Japan beat Qatar, 123-70, in the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2027 second round. Played at Toyota Arena Tokyo with tip-off scheduled for , the home side secured a win that lifts their second-round record to 6-2 in Asia-Pacific · Group F.
The quarter scores (29-11, 24-23, 40-11, 30-25) show a game that stayed competitive through the first half before Japan broke it open in the third. After building a 19-point lead at halftime (53-34), a 40-11 third quarter pushed the margin to 48 and left Qatar without a realistic path back.
Rui Hachimura led the attack with 30 points on 9-for-15 shooting and 6-for-8 from three, while K. Tominaga added 23 points on 8-for-10 shooting.
Yuki Kawamura ran the offense with nine assists —a game high— in just 18 minutes, part of a Japan attack that finished with 37 assists to Qatar's 11.
Perimeter shooting proved decisive: Japan made 20 of 38 threes (52.6%) against Qatar's 6-for-19 (31.6%), with overall field-goal efficiency of 59.2% to 40.4%. Qatar's 21 turnovers to Japan's nine completed a gap that never closed.
For Qatar, Abdulla Mousa topped the scoring with 14 points, followed by Ousmane Dieng, A. Abdelhaleem and N. Seydou with 12 apiece. None of them received enough collective support to trouble a Japan defense that controlled the game's tempo.
The result strengthens Japan's hold on second place in the group standings —behind Lebanon— at 6-2, while Qatar drop to 4-4 and must regroup in the remaining Week 2 fixtures.
