{"id":847860,"date":"2026-08-08T10:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/847860\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:26:09","slug":"wallabies-vs-japan-live-les-kiss-leads-australia-in-first-rugby-test-as-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/847860\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallabies vs Japan live: Les Kiss leads Australia in first rugby Test as coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Wallabies and Japan are both part of the Nations Championship, a 12-nation competition in its inaugural year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The competition is split between six nations from the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Each nation plays every member of the other conference, and the top team in the North and South play off in the final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Australia and Japan are in the Southern Hemisphere conference (I know, I know. Japan is in the Northern Hemisphere. Please let it go).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Australia and Japan also had identical opponents during the three rounds in July, facing Ireland, France and Italy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Australia<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Wallabies led at half-time in all three Test matches in July, but managed only one win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Wallabies missed a kick after the siren to lose 31-33 to Ireland, and were blown off the park by France in the second half to lose 26-42.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">But the Wallabies were excellent against Italy in Perth, claiming a 57-10 win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Japan<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Brave Blossoms started the Nations Championship on a high at home, defeating Italy 27-10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">They then travelled to Newcastle for a home match against Ireland (I know, I know. Newcastle is not in Japan. Please let it go). Japan were beaten 20-36, before returning to their home country for a 15-42 loss to France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wallabies and Japan are both part of the Nations Championship, a 12-nation competition in its inaugural year.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,760,2633],"class_list":["post-847860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}