Jamie Osborne; Jimmy O'Brien, Robbie Henshaw, Stuart McCloskey, Jacob Stockdale; Ciaran Frawley, Craig Casey; Sean Jansen, Nick Timoney, Jack Conan; James Ryan, Tadhg Beirne (capt); Tom Clarkson, Ronan Kelleher, Tom O'Toole

Reserves: Tom Stewart, Billy Bohan, Sam Illo, Cormac Izuchukwu, Bryn Ward, Nathan Doak, Harry Byrne, Bundee Aki

This game is quite interesting. This seems like a B team for Ireland but Japan have improved a lot this year. They hammered Italy more last week than Ireland did earlier in the year. The Maori All Blacks scraped a win by the skin of their teeth.

15 Takuro Matsunaga, 14 Kazuma Ueda, 13 Dylan Riley, 12 Yuya Hirosi, 11 Taira Main, 10 Ryunosuke Ito, 9 Naoto Saito, 8 Jack Cornelson, 7 Kanji Shimokawa, 6 Ben Gunter, 5 Warner Dearns (c), 4 Harry Hockings, 3 Shuhei Takeuchi, 2 Mamoru Harada, 1 Takato Okabe

Reserves: 16 Hayate Era, 17 Sojiro Otsuka, 18 Keijiro Tamefusa, 19 Michael Stolbert, 20 Michael Leitch, 21 Tiennan Costley, 22 Itsuki Kamimura, 23 Sam Greene

Verner Darns is one to watch out for, according to ex Irish captain.

Holy schmokes that's some try.

What a try. Can’t beat gas.

Interesting location for a Japanese home game.

Bad lineout option by Japan.

Casual conversion got what it deserved.

Here we go. Japan back in it.

nb Taira Main's dad is a Kiwi.

@Canes4life said in 2026 Nations Championship: Japan v Ireland:

Interesting location for a Japanese home game.

Ireland refused to travel to Japan and demanded this game be played in Australia.

@woodysrfc said in NC: Japan v Ireland:

@Canes4life said in 2026 Nations Championship: Japan v Ireland:

Interesting location for a Japanese home game.

Ireland refused to travel to Japan and demanded this game be played in Australia.

They should've been made to forfeit.

@antipodean said in NC: Japan v Ireland:

@woodysrfc said in NC: Japan v Ireland:

@Canes4life said in 2026 Nations Championship: Japan v Ireland:

Interesting location for a Japanese home game.

Ireland refused to travel to Japan and demanded this game be played in Australia.

They should've been made to forfeit.

Typical of them. A joke.

@woodysrfc said in NC: Japan v Ireland:

@Canes4life said in 2026 Nations Championship: Japan v Ireland:

Interesting location for a Japanese home game.

Ireland refused to travel to Japan and demanded this game be played in Australia.

Soft.