TheBreakdown
Full time13 July 1996
Canada
51–30
Japan
Thunderbird Stadium, Vancouver, Canada · Pacific Rim Championship 1996Head-to-head

Canada won by 21 points.

Scoring

  1. –CCanada conversion · Bobby Ross2–0
  2. –CCanada conversion · Bobby Ross4–0
  3. –CCanada conversion · Bobby Ross6–0
  4. –PCanada penalty · Bobby Ross9–0
  5. –PCanada penalty · Bobby Ross12–0
  6. –PCanada penalty · Bobby Ross15–0
  7. –PCanada penalty · Bobby Ross18–0
  8. –PCanada penalty · Bobby Ross21–0
  9. –TCanada try · John Graf26–0
  10. –TCanada try · Steve Gray31–0
  11. –TCanada try · Winston Stanley36–0
  12. –TCanada try · Bobby Ross41–0
  13. –TCanada try · Rod Snow46–0
  14. –TCanada try · John Hutchinson51–0
  15. –CJapan conversion · Wataru Murata51–2
  16. –CJapan conversion · Wataru Murata51–4
  17. –PJapan penalty · Wataru Murata51–7
  18. –PJapan penalty · Wataru Murata51–10
  19. –TJapan try · David Bickle51–15
  20. –TJapan try · Tsutomu Matsuda51–20
  21. –TJapan try · Hiroki Ozeki51–25
  22. –TJapan try · Osami Yatsuhashi51–30

Line-ups

Canada

  1. 1Rod SnowProp
  2. 2Mark CardinalHooker
  3. 3Eddie EvansProp
  4. 4Mike JamesSecond row
  5. 5Tony HealySecond row
  6. 6Al CharronFlanker
  7. 7John HutchinsonFlanker
  8. 8Colin McKenzieNumber 8
  9. 9Chris TynanScrum-half
  10. 10Bobby RossFly-half
  11. 11Steve GrayWing
  12. 12John GrafCentre
  13. 13Gareth ReesCentre
  14. 14Winston StanleyWing
  15. 15Scott StewartFull-back
  16. Shawn LyttonBench

Japan

  1. 1Toshikazu NakamichiProp
  2. 2Masaaki SakataHooker
  3. 3Kazu HamabeProp
  4. 4Kenji SatoSecond row
  5. 5David BickleSecond row
  6. 6Hiroyuki KajiharaFlanker
  7. 7Bruce FergusonFlanker
  8. 8Takeomi ItoNumber 8
  9. 9Wataru MurataScrum-half
  10. 10Yukio MotokiFly-half
  11. 11Terunori MasuhoWing
  12. 12Akira YoshidaCentre
  13. 13Osami YatsuhashiCentre
  14. 14Hiroki OzekiWing
  15. 15Tsutomu MatsudaFull-back
  16. 16Kiyoshi ImaizumiBench
  17. 17Yasunori WatanabeBench
  18. 18Yoji NagatomoBench
  19. 19Ko Izawa-NakamuraBench
  20. 20Shuji SimizuBench
  21. 21Kazuyuki MatsunoBench

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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

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.