TOKYO -- At a luxury hotel in Kyushu, a pair of sonorous voices singing "Kimigayo," the Japanese national anthem, echoed through the hallway.
Two members of Japan's national rugby team -- 30-year-old Pieter Labuschagne of South Africa and 26-year-old James Moore of Australia -- were struggling with the Japanese lyrics, which come from a poem roughly 1,000 years old.
