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Emotional as Japan bless their new venue

By ADAM ELLIS

Hitting back: Sam Matavesi scores for Fiji

JAPAN blessed the first Test match to be played at Kamaishi Recovery Memorial Stadium with victory over Fiji to get their Pacific Nations Cup campaign off to a winning start.
The World Cup hosts outscored their opponents by five tries to three as the Kamaishi community came together to support the Cherry Blossoms.
Decimated by the earthquake and tsumani which struck much of the northeast coast of Japan in 2011, the city’s newlyconstructed stadium – built on the grounds of two schools which were destroyed in the disaster...

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