TheBreakdown
Full time13 June 1998
USA
21–25
Japan
Matthew J. Boxer Stadium, Balboa Park, San Francisco, United States · Pacific Rim Championship 1998Head-to-head

Japan won by 4 points.

Scoring

  1. –CUSA conversion · Andre Bachelet2–0
  2. –PUSA penalty · Andre Bachelet5–0
  3. –PUSA penalty · Andre Bachelet8–0
  4. –PUSA penalty · Andre Bachelet11–0
  5. –TUSA try · Alatini Saulala16–0
  6. –TUSA try · Tom Billups21–0
  7. –CJapan conversion · Stephen Miln21–2
  8. –CJapan conversion · Keiji Hirose21–4
  9. –PJapan penalty · Stephen Miln21–7
  10. –PJapan penalty · Stephen Miln21–10
  11. –TJapan try · Patiliai Tuidraki21–15
  12. –TJapan try · Ross Thompson21–20
  13. –TJapan try · Keiji Hirose21–25

Line-ups

USA

  1. 1Chris LippertProp
  2. 2Tom BillupsHooker
  3. 3George SucherProp
  4. 4Luke GrossSecond row
  5. 5Dave HodgesSecond row
  6. 6Alec ParkerFlanker
  7. 7Fifita MoungaFlanker
  8. 8Rob LumkongNumber 8
  9. 9Andre BacheletScrum-half
  10. 10Vaea AnitoniFly-half
  11. 11CD LabountyWing
  12. 12Tomasi TakauCentre
  13. 13Alatini SaulalaCentre
  14. 14Jason RavenWing
  15. 15Dan KennedyFull-back
  16. Bart FurrowBench
  17. Kurt ShumanBench
  18. Jason WalkerBench

Japan

  1. 1Shin HasegawaProp
  2. 2Masahiro KundaHooker
  3. 3Naoto NakamuraProp
  4. 4Yoshihiko SakurabaSecond row
  5. 5Hiroyuki TamuraSecond row
  6. 6Rob GordonFlanker
  7. 7Greg SmithFlanker
  8. 8Ross ThompsonNumber 8
  9. 9Wataru MurataScrum-half
  10. 10Stephen MilnFly-half
  11. 11Patiliai TuidrakiWing
  12. 12Yukio MotokiCentre
  13. 13Osami YatsuhashiCentre
  14. 14Terunori MasuhoWing
  15. 15Tsutomu MatsudaFull-back
  16. 17Keiji HiroseBench
  17. 19Takeomi ItoBench

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Context

All-time, USA 13–13 Japan, 1 drawn in 27 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

USA going in
Japan 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.