TheBreakdown
Full time15 April 1990
Japan
11–37
Samoa
Prince Chichibu Memorial Stadium, Tokyo, Japan · Men's Rugby World Cup Qualifying 1991Head-to-head

Samoa won by 26 points.

Scoring

  1. –PJapan penalty · Takahiro Hosokawa3–0
  2. –TJapan try · Yoshihito Yoshida7–0
  3. –TJapan try · Tsuyoshi Fujita11–0
  4. –CSamoa conversion · Andrew Aiolupo11–2
  5. –CSamoa conversion · Andrew Aiolupo11–4
  6. –CSamoa conversion · Andrew Aiolupo11–6
  7. –CSamoa conversion · Andrew Aiolupo11–8
  8. –CSamoa conversion · Andrew Aiolupo11–10
  9. –PSamoa penalty · Andrew Aiolupo11–13
  10. –TSamoa try · To'o Vaega11–17
  11. –TSamoa try · Timo Tagaloa11–21
  12. –TSamoa try · Tuala Sila Vaifale11–25
  13. –TSamoa try · Danny Kaleopa11–29
  14. –TSamoa try · Stan To'omalatai11–33
  15. –TSamoa try · Afa Le'u11–37

Line-ups

Japan

  1. 1Osamu OtaProp
  2. 2Tsuyoshi FujitaHooker
  3. 3Masanori TakuraProp
  4. 4Toshiyuki HayashiSecond row
  5. 5Atsushi OyagiSecond row
  6. 6Hiroyuki KajiharaFlanker
  7. 7Shuji NakashimaFlanker
  8. 8Sinali LatuNumber 8
  9. 9Haruhiro WatanabeScrum-half
  10. 10Katsuhiro MatsuoFly-half
  11. 11Yoshihito YoshidaWing
  12. 12Eiji KutsukiCentre
  13. 13Kojiro YoshinagaCentre
  14. 14Tadashi GodaWing
  15. 15Takahiro HosokawaFull-back
  16. 16Masahiro KundaBench
  17. 17Kazuaki TakahashiBench
  18. 18Ekeroma LuaiufiBench
  19. 19Masami HorikoshiBench
  20. 20Shinobu AokiBench
  21. 21Susumu FukuokaBench

Samoa

  1. 1Peter FatialofaProp
  2. 2Stan To'omalataiHooker
  3. 3Afa Le'uProp
  4. 4Peter LeavaiSecond row
  5. 5Peleiupu FuataiSecond row
  6. 6Tuala Sila VaifaleFlanker
  7. 7Danny KaleopaFlanker
  8. 8Harry SchusterNumber 8
  9. 9Milovale MokeScrum-half
  10. 10Filipo SaenaFly-half
  11. 11Tupo Fa'amasinoWing
  12. 12Keneti SioCentre
  13. 13To'o VaegaCentre
  14. 14Timo TagaloaWing
  15. 15Andrew AiolupoFull-back
  16. 16Vincent Fupulea'iBench
  17. 17John Ah KuoiBench
  18. 18Sanele TupuolaBench
  19. 19David SioBench
  20. 20Saini LemameaBench
  21. 21Filitoga LametaBench

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Context

All-time, Japan 7–12 Samoa in 19 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Japan going in
Samoa 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.