It is also part of the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Japan Rugby Football Union.

This match and the match against the Queensland Reds the following Friday are intended to help Japan's preparations for the Asian qualifiers for the 2007 Rugby World Cup to be played in Hong King later this month.

Japan have made nine changes to the team that narrowly lost to Fiji in July.

While the front row of Yuichi Hisadomi, Yuji Matsubara and Ryo Yamamura remains intact, there are wholesale changes in the backs.

Shota Goto and Keisuke Sawaki team up at halfback, while Genta Akanuma wins his first cap alongside Seiichi Shimomura in the centres. It is an inexperienced pairing as Shimomura has only two caps.

Another player winning his first cap is fullback Go Aruga, who follows in the footsteps of his father, Ken, who won nine caps for Japan in the 1970s. Aruga forms an exciting back three alongside captain Daisuke Ohata, then most capped player in the team with 55 caps, and Hirotoki Onozawa, who has 19 caps, the second most in the squad.

Former captain Takuro Miuchi returns to the team at No.8 and will pack down alongside 26-year-old New Zealander Phil O'Reilly and Hajime Kiso, while Hitoshi Ono, who led the side against Fiji, and veteran Takashi Akatsuka are picked in the second row.

The Australian team is captained by John Roe, nine times a Wallaby Test player.

Teams:

Japan squad: Ryo Yamamura (Yamaha Motor Jubilo), Yuichi Hisadomi (NEC Green Rockets), Tomokazu Soma (Sanyo Wild Knights), Tatsukichi Nishiura (Coca-Cola West Red Sparks), Yuji Matsubara (Kobe Steel Kobelco Steelers), Mitsugu Yamamoto (Sanyo Wild Knights), Luatangi Samurai Vatuvei (Toshiba Brave Lupus), Hitoshi Ono (Toshiba Brave Lupus), Takashi Akatsuka (Kubota Spears), Takuro Miuchi (NEC Green Rockets), Hajime Kiso (Yamaha Motor Jubilo), Ryota Asano (NEC Green Rockets), Takashi Kikutani (Toyota Motor Verblitz), Philip O’Reilly (Sanyo Wild Knights), Mamoru Ito (Toshiba Brave Lupus), Shota Goto (Kobe Steel Kobelco Steelers), Kyohei Morita (Kobe Steel Kobelco Steelers), Keisuke Sawaki (Suntory Sungoliath), Daisuke Ohata (Kobe Steel Kobelco Steelers) (captain), Hirotoki Onozawa (Suntory Sungoliath), Tomoki Kitagawa (Sanyo Wild Knights), Hideyuki Yoshida (Kubota Spears), Seiichi Shimomura (Sanyo Wild Knights), Genta Akanuma (Toyota Motor Verblitz), Kenji Shomen (Toyota Motor Verblitz), Go Aruga (Suntory Sungoliath)

Australian President's XV: 15 Peter Hewat, 14 Peter Hynes, 13 Julian Huxley (vice-captain) , 12 Junior Pelesasa, 11 Caleb Brown, 10 Daniel Halangahu, 9 Matt Henjak, 8 John Roe (captain), 7 David Croft, 6 Richard Brown, 5 Pat O’Connor, 4 Will Caldwell,  3 Ben Coutts, 2 Adam Freier, 1 Gareth Hardy.
Replacements: 16 Sean Hardman, 17 John Ulugia, 18 Luke Doherty, 19 Julian Salvi, 20 Nic Berry, 21 Lloyd Johansson, 22 Francis Fainifo

Date: Saturday, 4 November 2005
Kick-off: 13.00 (local time)
Venue:  Prince Chichibu Memorial Rugby Ground, Tokyo
Referee: Shinji Aida (Japan)
Touch judges: Brett Bowden (Australia), Shinsuke Shimoi (Japan)