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Full time20 November 2004
Romania
25–10
Japan
Stadionul Steaua II, Bucharest, Romania · Tour 2004Head-to-head

Romania won by 15 points.

Scoring

  1. 1’PRomania penalty · Ionut Tofan3–0
  2. 3’CRomania conversion · Ionut Tofan5–0
  3. 3’TRomania try · Alexandru Tudori10–0
  4. 5’PJapan penalty · Seiichi Shimomura10–3
  5. 26’PRomania penalty · Ionut Tofan13–3
  6. 35’CRomania conversion · Ionut Tofan15–3
  7. 35’TRomania try · Cristian Sauan20–3
  8. 54’CJapan conversion · Seiichi Shimomura20–5
  9. 54’TJapan try · Takuro Miuchi20–10
  10. 94’TRomania try · Petrisor Toderasc25–10

Line-ups

Romania

  1. 1Petru BalanProp
  2. 2Razvan MavrodinHooker
  3. 3Marcel SocaciuProp
  4. 4Gheorge OprisorSecond row
  5. 5Cristian PetreSecond row
  6. 6Costica MersoiuFlanker
  7. 7Alexandru TudoriFlanker
  8. 8Adrian -Alin PetracheNumber 8
  9. 9Valentin CalafeteanuScrum-half
  10. 10Ionut TofanFly-half
  11. 11Ioan TeodorescuWing
  12. 12Romeo Stefan GontineacCentre
  13. 13Cristian SauanCentre
  14. 14Bogdan VoicuWing
  15. 15Valentin MafteiFull-back
  16. 16Bogdan ZebegaBench
  17. 17Cezar PopescuBench
  18. 18Petrisor ToderascBench
  19. 19Valentin UrsacheBench
  20. 20Iulian AndreiBench
  21. 21Tiberius Ionut DimofteBench
  22. 22Danut DumbravaBench

Japan

  1. 1Masahito YamamotoProp
  2. 2Takashi YamaokaHooker
  3. 3Ryo YamamuraProp
  4. 4Takanori KumagaeSecond row
  5. 5Hajime KisoSecond row
  6. 6Naoya OkuboFlanker
  7. 7Takatoyo YamaguchiFlanker
  8. 8Takuro MiuchiNumber 8
  9. 9Kiyonori TanakaScrum-half
  10. 10Hideyuki YoshidaFly-half
  11. 11Hiroki MizunoWing
  12. 12Masatoshi MukoyamaCentre
  13. 13Seiichi ShimomuraCentre
  14. 14Koichiro KubotaWing
  15. 15Ryohei MikiFull-back
  16. 16Mitsugu YamamotoBench
  17. 17Yuichi HisadomiBench
  18. 18Hitoshi OnoBench
  19. 19Feletiliki MauBench
  20. 20Wataru IkedaBench
  21. 21Yukio MotokiBench
  22. 22Hayato DaimonBench

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Context

All-time, Romania 2–5 Japan in 7 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Romania going in
Japan 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.