TheBreakdown
Full time16 November 1980
Japan
21–12
Korea
Municipal Stadium, Taipei, Chinese Taipei · Asian Championship 1980Head-to-head

Japan won by 9 points.

Scoring

  1. –CJapan conversion · Nobufumi Tanaka
  2. –PJapan penalty · Nobufumi Tanaka
  3. –TJapan try · Etsuro Tsuji
  4. –TJapan try · Etsuro Tsuji
  5. –TJapan try · Nobuyuki Ueyama
  6. –TJapan try · Hikaru Kawachi

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

Line-ups

Japan

  1. 1Jiro IshiyamaProp
  2. 2Toshihiro HiraiHooker
  3. 3Yoshichiro IkedaProp
  4. 4Michihito ChidaSecond row
  5. 5Ryutaro FukurodateSecond row
  6. 6Mitsuru SakamotoFlanker
  7. 7Takeo IshizukaFlanker
  8. 8Hikaru KawachiNumber 8
  9. 9Yoshimitsu KonishiScrum-half
  10. 10Nobuyuki UeyamaFly-half
  11. 11Hirotaka UjinoWing
  12. 12Yoichiro MinamikawaCentre
  13. 13Shigetaka MoriCentre
  14. 14Etsuro TsujiWing
  15. 15Nobufumi TanakaFull-back
  16. 16Toru WadaBench
  17. 17Koji HoraguchiBench
  18. 18Takashi ItoBench
  19. 19Junya MatsumotoBench
  20. 20Shinichi OikawaBench
  21. 21Fukumi KanayaBench

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.