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Full time18 July 2015
Canada
6–20
Japan
Avaya Stadium, San Jose, California, United States · World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup 2015Head-to-head

Japan won by 14 points.

Scoring

  1. 6’PJapan penalty · Ayumu Goromaru0–3
  2. 14’TJapan try · Yoshikazu Fujita0–8
  3. 18’PCanada penalty · Gordon McRorie3–8
  4. 46’PJapan penalty · Ayumu Goromaru3–11
  5. 55’PJapan penalty · Ayumu Goromaru3–14
  6. 62’PCanada penalty · Gordon McRorie6–14
  7. 65’PJapan penalty · Ayumu Goromaru6–17
  8. 67’PJapan penalty · Ayumu Goromaru6–20

Line-ups

Canada

  1. 1Hubert BuydensProp
  2. 2Ray BarkwillHooker
  3. 3Doug WooldridgeProp
  4. 4Brett BeukeboomSecond row
  5. 5Jon PhelanSecond row
  6. 6Thyssen de GoedeFlanker
  7. 7Richard ThorpeFlanker
  8. 8Tyler ArdronNumber 8
  9. 9Gordon McRorieScrum-half
  10. 10Liam UnderwoodFly-half
  11. 11DTH Van Der MerweWing
  12. 12Connor BraidCentre
  13. 13Ciaran HearnCentre
  14. 14Jeff HasslerWing
  15. 15Matt EvansFull-back
  16. 16Aaron CarpenterBench
  17. 17Djustice Duru-SearsBench
  18. 18Andrew TiedemannBench
  19. 19Tyler HotsonBench
  20. 20Callum MorrisonBench
  21. 21Phil MackBench
  22. 22Nathan HirayamaBench
  23. 23Phil MackenzieBench

Japan

  1. 1Hisateru HirashimaProp
  2. 2Shota HorieHooker
  3. 3Hiroshi YamashitaProp
  4. 4Hitoshi OnoSecond row
  5. 5Luke ThompsonSecond row
  6. 6Justin IvesFlanker
  7. 7Michael BroadhurstFlanker
  8. 8Hayden HopgoodNumber 8
  9. 9Atsushi HiwasaScrum-half
  10. 10Harumichi TatekawaFly-half
  11. 11Kenki FukuokaWing
  12. 12Yu TamuraCentre
  13. 13Kotaro MatsushimaCentre
  14. 14Yoshikazu FujitaWing
  15. 15Ayumu GoromaruFull-back
  16. 16Keita InagakiBench
  17. 17Takeshi KizuBench
  18. 18Shinnosuke KakinagaBench
  19. 19Kazuhiko UsamiBench
  20. 20Tsuyoshi MurataBench
  21. 21Keisuke UchidaBench
  22. 22Toshiaki HiroseBench
  23. 23Tim BennettsBench

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Context

All-time, Canada 8–18 Japan, 2 drawn in 28 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Canada going in
Japan 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.