Kosuke Endo is pictured above during the match
against Wales at
the 2007 Rugby World Cup.
Japan 31 Fiji 35 (Group B)
Stadium Municipal, Toulouse (12.09)
Japan: 15 Go Aruga; 14 Christian Loamanu,
13 Yuta Imamura, 12 Shotaro Onishi,
11 Kosuke
Endo; 10 Bryce Robins, 9 Tomoki Yoshida; 8
Takuro Miuchi (c), 7 Philip O'Reilly, 6 Hare Makiri,
5 Luke Thompson, 4 Hitoshi Ono, 3 Tomokazu
Soma, 2 Yuji Matsubara, 1 Tatsukichi Nishiura
Replacements: 20 Yuki Yatomi for Yoshida
(58), 22 Hirotoki Onozawa for Aruga (59),
21 Koji Taira for Yatomi (66)
Tries: Thompson (2), Nishiura
Conversions: Onishi (2)
Penalty Goals: Onishi (4)
Referee: Marius Jonker (South Africa)
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Japan 18 Wales 72 (Group B)
Millenium Stadium, Cardiff (20.09)
Japan: 15 Christian Loamanu;
14 Kosuke Endo,
13 Yuta Imamura, 12 Shotaro Onishi, 11 Hirotoki
Onozawa; 10 Bryce Robins, 9 Tomoki Yoshida;
8 Takuro Miuchi (c), 7 Hare Makiri, 6 Yasunori
Watanabe, 5 Luke Thompson, 4 Hitoshi Ono,
3 Tomokazu Soma, 2 Yuji Matsubara, 1 Tatsukishi
Nishiura
Replacements: 21 Koji Taira for Imamura (51),
22 Tatsuya Kusumi for Onishi (52), 19 RyotaAsano for Makiri (52),
17 Ryo Yamamura for Nishiura (54), 18 Hajme Kiso for Thompson (66),
1 Tatsukishi Nishiura for Soma (71)
Tries: Endo, Onozawa
Conversions: Robins
Penalty Goals: Onishi (2)
Referee: Joel Jutge (France)
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Japan 12 Canada 12 (Group B)
Chaban Delmas Stadium, Bordeaux (25.09)
Japan: 15 Go Aruga;
14 Kosuke Endo, 13 Yuta
Imamura, 12 Shotaro Onishi, 11 Christian L'manu;
10 Bryce Robins, 9 Tomoki Yoshida; 8 Takuro
Miuchi (c), 7 Philip O'Reilly, 6 Hare Makiri, 5 Luke
Thompson, 4 Hitoshi Ono, 3 Tomokazu Soma,
2 Yuji Matsubara, 1 Tatsukichi Nishiura
Replacements: 17 Ryo Yamamura for Nishiura,
18 Luatangi Samurai Vatuvei for Ono, 19 Hajime
Kiso for Miuchi, 20 Chulwon Kim for Yoshida,
21 Koji Taira for Imamura, 22 Hirotoki Onozawa
for Endo
Tries: Endo, Taira
Conversions: Onishi
Referee: Jonathan Kaplan (South Africa)