Japan have made four changes to their starting line-up for Sundays crucial World Cup game with Scotland.
Victory over Scotland will clinch top place in Pool A along with a quarter-final against South Africa but Sundays game in Yokohama remains in doubt Due to Super Typhoon Hagibis.
World Rugby state the game remains under review and a determination about whether 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, kenki Fukuoka, who scored the winning try against Ireland, replaces Lomano Lemeki about the wing.
Shota Horie begins after coming off the bench in the triumph over Samoa, with Luke Thompson favored to Wimpie van der Walt at the second row.
Thompson will become the Japan player to make 13 Rugby World Cup appearances, breaking.
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, two 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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