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Autumn Nations Series 2025 · Principality Stadium, Cardiff · 15 November 2025Head-to-head
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Wales won by 1 point.Half-time 7–7 · Tries 3–2 · JPN 3 yellow cards

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28′44′48′56′66′83′61551606363138Attacks1642Ball won183314407080962124602819431%Own 2237%Own half45%Opp half68%Opp 22
Totals only: no positions in the feed
Tacklesmademissed
WAL21323
JPN12831
← Japan attack · Wales attack →Hover a try for detail · dots = tackles made · dashed = penalty goal · orange = missed · squares = rucks · triangles = line breaks and defenders beaten · rings = turnovers · bars at the foot = zone counts · thin lines = kicks from hand = attacking entries and ball won per band
  • Tackle positions are not in the feed for this match.
Tries and goal kicks as a table
MinTeamWhatScore
6′WalesTry, Daniel Edwards, converted5–0
15′JapanTry, Kippei Ishida, converted7–5
51′WalesTry, Louis Rees-Zammit, converted12–10
60′JapanTry, Faulua Makisi, converted14–18
63′WalesTry, Nick Tompkins, converted19–20
28′JapanPenalty goal missed
44′JapanPenalty goal missed
48′JapanPenalty goal scored
56′JapanPenalty goal scored
66′JapanPenalty goal scored
83′WalesPenalty goal scored
Sample dataTerritory shares are estimated, and tries without a recorded position are placed in the in-goal. Other positions are as logged by the match feed and approximate.

Score progression

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08152330HT0′20′40′60′80′1 WAL card · 3 JPN cards
6′Daniel Edwards15′Kippei Ishida51′Louis Rees-Zammit60′Faulua Makisi63′Nick Tompkins
WAL

Team stats

JPN
47%Possession53%
32%Territory68%
96Carries183
352Metres gained583
5Clean breaks7
31Defenders beaten23
170Passes227
4Offloads9
213Tackles made128
23Tackles missed31
77/78Rucks won122/125
14/17Lineouts won15/15
5/6Scrums won3/3
7/7Mauls won2/2
3Turnovers won5
11Penalties conceded10
31Kicks from hand40
906Kick metres942
Goal kicking
WAL conversions 3/3, penalties 1/1 · JPN conversions 2/2, penalties 3/5. Pale segment = set piece lost.

Match statistics and event positions come from World Rugby’s public match feed, which is unofficial and not licensed for reuse; TheBreakdown reduces them to the figures shown.

Line-ups

Wales

  1. 1Nicky SmithProp
  2. 2Dewi LakeHooker
  3. 3Archie GriffinProp
  4. 4Dafydd JenkinsSecond row
  5. 5Adam BeardSecond row
  6. 6Aaron WainwrightFlanker
  7. 7Alex MannFlanker
  8. 8Olly CracknellNumber 8
  9. 9Tomos WilliamsScrum-half
  10. 10Daniel EdwardsFly-half
  11. 11Josh AdamsWing
  12. 12Ben ThomasCentre
  13. 13Max LlewellynCentre
  14. 14Louis Rees-ZammitWing
  15. 15Blair MurrayFull-back
  16. 16Liam BelcherBench
  17. 17Rhys CarreBench
  18. 18Keiron AssirattiBench
  19. 19Freddie ThomasBench
  20. 20Taine PlumtreeBench
  21. 21Kieran HardyBench
  22. 22Jarrod EvansBench
  23. 23Nick TompkinsBench

Japan

  1. 1Kenta KobayashiProp
  2. 2Kenji SatoHooker
  3. 3Keijiro TamefusaProp
  4. 4Ratu Epineri UluivitiSecond row
  5. 5Warner DearnsSecond row
  6. 6Jack CornelsenFlanker
  7. 7Kanji ShimokawaFlanker
  8. 8Faulua MakisiNumber 8
  9. 9Naoto SaitoScrum-half
  10. 10Seungsin LeeFly-half
  11. 11Tomoki OsadaWing
  12. 12Charlie LawrenceCentre
  13. 13Dylan RileyCentre
  14. 14Kippei IshidaWing
  15. 15Yoshitaka YazakiFull-back
  16. 16Shodai HiraoBench
  17. 17Sho FuruhataBench
  18. 18Shuhei TakeuchiBench
  19. 19Harry HockingsBench
  20. 20Tyler PaulBench
  21. 21Kenta FukudaBench
  22. 22Shinya KomuraBench
  23. 23Kazuma UedaBench

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Context

All-time, Wales 15–2 Japan in 17 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Wales going in
Japan 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.