Teams

Japan	Russia
Tries Endo, Imamura, Kikutani, Leitch, Robins 2, Taira 2, Tupuailei 3	Tries none
Cons Tanabe 10	Cons none
Pens none	Pens Ianyushkin
Team 15 FB Atsushi Tanabe 14 W Kosuke Endo 13 C Koji Taira 12 C Ryan Nicholas 11 W Alisi Tupuailei 10 FH Bryce Robins 9 SH Koji Wada 1 P Hisateru Hirashima 2 H Hiroki Yuhara 3 P Nozomu Fujita 4 L Hitoshi Ono 5 L Toshizumi Kitagawa 6 F Takashi Kikutani (c) 7 F Michael Leitch 8 N8 Koliniashi Holani     Replacements 16 H Shota Horie 17 P Naoki Kawamata 18 L Luke Thompson 19 N8 Itaru Taniguchi 20 SH Fumiaki Tanaka 21 C James Arlidge 22 C Yuta Imamura	Team 15 FB Igor Klyuchnikov 14 W Vladimir Ostrushko 13 C Andrei Kuzin 12 C Sergey Trishin 11 W Vasily Artemyev 10 FH Alexei Korobeynikov 9 SH Alexandr Ianyushkin 1 P Sergey Popov 2 H Vladislav Korshunov (c) 3 P Evgeni Pronenko 4 L Alexandr Voytov 5 L Artem Fatakhov 6 F Viktor Gresev 7 F Kirill Kushnarev 8 N8 Nikita Medkov     Replacements 16 F Evgeni Matveev 17 P Alexandr Khrokhin 18 P Ivan Prishchepenko 19 L Alexei Panasenko 20 FH Alexandr Shakirov 21 C Alexei Makovetskiy 22 W Oleg Kobzev

Notes

Result Japan won by a margin of 72 points

Ground name Prince Chichibu Memorial Stadium

Attendance 6274

Referee VG Munro (New Zealand)

Japan Test debuts A Tanabe, I Taniguchi

Russia Test debuts none

Other scores

Australia tour
Wales	16 - 25	Australia	Millennium Stadium
New Zealand tour
England	16 - 26	New Zealand	Twickenham
South Africa tour
Ireland	21 - 23	South Africa	Lansdowne Road
FIRA Championship D2
Sweden	26 - 22	Lithuania	Trelleborg
Malta	26 - 33	Latvia	Paola
Denmark	21 - 20	Hungary	Odense
Bulgaria	25 - 22	Greece	Pernik
Austria	15 - 9	Norway	Vienna
Canada tour
Belgium	12 - 43	Canada	Brussels
Anglo-Welsh Cup
Scarlets	52 - 13	Leeds Tykes	Llanelli
Exeter Chiefs	29 - 6	Wasps	Exeter
Newcastle Falcons	18 - 17	Ospreys	Newcastle