TheBreakdown
Full time19 May 2002
Japan
59–19
Russia
National Kasumigaoka Stadium, Tokyo, JapanHead-to-head

Japan won by 40 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. –CJapan conversion · Toru Kurihara10–0
  6. –CJapan conversion · Toru Kurihara12–0
  7. –PJapan penalty · Toru Kurihara15–0
  8. –PJapan penalty · Toru Kurihara18–0
  9. –PJapan penalty · Toru Kurihara21–0
  10. –PJapan penalty · Toru Kurihara24–0
  11. –TJapan try · Hirotoki Onozawa29–0
  12. –TJapan try · Daisuke Ohata34–0
  13. –TJapan try · Toru Kurihara39–0
  14. –TJapan try · Andy Miller44–0
  15. –TJapan try · Luatangi Samurai Vatuvei49–0
  16. –TJapan try · Masahiko Toyoyama54–0
  17. –TJapan try · Wataru Murata59–0
  18. –CRussia conversion · Vladimir Simonov59–2
  19. –CRussia conversion · Werner Pieterse59–4
  20. –TRussia try · Vyacheslav Zykov59–9
  21. –TRussia try · Vyacheslav Grachev59–14
  22. –TRussia try · Sergey Sergeev59–19

Line-ups

Japan

  1. 1Yuichi HisadomiProp
  2. 2Masaaki SakataHooker
  3. 3Masahiko ToyoyamaProp
  4. 4Koichi KuboSecond row
  5. 5Luatangi Samurai VatuveiSecond row
  6. 6Naoya OkuboFlanker
  7. 7Takuro MiuchiFlanker
  8. 8Yuya SaitoNumber 8
  9. 9Yuji SonodaScrum-half
  10. 10Andy MillerFly-half
  11. 11Toru KuriharaWing
  12. 12Yukio MotokiCentre
  13. 13Hideki NambaCentre
  14. 14Daisuke OhataWing
  15. 15Hirotoki OnozawaFull-back
  16. 16Masahito YamamotoBench
  17. 17Masahiro ShichinoheBench
  18. 18Adam ParkerBench
  19. 19Takeomi ItoBench
  20. 20Wataru MurataBench
  21. 21Soshi FuchigamiBench
  22. 22Ryohei MikiBench

Russia

  1. 1Oleg ShukaylovProp
  2. 2Roman RomakHooker
  3. 3Johan HendriksProp
  4. 4Rashid SagdeevSecond row
  5. 5Sergey SergeevSecond row
  6. 6Renier 'Bloues' VolschenkFlanker
  7. 7Vyacheslav GrachevFlanker
  8. 8Vyacheslav ZykovNumber 8
  9. 9Victor MotorinScrum-half
  10. 10Werner PieterseFly-half
  11. 11Andrey KuzinWing
  12. 12Alexey KorobeynikovCentre
  13. 13Vladimir SimonovCentre
  14. 14Igor DymchenkoWing
  15. 15Alexander ZakarlyukFull-back
  16. 16Igor NikolaychukBench
  17. 17Alexey TravkinBench
  18. 18Alexander KhrokinBench
  19. 19Roman ShelepkovBench
  20. 20Igor BudnikovBench
  21. 21Oleg ZhukovBench
  22. 22Andrey ChupinBench

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Context

All-time, Japan 6–1 Russia in 7 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Japan going in
Russia 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.