TheBreakdown
Full time8 July 2001
Japan
39–7
Canada
Prince Chichibu Memorial Stadium, Tokyo, Japan · Pacific Rim Championship 2001Head-to-head

Japan won by 32 points.

Scoring

  1. –CJapan conversion · Toru Kurihara2–0
  2. –CJapan conversion · Toru Kurihara4–0
  3. –CJapan conversion · Toru Kurihara6–0
  4. –CJapan conversion · Toru Kurihara8–0
  5. –PJapan penalty · Toru Kurihara11–0
  6. –PJapan penalty · Toru Kurihara14–0
  7. –TJapan try · Hideki Namba19–0
  8. –TJapan try · Yuya Saito24–0
  9. –TJapan try · Toru Kurihara29–0
  10. –TJapan try · Toru Kurihara34–0
  11. –TJapan try · Luatangi Samurai Vatuvei39–0
  12. –CCanada conversion · Bobby Ross39–2
  13. –TCanada try · Phil Murphy39–7

Line-ups

Japan

  1. 1Shin HasegawaProp
  2. 2Masaaki SakataHooker
  3. 3Kazu HamabeProp
  4. 4Luatangi Samurai VatuveiSecond row
  5. 5Hiroyuki TanumaSecond row
  6. 6Koichi KuboFlanker
  7. 7Takeomi ItoFlanker
  8. 8Yuya SaitoNumber 8
  9. 9Yuji SonodaScrum-half
  10. 10Shotaro OnishiFly-half
  11. 11Terunori MasuhoWing
  12. 12Yukio MotokiCentre
  13. 13Hideki NambaCentre
  14. 14Toru KuriharaWing
  15. 15Hirotoki OnozawaFull-back
  16. 16Kenichi TakayangiBench
  17. 17Masahiko ToyoyamaBench
  18. 18Jun AkuneBench
  19. 19Kazuya KoizumiBench
  20. 20Shinichi TsukdaBench
  21. 21Hideyuki YoshidaBench
  22. 22Takafumi HiraoBench

Canada

  1. 1Rod SnowProp
  2. 2Harry ToewsHooker
  3. 3Kevin WirachowskiProp
  4. 4Ed KnaggsSecond row
  5. 5Ron JohnstoneSecond row
  6. 6Brad MajorFlanker
  7. 7Colin YukesFlanker
  8. 8Phil MurphyNumber 8
  9. 9Morgan WilliamsScrum-half
  10. 10Bobby RossFly-half
  11. 11Sean FauthWing
  12. 12John CannonCentre
  13. 13Shane ThompsonCentre
  14. 14Jeremy CordleWing
  15. 15Jeff WilliamsFull-back
  16. 16Pat DunkleyBench
  17. 17Kevin TkachukBench
  18. 18Garth CookeBench
  19. 19Ryan BanksBench
  20. 20Ed FairhurstBench
  21. 21Mike DanskinBench
  22. 22Kyle NicholsBench

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Context

All-time, Japan 18–8 Canada, 2 drawn in 28 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Japan going in
Canada 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.