The match celebrated a 30-year accord between Australia and Japan and was part of the 80th anniversary celebrations of the Japan RFU. In addition it was part of Japan's warm-up for its World Cup qualifiers in Hong Kong later this month.

The result serves to emphasise the great chasm between the top rugby nations and those performing well a tier below. Australia have players at home resting and two teams in Europe and yet they can turn in this huge victory over Japan who qualify for each World Cup.

Peter Hynes scored the first of the Australians' nine tries and he did so in the first minute of the match. Japan kicked an up-and-under. Hynes caught inside his own half and scored with a splendid solo effort.

Junior Pelesasa, John Roe and David Croft added three more tries to make the score 28-0 before Japan got on the scoreboard.

The home side put pressure on the tourists and eventually left wing Hirotoki Onodera dived over in the corner. 28-5 after 28 minutes.

Japan's enterprising scrumhalf Shota Goto intercepted an Australian pass near Japan's line and raced some 95 metres for a try at the posts. 28-12.

Just before the half-time whistle wing Caleb Brown got the first of his two tries to make the score 35-12 at the break.

Peter Hewat, Brown, replacement Francis Fainifo and Lloyd Johansson added further tries in the second half while for Japan, the holder of the world record for Test tries Daisuke Ohata, captaining Japan, scored Japan's third try half way through the half.

Japan plays the Queensland Reds on 10 November and then Hong Kong on 18 November and South Korea on 25 November at the Hong Kong Football Club.

Scorers:

For Australian Prime Minister's XV:
Tries: Hynes, Pelesasa, Roe, Croft, Brown 2, Hewat, Fainifo, Johansson
Cons: Hewat 7, Huxley

For Japan:
Tries: Onozawa, Goto, Ohata
Cons: Morita 2

Teams:

Japan squad: Ryo Yamamura, Yuichi Hisadomi, Tomokazu Soma, Tatsukichi Nishiura, Yuji Matsubara, Mitsugu Yamamoto, Luatangi Samurai Vatuvei, Hitoshi Ono, Takashi Akatsuka, Takuro Miuchi, Hajime Kiso, Ryota Asano, Takashi Kikutani, Philip O’Reilly, Mamoru Ito, Shota Goto, Kyohei Morita, Keisuke Sawaki, Daisuke Ohata (captain), Hirotoki Onozawa, Tomoki Kitagawa, Hideyuki Yoshida, Seiichi Shimomura, Genta Akanuma, Kenji Shomen, Go Aruga

 Australian Prime Minister'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

Referee: Shinji Aida (Japan)
Touch judges: Brett Bowden (Australia), Shinsuke Shimoi (Japan)