TheBreakdown
Full time17 June 2001
Japan
30–53
Wales
Prince Chichibu Memorial Stadium, Tokyo, Japan · Tour 2001Head-to-head

Wales won by 23 points.

Scoring

  1. 1’CJapan conversion · Toru Kurihara2–0
  2. 1’CJapan conversion · Toru Kurihara4–0
  3. 1’CJapan conversion · Kensuke Iwabuchi6–0
  4. 1’PJapan penalty · Toru Kurihara9–0
  5. 1’PJapan penalty · Toru Kurihara12–0
  6. 1’PJapan penalty · Toru Kurihara15–0
  7. 1’TJapan try · Koichi Kubo20–0
  8. 1’TJapan try · Terunori Masuho25–0
  9. 1’TJapan try · Hirotoki Onozawa30–0
  10. 1’CWales conversion · Stephen Jones30–2
  11. 1’CWales conversion · Stephen Jones30–4
  12. 1’TWales try · Shane Williams30–9
  13. 1’TWales try · Tom Shanklin30–14
  14. 1’TWales try · Tom Shanklin30–19
  15. 1’TWales try · Gareth Thomas30–24
  16. 1’TWales try · Gavin Thomas30–29
  17. 1’TWales try · Jamie Robinson30–34
  18. 17’TWales try · Gavin Thomas30–39
  19. 22’TWales try · Gareth Thomas30–44
  20. 23’CWales conversion · Stephen Jones30–46
  21. 27’CWales conversion · Stephen Jones30–48
  22. 27’TWales try · Gareth Thomas30–53

Line-ups

Japan

  1. 1Shin HasegawaProp
  2. 2Masaaki SakataHooker
  3. 3Masahiko ToyoyamaProp
  4. 4Luatangi Samurai VatuveiSecond row
  5. 5Hiroyuki TanumaSecond row
  6. 6Koichi KuboFlanker
  7. 7Kazuya KoizumiFlanker
  8. 8Yuya SaitoNumber 8
  9. 9Wataru MurataScrum-half
  10. 10Kensuke IwabuchiFly-half
  11. 11Terunori MasuhoWing
  12. 12Yukio MotokiCentre
  13. 13Hideki NambaCentre
  14. 14Toru KuriharaWing
  15. 15Hirotoki OnozawaFull-back
  16. 16Kenichi TakayangiBench
  17. 17Ryo YamamuraBench
  18. 18Jun AkuneBench
  19. 20Shinichi TsukdaBench
  20. 21Nataniela OtoBench
  21. 22Patiliai TuidrakiBench

Wales

  1. 1Iestyn ThomasProp
  2. 2ALP LewisHooker
  3. 3Chris AnthonyProp
  4. 4Craig QuinnellSecond row
  5. 5Andy MooreSecond row
  6. 6Nathan BudgettFlanker
  7. 7Gavin ThomasFlanker
  8. 8Geraint LewisNumber 8
  9. 9Gareth CooperScrum-half
  10. 10Stephen JonesFly-half
  11. 11Shane WilliamsWing
  12. 12Adrian DurstonCentre
  13. 13Gareth ThomasCentre
  14. 14Tom ShanklinWing
  15. 15Kevin MorganFull-back
  16. 16Steve JonesBench
  17. 17Ben EvansBench
  18. 18Chris StephensBench
  19. 19Jamie RingerBench
  20. 20Dwayne PeelBench
  21. 21Gavin HensonBench
  22. 22Jamie RobinsonBench

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Context

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

Japan going in
Wales 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.