Tarnished beyond recognition, Eddie Jones's reputation as a rugby coaching guru can now perhaps only be resurrected in the country where they still remember him as a miracle worker.
A year and one week since being sacked as England coach, beginning a calamitous soap opera which left him derided all the way from Tasmania to Twickenham, the 63-year-old must prove back in Japan he still has something left to offer the global game.
But after being announced as the Brave Blossoms' coach for a second time on Wednesday, it will be no easy task for Jones to regain respect from the rugby world after being widely perceived to have left the Wallabies in the lurch while constantly denying any links to the Japan job.
