Japan - Rugby World Cup Team Stats
Japan have played in every world cup and lost all five of their opening round matches.
They have only won one of 16 matches played, a 52-8 victory against Zimbabwe in 1991.
In this match they scored their record 9 tries in a world cup game.
The Zimbabwe game was the only time they have not conceded as many as 20 points in a match.
They are the only team in the world cup to have conceded 100 tries since its inception.
They have conceded the most points ever in a world cup match with their 145-17 defeat against New Zealand in 1995.
Despite this enormous defeat, flanker Hiroyuki Kajihara managed to score two tries for Japan. He is one of 7 Japanese players to score two tries in a world cup match. Nobody has scored three.
They are prolific scorers themselves in world cup qualifying matches and have scored over 120 points in a match three times against Chinese Taipei.
Japan are the only team to have played in every tournament not to have a player sent off or receive a yellow card.
Toru Kurihara holds the Japanese world cup record for points in a match with 21 against USA in 2003.
He also holds the record of kicking 5 penalties in the match against France in 2003.
Kurihara has scored most points for Japan in world cups with 40, one more than Keiji Hirose.
Two famous New Zealanders, Graeme Bachop and Jamie Joseph, both played in the 1999 world cup for Japan having previously played for the All Blacks.
