She competed for Japan at the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup.

Career

Fukushima started playing rugby at the age of five.

On February 2014, she made her international debut for the Japanese women's sevens team during the 2013–14 Sevens World Series. ^[1] She then graduated from Iwami Chisuikan High School, and entered Otemon Gakuin University. ^[1]

In June 2014, she ruptured her anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee and was forced to leave the sevens team. ^[1] She returned to the side in March 2015. ^[1]

In 2017, she was selected for Japan's fifteens squad to the Women's Rugby World Cup in Ireland. ^{[2] [3]} She was injured during the tournament and returned to Japan early. ^[3]

Fukushima graduated from Otemon Gakuin University in 2018, she then joined Toppan.

References

1. 謙太郎, 橋本 (2015-07-31). "【ラガール通信】１９歳・福島わさなが完全復活 ７人制代表「サクラセブンズ」司令塔争いに名乗り". 産経新聞：産経ニュース (in Japanese). Retrieved 2026-01-02.
2. "Top Eight The Goal For Determined Japan | Women's Rugby World Cup". Asia Rugby. 2017-08-01. Retrieved 2026-01-02.
3. Ealey, Mark (2017-09-27). "Female rugby players performing at the top level". Burnside High School. Retrieved 2026-01-02.