Canada face off against Japan in Internationals on Sat 11th June 2016 at . Kick-off in the UK is scheduled for 23:00. In South Africa it’s at 00:00 SAST, 10:00 NZST in New Zealand, 08:00 AEST in Australia and 15:00 EST in the US.
Japan won the last encounter but Japan are in the best form of their last 5 games.
Heading into the fixture, Japan sits at 12 in the World Rugby Rankings, while Canada holds 25.
The two sides are separated by 13 places in the rankings with Canada in position 25 and Japan in position 12 as such Japan are favourites on paper.
The official squads for Canada vs Japan will become available around 24- 48 hours before kick-off. Teams can still make changes up to an hour before the match however.
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Aaron Carpenter scores a try for Canada.
Yu Tamura does the business as his penalty goal attempt goes over.
Yu Tamura makes no mistake with that conversion attempt.
Kotaro Matsushima scores a try for Japan.
Yoshiya Hosoda (Japan) is shown the red card.
Yu Tamura makes no mistake with that penalty goal attempt.
Aaron Carpenter (Canada) is shown a yellow card.
Jamie Cudmore scores a try for Canada.
Yu Tamura kicks the penalty.
Yu Tamura converts the try.
Takeshi Kizu scores a try for Japan.
Gordon McRorie has kicked a conversion.
Ray Barkwill scores a try for Canada.
Yu Tamura has kicked a penalty goal.
Taylor Paris scores a try for Canada.