Teams

Sri Lanka	Japan
Tries none	Tries Hara, Kano, Koyabu, Kurihara, Mori, Murata 2, Yamashita, (1 other)
Cons none	Cons Ueyama 4
Pens 2	Pens none
Team 15 FB Charles Wijewardene 14 W Shafi Jainudeen 13 C Jeffrey de Jong 12 C Didacus de Almeida 11 W Omar Sheriff 10 FH Mahes Sabaratnam 9 SH Hafi Abdeen 1 P Hadji Omar 2 H Ronald Rodrigo 3 P M.F. Fernando 4 L Maiya Gunasekara 5 L Lanil Tennekoon 6 F Indrajit Coomaraswamy 7 F Anton Benedict 8 N8 Hanzil Samad	Team 15 FB Nobuyuki Ueyama 14 W Susumu Kurihara 13 C Shigetaka Mori 12 C Hitoshi Kano 11 W Nobufumi Tanaka 10 FH Osamu Koyabu 9 SH Yuji Matsuo 1 P Asura Hara 2 H Kazumi Ohigashi (c) 3 P Toshio Kurosaka 4 L Koichi Shibata 5 L Shigeru Toyoda 6 F Osamu Yamashita 7 F Takeo Ishizuka 8 N8 Yoshihiro Murata

Notes

Result Japan won by a margin of 38 points

Ground name Longden Place, Colombo

Referee W Ho Yoon

Sri Lanka Test debuts H Abdeen, A Benedict, I Coomaraswamy, D de Almeida, J de Jong, MF Fernando, M Gunasekara, S Jainudeen, H Omar, R Rodrigo, M Sabaratnam, H Samad, O Sheriff, L Tennekoon, DLC Wijewardene

Japan Test debuts H Kano, O Koyabu, S Kurihara, Y Matsuo, N Tanaka, S Toyoda, O Yamashita

Points scoring rules try 4, conversion 2, penalty goal 3, drop goal 3, goal from a mark 3

Other scores

New Zealand tour
Ireland	6 - 15	New Zealand	Lansdowne Road
South Africa tour
France	4 - 13	South Africa	Toulouse
Asian Championship
Korea	41 - 0	Malaysia	Colombo