Updated October 24, 2026: Japan’s women’s national team has completed its test against Wales at Prince Chichibu Memorial Stadium in Tokyo. The Japan Rugby Football Union (JRFU) match record marks the game as full time and confirms a 17–0 win for Wales. The official breakdown shows Wales leading 7–0 at halftime and scoring 10 more points in the second half. Japan finished with no points.
Japan 0, Wales 17. The result is confirmed by the JRFU’s completed match record, which displays “full time” and separates the score into first- and second-half totals. Wales scored seven points before halftime and added 10 after the break. The record credits Wales with three tries and one successful conversion overall. Japan’s score remained at zero.
Wales’ first-half try was scored by Seren Lockwood, with Freya Bell adding the conversion. The second-half tries were credited to Kelsey Jones and Lockwood, giving Lockwood two tries in the match. The recorded scoring sequence accounts for the final 17 points: five points for each try and two for Bell’s conversion. The official record does not show a successful conversion on either of Wales’ second-half tries.
This result replaces the earlier preview status, when the match had not yet been played. The score is now available from the governing union’s match record, so it should be used in place of any pre-match wording that described the final result as pending. The result confirms the winner and score; it does not, by itself, establish a broader explanation for the outcome.
The test took place on Saturday, October 24, 2026, at Prince Chichibu Memorial Stadium in Tokyo, Japan. The JRFU’s pre-match team announcement listed a scheduled kickoff of 6:30 p.m. in Tokyo. Tokyo uses Japan Standard Time, JST (UTC+09:00), on that date, making the scheduled kickoff 9:30 a.m. UTC on October 24. Japan does not observe daylight saving time, and the UTC conversion does not change the calendar date.
The JRFU’s post-match match-information section displays 6:31 p.m. JST in its kickoff field, while its squad announcement gave the scheduled 6:30 p.m. start. Both times refer to the same Tokyo fixture; the one-minute difference is retained as shown in the two official records. World Rugby also lists the match at Prince Chichibu Memorial Stadium on October 24.
The Japan-Wales fixture was one half of a doubleheader marking the JRFU’s 100th anniversary. Japan’s men were scheduled to play Fiji at the same Tokyo stadium earlier in the day, with the women’s test against Wales following. The federation’s anniversary and the women’s team milestone are related to the same event day, but they are separate facts: the match was a JRFU centenary fixture and Japan’s 100th women’s test match.
The fixture also formed part of the WXV Global Series 2026. Japan and Wales are scheduled to meet again on October 31 at Kumagaya Rugby Stadium in Saitama Prefecture. That is a separate test on a later date, not an extension of the Tokyo match or part of its 17–0 score. The Tokyo result should therefore be attached only to the October 24 fixture.
The JRFU registered Moe Tsukui as Japan’s captain and published the following 23-player squad. The first list is the starting XV; the second is the replacement bench. Separating those groups preserves the team-sheet roles and avoids presenting all 23 players as starters.
Starting XV
Replacements
The Welsh Rugby Union named Kate Williams and Alex Callender as co-captains. Wales’ published team sheet listed these starters and replacements for the Tokyo test.
Starting XV
Replacements
The lists above are the official matchday selections, not a summary of every player’s minutes. A name in the starting XV means the player was selected to begin the test; a name in the replacements list identifies a player named on the bench. The JRFU match record separately includes its event timeline and score breakdown, which are the appropriate references for confirmed substitutions and scoring details.
For readers comparing the preview with the completed event, the confirmed facts are now straightforward: the venue was Prince Chichibu Memorial Stadium in Tokyo; the match was played on October 24; and Wales won 17–0. The pre-match squad announcements remain useful for the official lineups, while the completed JRFU record is the decisive source for full time and the final score. No player-of-the-match award or additional performance statistic is stated here because it is not needed to report the verified result.
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