Japan team for match against Fiji
10-Sep-2007
Japan's coach John Kirwan has announced the team to take on Fiji in the Pool B match at the Municipal Stadium in Toulouse this Wednesday (12-Sep). A few changes have been made since the Cherry Blossoms were slaughtered by the Wallabies in their first RWC 2007 match, most notably captain Takamichi Sasaki will be absent from Wednesday's match after suffering a knee injury.
The Japanese team has been announced as follows:
- 1 Tatsukichi Nishiura
- 2 Yuji Matsubara
- 3 Tomokazu Soma
- 4 Hitoshi Ono
- 5 Luke Thompson
- 6 Hare Makiri
- 7 Philip O'Reilly
- 8 Takuro Miuchi
- 9 Tomoki Yoshida
- 10 Bryce Robins
- 11 Kosuke Endo
- 12 Shotaro Onishi
- 13 Yuta Imamura
- 14 Christian Loamanu
- 15 Go Aruga
- 16 Taku Inokuchi
- 17 Ryo Yamamura
- 18 Takanori Kumagae
- 19 Ryota Asano
- 20 Yuki Yatomi
- 21 Koji Taira
- 22 Hirotoki Onozawa
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