TheBreakdown
Full time25 November 1978
Japan
16–4
Korea
Merdeka Stadium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · Asian Championship 1978Head-to-head

Japan won by 12 points.

Scoring

  1. –CJapan conversion · Yoichiro Minamikawa
  2. –PJapan penalty · Yoichiro Minamikawa
  3. –PJapan penalty · Yoichiro Minamikawa
  4. –TJapan try · Hirotaka Ujino
  5. –TJapan try · Take'aki Toyoda

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

Line-ups

Japan

  1. 1Toshiaki YasuiProp
  2. 2Mtsuru HohokabeHooker
  3. 3Take'aki ToyodaProp
  4. 4Takeshi HatakeyamaSecond row
  5. 5Toxhihiko KitaharaSecond row
  6. 6Mitsuru SakamotoFlanker
  7. 7Takeo IshizukaFlanker
  8. 8Ichiro KobayashiNumber 8
  9. 9Akio UedaScrum-half
  10. 10Shigekazu HoshinoFly-half
  11. 11Masao YoshidaWing
  12. 12Yoichiro MinamikawaCentre
  13. 13Masaru FujiwaraCentre
  14. 14Hirotaka UjinoWing
  15. 15Testuro YajimaFull-back
  16. 16Toshihiro HiraiBench
  17. 17Naoshi KumagaiBench
  18. 18Mitsuo ShimojiBench
  19. 19Akihiro GosoBench
  20. 20Junya MatsumotoBench
  21. 21Shigetaka MoriBench

Korea

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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.