TheBreakdown
Full time4 July 2001
Japan
8–47
Samoa
Tokyo Stadium, Tokyo, Japan · Pacific Rim Championship 2001Head-to-head

Samoa won by 39 points.

Scoring

  1. –PJapan penalty · Toru Kurihara3–0
  2. –TJapan try · Hirotoki Onozawa8–0
  3. –CSamoa conversion · Earl Va'a8–2
  4. –CSamoa conversion · Earl Va'a8–4
  5. –CSamoa conversion · Earl Va'a8–6
  6. –CSamoa conversion · Earl Va'a8–8
  7. –CSamoa conversion · Earl Va'a8–10
  8. –CSamoa conversion · Earl Va'a8–12
  9. –TSamoa try · Tanner Vili8–17
  10. –TSamoa try · Elvis Sevealii8–22
  11. –TSamoa try · Elvis Sevealii8–27
  12. –TSamoa try · Terry Fanolua8–32
  13. –TSamoa try · Afato So'oialo8–37
  14. –TSamoa try · Afato So'oialo8–42
  15. –TSamoa try · Patrick Segi8–47

Line-ups

Japan

  1. 1Shin HasegawaProp
  2. 2Masaaki SakataHooker
  3. 3Masahiko ToyoyamaProp
  4. 4Luatangi Samurai VatuveiSecond row
  5. 5Hiroyuki TanumaSecond row
  6. 6Koichi KuboFlanker
  7. 7Takeomi ItoFlanker
  8. 8Yuya SaitoNumber 8
  9. 9Wataru MurataScrum-half
  10. 10Kensuke IwabuchiFly-half
  11. 11Terunori MasuhoWing
  12. 12Yukio MotokiCentre
  13. 13Hideyuki YoshidaCentre
  14. 14Toru KuriharaWing
  15. 15Hirotoki OnozawaFull-back
  16. 16Kenichi TakayangiBench
  17. 17Kazu HamabeBench
  18. 18Jun AkuneBench
  19. 19Kazuya KoizumiBench
  20. 20Shinichi TsukdaBench
  21. 21Nataniela OtoBench
  22. 22Takafumi HiraoBench

Samoa

  1. 1Kas LealamanuaProp
  2. 2Trevor LeotaHooker
  3. 3Mark LuafalealoProp
  4. 4Opeta PalepoiSecond row
  5. 5Lama ToneSecond row
  6. 6Semo SititiFlanker
  7. 7Alfie To'oala VaeluagaFlanker
  8. 8Patrick SegiNumber 8
  9. 9Joe FilemuScrum-half
  10. 10Earl Va'aFly-half
  11. 11Afato So'oialoWing
  12. 12Va'aiga TuigamalaCentre
  13. 13Terry FanoluaCentre
  14. 14Elvis SevealiiWing
  15. 15Tanner ViliFull-back
  16. 16Henry WilliamsBench
  17. 17Ace TiatiaBench
  18. 18Junior ParamoreBench
  19. 19Sene Ta'alaBench
  20. 20Steve So'oialoBench
  21. 21To'o VaegaBench
  22. 22Faapulou So'olefaiBench

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Context

All-time, Japan 7–12 Samoa in 19 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Japan going in
Samoa 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.