Update:

Knives have been brandished against the U.S. Territory of Palau. T-minus 60 days before the entire island is to be purged of all 4 of their rugby with knives players.

luckily, as a part of the south seas mandate of the empire of japan, palau has the unconditional backing of the imperial japanese armed forces, who also has a thriving intersquad rugby with knives league