Riho Kurogi

Riho Kurogi (born 2 May 1998) is a Japanese rugby union player. She competed for at the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup. She represented Japan in the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Early career Kurogi played soccer in elementary school. She switched to rugby in her first year of junior high school at Hyuga Rugby School Junior.

Rugby career In 2015, she was selected for the Japanese women's fifteens team at the age of 17. Her side won the Asian Women's Championship for the first time.

She featured for in the Asia-Oceania regional qualification matches for the 2017 World Cup against and in 2016.

In July 2017, she was part of the team that successfully defended their Asian Championship title. She was eventually selected in 's squad to the Women's Rugby World Cup in Ireland.

She represented Japan in sevens at the 2019 Summer Universiade in Naples. She also competed in the Asian Women's Sevens Series a month later. Kurogi appeared for the side again in December during the Dubai leg of the 2019–20 World Series. However, she was injured in their match against New Zealand on Day 1 and was stretchered off in the first half. She was later called up to the main squad in July because of player injuries.