Japan name team for Tonga match

Japan head coach John Kirwan on Monday announced his team to play their third Pool A match against Tonga at Northland Events Centre, Whangarei on Wednesday, 21 September.

Japan:

1. Hisateru Hirashima
2. Shota Horie
3. Kensuke Hatakeyama
4. Luke Thompson
5. Toshizumi Kitagawa
6. Itaru Taniguchi
7. Michael Leitch
8. Takashi Kikutani (c)
9. Fumiaki Tanaka
10. James Arlidge
11. Hirotoki Onozawa
12. Ryan Nicholas
13. Alisi Tupuailai
14. Kosuke Endo
15. Shaun Webb

Replacements:

16. Yusuke Aoki
17. Nozomu Fujita
18. Hitoshi Ono
19. Sione Talikavili Vatuvei
20. Atsushi Hiwasa
21. Takehisa Usuzuki
22. Murray Williams