Japan make four changes for crucial Rugby World Cup game with Scotland

Japan have made four changes to their starting line-up for Sundays crucial World Cup game.
Victory over Scotland will clinch top place and a quarter-final from South Africa but Sundays game in Yokohama stays in doubt Due to Super Typhoon Hagibis.
World Rugby say the game remains under review and a decision about if it goes forward will be taken just hours ahead of the scheduled 7.45pm Japan time (11.45am BST) kick-off.
While William Tupou comes in at full-back, replaces Lomano Lemeki about the wing.
Shota Horie begins with Luke Thompson preferred to Wimpie van der Walt in the second row after coming off the bench in the triumph over Samoa, at hooker.
Thompson will turn into the Japan participant to create 13 Rugby World Cup looks, breaking the record he shares with Hirotoki Onazawa.
Japan: 15 William Tupou, 14 Kotaro Matsushima, 13 Timothy Lafaele, 12 Ryoto Nakamura, 11 Kenki Fukuoka, 10 Yu Tamura, 9 Yutaka Nagare; 1 Keita Inagaki, 2 Shota Horie, 3 Jiwon Koo, 4 Luke Thompson, 5 James Moore, 6 Michael Leitch (c), seven Pieter Labuschagne, 8 Kazuki Himeno.
Replacements: 16 Atsushi Sakate, 17 Isileli Nakajima, 18 Asaeli Ai Valu, 19 Uwe Helu ,20 Hendrik Tui, 21 Fumiaki Tanaka, 22 Rikiya Matsuda, 23 Ryohei Yamanaka.

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