TheBreakdown
Full time18 September 1977
Japan
9–74
Scotland
National Kasumigaoka Stadium, Tokyo, Japan · Tour 1977Head-to-head

Scotland won by 65 points.

Scoring

  1. –CJapan conversion · Nobufumi Tanaka2–0
  2. –PJapan penalty · Yuji Matsuo5–0
  3. –TJapan try · Hirotaka Ujino9–0
  4. –CScotland conversion · Colin Mair9–2
  5. –CScotland conversion · Colin Mair9–4
  6. –CScotland conversion · Colin Mair9–6
  7. –CScotland conversion · Colin Mair9–8
  8. –CScotland conversion · Colin Mair9–10
  9. –CScotland conversion · Colin Mair9–12
  10. –CScotland conversion · Colin Mair9–14
  11. –CScotland conversion · Colin Mair9–16
  12. –CScotland conversion · Colin Mair9–18
  13. –PScotland penalty · Colin Mair9–21
  14. –PScotland penalty · Colin Mair9–24
  15. –PScotland penalty · Colin Mair9–27
  16. –PScotland penalty · Colin Mair9–30
  17. –TScotland try · Bill Gammell9–34
  18. –TScotland try · Bill Gammell9–38
  19. –TScotland try · Bill Gammell9–42
  20. –TScotland try · Bill Gammell9–46
  21. –TScotland try · Alistair Cranston9–50
  22. –TScotland try · Ronald Wilson9–54
  23. –TScotland try · Roy Laidlaw9–58
  24. –TScotland try · Roy Laidlaw9–62
  25. –TScotland try · Gordon Dickson9–66
  26. –TScotland try · Rob Moffat9–70
  27. –TScotland try · Gerry McGuinness9–74

Line-ups

Japan

  1. 1Takeshi HatakeyamaProp
  2. 2Tsukasa TakataHooker
  3. 3Toshiaki YasuiProp
  4. 4Naoshi KumagaiSecond row
  5. 5Kenzou SagawaSecond row
  6. 6Hideo AkamaFlanker
  7. 7Ichiro KobayashiFlanker
  8. 8Hiroshi OgasawaraNumber 8
  9. 9Junya MatsumotoScrum-half
  10. 10Yuji MatsuoFly-half
  11. 11Hirotaka UjinoWing
  12. 12Masao YoshidaCentre
  13. 13Masaru FujiwaraCentre
  14. 14Shigetaka MoriWing
  15. 15Nobufumi TanakaFull-back
  16. 16Manabu SasadaBench
  17. 17Hiroyuki KodamaBench
  18. 18Kyoichi ToyoyamaBench
  19. 19Shigekazu HoshinoBench
  20. 20Yoichiro MinamikawaBench
  21. 21Testuro YajimaBench

Scotland

  1. 1Ian McLauchlanProp
  2. 2Colin DeansHooker
  3. 3Bob CunninghamProp
  4. 4Ian BarnesSecond row
  5. 5Alan TomesSecond row
  6. 6Mike BiggarFlanker
  7. 7Gordon DicksonFlanker
  8. 8Donald MacdonaldNumber 8
  9. 9Roy LaidlawScrum-half
  10. 10Ronald WilsonFly-half
  11. 11Lewis DickWing
  12. 12Alistair CranstonCentre
  13. 13Jim RenwickCentre
  14. 14Bill GammellWing
  15. 15Colin MairFull-back
  16. 16Malcolm HurstBench
  17. 17John BerthinussenBench
  18. 18Nairn MacEwanBench
  19. 19Rob MoffatBench
  20. 20Keith RobertsonBench
  21. 21John RutherfordBench
  22. 22Gerry McGuinnessBench

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Context

All-time, Japan 2–11 Scotland in 13 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Japan going in
Scotland 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.