| Description | The big sheet has notes on the reverse regarding the match and booing during the national anthem. It is accompanied by annotated programmes for this match and the Japanese tour, notes, including a score sheet, and cuttings from the Western Mail and other unidentified newspapers regarding the tour.
This match was the first Japanese rugby international in the British Isles. It was part of their 1973 tour of Wales, England and France. The score was Wales 62 - 14 Japan. The big sheet records:
Wales
Team: JPR Williams, Gerald Davies, Keith Hughes, Roy Bergiers, John J Williams, Phil Bennett, Clive Shell, Glyn Shaw, Bobbie Windsor, Phil Llewellyn, Alan [Allan] Martin, Derek Quinnell, Tom David, Mervyn Davies and John Taylor.
Replacements: Ian Lewis, Glyn Turner, Alec Finlayson, Graham Price, Roy Thomas and Ian Robinson.
Coach: Clive Rowlands.
Physiotherapist: Jerry Lewis.
Japan
Team: Iwaoi Yamamoto, Yoshi Sakata, Akira Yokoi, Masaru Fujiwara, Tada Ito, Tada Kamohara, Hiroaki Shukuzawa, Susumu Hara, Kazumi Ohigashi, Kozuhito Yoshino, Toshio Terai, Koichi Shibata, Yoshiaki Izawa, Yoshiro Murata and Hideo Akama.
Replacements: Mitsuo Atokawa, Hiroshi Ogasawara, Junji Yoshida, Ryozo Imazato, Masa Iguchi and Bunji Shimazaki.
Manager: Shiggy Konno.
Coach: Hisashi Yokoi.
Referee: Jacques Saint-Guilhem.
Touch judges: E. M. Lewis and D. L. Hoare.
Head Groundsman: Peter Gillard. |