TheBreakdown
Full time13 May 2001
Japan
27–19
Korea
Prince Chichibu Memorial Stadium, Tokyo, Japan · Asian Championship 2001Head-to-head

Japan won by 8 points.

Scoring

  1. –CJapan conversion · Toru Kurihara
  2. –PJapan penalty · Toru Kurihara
  3. –PJapan penalty · Toru Kurihara
  4. –PJapan penalty · Toru Kurihara
  5. –PJapan penalty · Toru Kurihara
  6. –PJapan penalty · Toru Kurihara
  7. –TJapan try · Terunori Masuho
  8. –TJapan try · Masahiko Toyoyama
  9. –PKorea penalty · Jae-Sung Kim
  10. –TKorea try · Hyung Ki Kim
  11. –TKorea try · Dong Ho Kang

The scoring record for this Test does not add up to the final score, so running scores are hidden.

Line-ups

Japan

  1. 1Kenichi TakayangiProp
  2. 2Yutaka TsujimotoHooker
  3. 3Masahiko ToyoyamaProp
  4. 4Luatangi Samurai VatuveiSecond row
  5. 5Hiroyuki TanumaSecond row
  6. 6Koichi KuboFlanker
  7. 7Eiji YamamotoFlanker
  8. 8Takeomi ItoNumber 8
  9. 9Shinichi TsukdaScrum-half
  10. 10Shotaro OnishiFly-half
  11. 11Terunori MasuhoWing
  12. 12Yasuharu UryuCentre
  13. 13Nataniela OtoCentre
  14. 14Toru KuriharaWing
  15. 15Tsutomu MatsudaFull-back
  16. 16Kazunaka MotoyoshiBench
  17. 18Jun AkuneBench
  18. 19Hajime KisoBench
  19. 20Ippei AsadaBench
  20. 21Kensuke IwabuchiBench
  21. 22Patiliai TuidrakiBench

Korea

  1. 1Jon-Heung KimProp
  2. 2Han Young HoonHooker
  3. 3In Sueng BaekProp
  4. 4Dong Ho KangSecond row
  5. 5Dong-Sun KimSecond row
  6. 6Sung-Su LimFlanker
  7. 7Chul Hyeung ChoFlanker
  8. 8Jin Bae ParkNumber 8
  9. 9Cheol-Kee NoScrum-half
  10. 10Jae-Sung KimFly-half
  11. 11Hyung Ki KimWing
  12. 12Chang-Min ParkCentre
  13. 13Jae-Hyun KimCentre
  14. 14Jin-Wook LeeWing
  15. 15Han Sik ChoiFull-back
  16. 16Woo Sik ShinBench
  17. 17Young-Geun KimBench
  18. 18Noh-Young ParkBench
  19. 19Kwang-Mo KimBench
  20. 20Hae-Kyung SungBench
  21. 21Young Joon ChoiBench
  22. 22Soo Song YoungBench

Match officials

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Context

All-time, Japan 33–7 Korea, 1 drawn in 41 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Japan going in
Korea 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.