Japan have handed a debut to fly-half Riku Kitahara as part of a half-back pairing with co-captain Naoto Saito.
Kitahara starts with Ryunosuke Ito unavailable because of his commitments for his university in Japan.
The rest of the backline features Samisoni Tua and Dylan Riley in the centres, wings Inoke Burua and Kippei Ishida and Kazuma Ueda at full-back.
Mamoru Harada packs down at hooker with props Yota Kamimori and Shuhei Takeuchi either side of him, while Harry Hockings and co-captain Warner Dearns make up the second row.
Jack Cornelsen is named at number eight in a back row with Ben Gunter and Kanji Shimokawa.
Japan: Ueda; Ishida, Riley, Tua, Burua; Kitahara, Saito (co-capt); Kamimori, Harada, Takeuchi, Hockings, Dearns (co-capt), Gunter, Shimokawa, Cornelsen.
Replacements: Sato, Otsuka, Helu, Stolberg, Costley, Fukuda, Komura, Lee.
