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Full time21 August 2011
Japan
20–14
USA
Prince Chichibu Memorial Stadium, Tokyo, Japan · Men's Internationals 2011Head-to-head

Japan won by 6 points.

Scoring

  1. 7’TJapan try · Taihei Ueda5–0
  2. 9’TUSA try · Kevin Swiryn5–5
  3. 11’CUSA conversion · Valenese Malifa5–7
  4. 12’PJapan penalty · Ryan Nicholas8–7
  5. 40’TUSA try · Kevin Swiryn8–12
  6. 41’CUSA conversion · Valenese Malifa8–14
  7. 55’TJapan try · Takashi Kikutani13–14
  8. 56’CJapan conversion · Shaun Webb15–14
  9. 67’TJapan try · Takehisa Usuzuki20–14

Line-ups

Japan

  1. 1Naoki KawamataProp
  2. 2Yusuke AokiHooker
  3. 3Nozomu FujitaProp
  4. 4Hitoshi OnoSecond row
  5. 5Luke ThompsonSecond row
  6. 6Sione Talikavili VatuveiFlanker
  7. 7Tadasuke NishiharaFlanker
  8. 8Takashi KikutaniNumber 8
  9. 9Tomoki YoshidaScrum-half
  10. 10Murray WilliamsFly-half
  11. 11Hirotoki OnozawaWing
  12. 12Ryan NicholasCentre
  13. 13Alisi TupuailaiCentre
  14. 14Takehisa UsuzukiWing
  15. 15Taihei UedaFull-back
  16. 16Shota HorieBench
  17. 17Kensuke HatakeyamaBench
  18. 18Toshizumi KitagawaBench
  19. 19Itaru TaniguchiBench
  20. 20Atsushi HiwasaBench
  21. 21Koji TairaBench
  22. 22Shaun WebbBench

USA

  1. 1Mike MacDonaldProp
  2. 2Phil ThielHooker
  3. 3Eric FryProp
  4. 4Scott LaVallaSecond row
  5. 5Hayden SmithSecond row
  6. 6Pat DanahyFlanker
  7. 7Louis StanfillFlanker
  8. 8JJ GagianoNumber 8
  9. 9Mike PetriScrum-half
  10. 10Valenese MalifaFly-half
  11. 11James PatersonWing
  12. 12Paul EmerickCentre
  13. 13Tai EnosaCentre
  14. 14Kevin SwirynWing
  15. 15Blaine ScullyFull-back
  16. 16Chris BillerBench
  17. 17Shawn PittmanBench
  18. 18Nic JohnsonBench
  19. 19Ryan ChapmanBench
  20. 20Tim UsaszBench
  21. 21Roland SuniulaBench
  22. 22Andrew SuniulaBench

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Context

All-time, Japan 13–13 USA, 1 drawn in 27 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Japan going in
USA going in

Also on this day

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