http://rugbyreferee.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/rejected-nz-rugby-ref-considers-japan-move/

Our New Zealand comrades think Ste Walsh might be Japan bound. Seems he and his NZRFU employers have fallen out. Shame, I always liked his laid back style, if not some of his approaches.

Maybe the Japan RFU might get an IRB ref after all!