Koliniasi Holani

Koliniasi Holani is one of those guys where the name alone tells you there's a whole story behind it — a South Pacific cadence fused with the kanji character for "dragon," which feels less like a coincidence and more like a mission statement. Born in 1981, a Scorpio with rugby in his bones, he came up through Saitama Institute of Technology at a time when players of Fijian and Tongan heritage were becoming a real force in Japanese rugby rather than a novelty. I don't have a highlight reel to point to, but that's kind of the thing about the guys who grind in the trenches of the sport — the work speaks through physicality, not through headlines. Choosing to build a rugby career in Japan with that background takes a specific kind of resolve, and I respect that quietly stubborn energy a lot.

Koliniasi Holani (born October 25, 1981, in Japan) is a rugby union player whose full name combines a Pacific Islander given name with the Japanese character for "dragon." He attended Saitama Institute of Technology, where he developed his rugby career. He belongs to the generation of players with Fijian or Tongan-rooted backgrounds who became part of the Japanese rugby scene. Most personal and career details remain private or unrecorded in public sources.

Name (English)

Koliniasi Holani

Name (Japanese)

ホラニ龍コリニアシ

Reading

ほらに りゅうこりにあし

Born

October 25, 1981 (age 44)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rooster

Origin

Japan

Occupation

Rugby union player

University

Saitama Institute of Technology

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9B%E3%83%A9%E3%83%8B%E9%BE%8D%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B7

Tags

• Rugby union player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.