TheBreakdown
Full time2 July 2011
Japan
15–34
Samoa
Prince Chichibu Memorial Stadium, Tokyo, Japan · World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup 2011Head-to-head

Samoa won by 19 points.

Scoring

  1. 3’TSamoa try · Tuilagi Alesana Tuilagi0–5
  2. 4’CSamoa conversion · James Sooialo0–7
  3. 13’PSamoa penalty · James Sooialo0–10
  4. 15’TSamoa try · Tuilagi Alesana Tuilagi0–15
  5. 16’CSamoa conversion · James Sooialo0–17
  6. 21’TJapan try · Ryu Koliniasi Holani5–17
  7. 33’PJapan penalty · Shaun Webb8–17
  8. 35’TSamoa try · Manaia Salavea8–22
  9. 37’CSamoa conversion · James Sooialo8–24
  10. 47’TJapan try · Takehisa Usuzuki13–24
  11. 48’CJapan conversion · Shaun Webb15–24
  12. 60’TSamoa try · George Pisi15–29
  13. 62’CSamoa conversion · James Sooialo15–31
  14. 66’PSamoa penalty · James Sooialo15–34

Line-ups

Japan

  1. 1Hisateru HirashimaProp
  2. 2Yusuke AokiHooker
  3. 3Kensuke HatakeyamaProp
  4. 4Toshizumi KitagawaSecond row
  5. 5Luke ThompsonSecond row
  6. 6Takashi KikutaniFlanker
  7. 7Tadasuke NishiharaFlanker
  8. 8Ryu Koliniasi HolaniNumber 8
  9. 9Fumiaki TanakaScrum-half
  10. 10Shaun WebbFly-half
  11. 11Takehisa UsuzukiWing
  12. 12Ryan NicholasCentre
  13. 13Yuta ImamuraCentre
  14. 14Kosuke EndoWing
  15. 15Goshi TachikawaFull-back
  16. 16Takeshi KizuBench
  17. 17Naoki KawamataBench
  18. 18Justin IvesBench
  19. 19Itaru TaniguchiBench
  20. 20Atsushi HiwasaBench
  21. 21Murray WilliamsBench
  22. 22Hirotoki OnozawaBench

Samoa

  1. 1Sakaria TaulafoProp
  2. 2Ti'i PauloHooker
  3. 3Anthony PereniseProp
  4. 4Daniel LeoSecond row
  5. 5Iosefa TekoriSecond row
  6. 6Ezra TaylorFlanker
  7. 7Manaia SalaveaFlanker
  8. 8Taiasina TuifuaNumber 8
  9. 9Lualua VailoaloaScrum-half
  10. 10Lemalu Tusiata PisiFly-half
  11. 11Tuilagi Alesana TuilagiWing
  12. 12Vaovasamanaia Seilala MapusuaCentre
  13. 13George PisiCentre
  14. 14Sailosi TagicakibauWing
  15. 15James SooialoFull-back
  16. 16Wayne Ole AveiBench
  17. 17Logovii MulipolaBench
  18. 18Filipo Lavea LeviBench
  19. 19Maurie FaasavaluBench
  20. 20Uale MaiBench
  21. 21Tasesa LaveaBench
  22. 22Timoteo IosuaBench

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Context

All-time, Japan 7–12 Samoa in 19 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Japan going in
Samoa going in

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Results to 27 September 2026. Scoring and line-ups come from World Rugby match summaries where available; older Tests may have neither.