TheBreakdown
Full time9 June 2018
Japan
34–17
Italy
Oita Stadium, Oita Prefecture, Japan · Tour 2018Head-to-head

Japan won by 17 points.

Scoring

  1. 16’TItaly try · Tiziano Pasquali0–5
  2. 17’CItaly conversion · Tommaso Allan0–7
  3. 18’TJapan try · Amanaki Mafi5–7
  4. 19’CJapan conversion · Yu Tamura7–7
  5. 28’TJapan try · Kenki Fukuoka12–7
  6. 29’CJapan conversion · Yu Tamura14–7
  7. 35’PJapan penalty · Yu Tamura17–7
  8. 37’TItaly try · Braam Steyn17–12
  9. 38’CItaly conversion · Tommaso Allan17–14
  10. 51’PItaly penalty · Tommaso Allan17–17
  11. 57’PJapan penalty · Yu Tamura20–17
  12. 61’TJapan try · Lomano Lemeki25–17
  13. 62’CJapan conversion · Yu Tamura27–17
  14. 67’TJapan try · Kotaro Matsushima32–17
  15. 68’CJapan conversion · Yu Tamura34–17

Line-ups

Japan

  1. 1Keita InagakiProp
  2. 2Shota HorieHooker
  3. 3Jiwon GuProp
  4. 4Wimpie van der WaltSecond row
  5. 5Samuela AniseSecond row
  6. 6Kazuki HimenoFlanker
  7. 7Michael LeitchFlanker
  8. 8Amanaki MafiNumber 8
  9. 9Fumiaki TanakaScrum-half
  10. 10Yu TamuraFly-half
  11. 11Kenki FukuokaWing
  12. 12Timothy LafaeleCentre
  13. 13William TupouCentre
  14. 14Lomano LemekiWing
  15. 15Kotaro MatsushimaFull-back
  16. 16Yusuke NiwaiBench
  17. 17Shintaro IshiharaBench
  18. 18Takuma AsaharaBench
  19. 19Uwe HeluBench
  20. 20Yoshitaka TokunagaBench
  21. 21Yutaka NagareBench
  22. 22Rikiya MatsudaBench
  23. 23Ryoto NakamuraBench

Italy

  1. 1Andrea LovottiProp
  2. 2Leonardo GhiraldiniHooker
  3. 3Tiziano PasqualiProp
  4. 4Alessandro ZanniSecond row
  5. 5Dean BuddSecond row
  6. 6Sebastian NegriFlanker
  7. 7Giovanni LicataFlanker
  8. 8Braam SteynNumber 8
  9. 9Marcello VioliScrum-half
  10. 10Tommaso AllanFly-half
  11. 11Mattia BelliniWing
  12. 12Tommaso CastelloCentre
  13. 13Michele CampagnaroCentre
  14. 14Tommaso BenvenutiWing
  15. 15Matteo MinozziFull-back
  16. 16Luca BigiBench
  17. 17Federico ZaniBench
  18. 18Giosue ZilocchiBench
  19. 19George BiagiBench
  20. 20Marco FuserBench
  21. 21Jake PolledriBench
  22. 22Tito TebaldiBench
  23. 23Jayden HaywardBench

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Context

All-time, Japan 3–8 Italy in 11 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Japan going in
Italy 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.