All Blacks coach Steve Hansen is set to become Japanese rugby club Toyota Verblitz's director of rugby, according to reports from Australia.
Sydney's Daily Telegraph has reported that Hansen will join All Blacks captain Kieran Read at the Japanese team following the World Cup.
The report suggests Waratahs assistant coach Simon Cron could be lined up as Toyota's coach.
The side's currently being guided by Jake White who mentored South Africa to the 2007 World Cup.
Cron, who is off-contract at the end of this season at NSW, is a man in demand.