South Africa will face Wales in next weekend’s semi-final after an eventually convincing 26-3 victory Read Paul Rees’s match report from Tokyo 1.52pm BST
So there you have it. Hosts
Japan are out, after a hugely spirited effort against the heavyweights of South Africa, who were just too good and too powerful in the second half in Tokyo.
Semi-finals-wise,
England play
New Zealand in Yokohama on Saturday, and Wales meet
South Africa on Sunday at the same venue, to decide the finalists who will face off on Saturday, 2 November. 1.48pm BST
Wales have some thinking to do ahead of next week’s semi-final. Facing scrum-half Faf de Klerk, playing behind a pack on that kind of form, is not going to be easy. But Wales’s all-action back row will no doubt seek to close de Klerk down more successfully than Japan did today.