TOKYO -- There was no great shock this time, regardless of how much Japan threw at the Springboks.
With a halftime score of 5-3 it was still anybody's game. The"epic moments" of Japan's famous win four years ago were replayed on the stadium screen during the break but it seemed only to remind the South Africans of what was at stake in the second half. Captain Michael Leitch and his Japanese squad won millions of converts to the sport for their high-intensity brand of running rugby, but were unable to cross South Africa's line in what was their first ever trip to the knockout stages of the tournament.
Mapimpi gave South Africa a 5-0 lead in the 4th, easily beating an attempted tackle from Yu Tamuru on the short side after a big shove from the Springbok scrum and outpacing the cover defence to the left corner.
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