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Full time16 June 2018
Japan
22–25
Italy
Noevir Stadium, Kobe, Japan · Tour 2018Head-to-head

Italy won by 3 points.

Scoring

  1. 20’TItaly try · Tommaso Benvenuti0–5
  2. 21’CItaly conversion · Tommaso Allan0–7
  3. 27’TItaly try · Leonardo Ghiraldini0–12
  4. 35’PJapan penalty · Yu Tamura3–12
  5. 45’TItaly try · Jake Polledri3–17
  6. 46’CItaly conversion · Tommaso Allan3–19
  7. 61’TJapan try · William Tupou8–19
  8. 62’CJapan conversion · Rikiya Matsuda10–19
  9. 66’TJapan try · Amanaki Mafi15–19
  10. 67’CJapan conversion · Rikiya Matsuda17–19
  11. 73’PItaly penalty · Tommaso Allan17–22
  12. 75’PItaly penalty · Tommaso Allan17–25
  13. 81’TJapan try · Kotaro Matsushima22–25

Line-ups

Japan

  1. 1Keita InagakiProp
  2. 2Shota HorieHooker
  3. 3Jiwon GuProp
  4. 4Wimpie van der WaltSecond row
  5. 5Samuela AniseSecond row
  6. 6Yoshitaka TokunagaFlanker
  7. 7Michael LeitchFlanker
  8. 8Kazuki HimenoNumber 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. 20Amanaki MafiBench
  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. 7Jake PolledriFlanker
  8. 8Braam SteynNumber 8
  9. 9Marcello VioliScrum-half
  10. 10Tommaso AllanFly-half
  11. 11Matteo MinozziWing
  12. 12Tommaso CastelloCentre
  13. 13Michele CampagnaroCentre
  14. 14Tommaso BenvenutiWing
  15. 15Jayden HaywardFull-back
  16. 16Luca BigiBench
  17. 17Cherif TraoreBench
  18. 18Simone FerrariBench
  19. 19Marco FuserBench
  20. 20Giovanni LicataBench
  21. 21Tito TebaldiBench
  22. 22Carlo CannaBench
  23. 23Giulio BisegniBench

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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

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.