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Japan whip Uruguay for second week running
Japan got ready for two home rugby association tests against 2023 World Cup has France with a 43-7 win over Uruguay on Saturday.
Japan, World Cup quarterfinalists on home soil in 2019, beat Uruguay 34-15 in Tokyo last week and they were again serious areas of strength for excessively the South Americans in the southern city of Kitakyushu.
Chief Atsushi Sakate and Dylan Riley scored first-half pursues for the home side before Sakate, Gerhard van der Heever and Yusuke Kajimura added more after the break.
Japan will move forward their World Cup arrangements when they take on Six Nations champions France in Toyota next Saturday prior to playing them again at Tokyo's Olympic Stadium the next week.
Japan made a quick beginning against Uruguay, with Sakate scoring the main attempt in the fifth moment after a split away at a line-out.
Fly-half Takuya Yamasawa kicked three punishments to place the home side in charge with a little more than 20 minutes gone, just for Uruguay to stem the tide and pin Japan back until the end of the principal half.
A slip-up not long before the stretch expense Los Teros, when a dropped pass ignited a race for the ball that finished with Riley landing for another attempt.
Sakate added one more attempt five minutes into the last part before South Africa-conceived winger Van der Heever, making his Japan debut at 33 years old, landed in the corner five minutes after the fact.
A punishment attempt expanded Japan's lead and Kajimura got in on the demonstration with his most memorable attempt at global level.
Uruguay scored an encouragement attempt a short ways from time through Manuel Ardao.
A punishment attempt expanded Japan's lead and Kajimura got in on the demonstration with his most memorable attempt at global level.
Uruguay scored an encouragement attempt a short ways from time through Manuel Ardao.
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