Japan beat Korea to take their title from them and Chinese Taipei beat Thailand and so qualified for the IRB's Under-19 Championship in Dubai in April 2006.
Japan beat the holders of the title Korea. Both teams will be in Dubai, Japan in Division A and Korea in Division B. There was one Asian place left, and that has now been filled by Chinese Taipei.

It was Japans first victory over Korea in a drought going back three years to 2003 . Their performance in the Asian regional qualifier for the 2006 World Under-19 Championships, is consistent with their prequalification for Division A of the World event, after their 2005 performance in finishing 11th ahead of Georgia. In contrast, Korea had prequalified for Division B, finishing 5th ahead of the United States, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Russia, Spain, Chile and Paraguay. Korea will have to lift their game a few notches if they are to attain the same results in 2006.

Japan took advantage of Korea being down to 14 players from a sin bin, for a ten minutes' period in the first quarter, racing to a 12-0 lead with two quick overlap tries from pacy backs Yamaguchi Masumi and Takimoto Takuya.

Korea looked a shadow of themselves as compared to their pool matches, basic errors and wrong options costing them dearly. They managed just a single first half penalty for the entire match.
Man-mountain prop Hatamoto Toro, added to Koreas misery, scoring from a rolling maul just on half-time to stretch Japan to a 17-3 lead.

A further try and a penalty in the second spell saw Japan home at 25-3

The match to decide third place and a trip to Dubai in the Arabian Gulf for next April's 2006 World Under-19 Championships to join Korea in Division B, pitted Chinese Taipei against Thailand.

After trailing Thailand by six points - penalty and drop goal - for a major part of the first half, Chinese Taipei switched their normal open running game to one that was almost totally forward dominated. Deprived of possession from that point on, the lighter Thailand side had little answer. This enabled Chinese Taipei to run away with it and finish comfortable winners 25-6.

It is a fitting reward for Chinese Taipei who, after having qualified for the Paris, France 2003 World Under-19 Championships, had their invitation withdrawn by the hosts on ill-conceived SARS virus–related grounds.

Among the highlights of the Pakistan Rugby Unions well -organised tournament was the creditable "two wins and one loss" record of newcomers, Brunei, who became members of the Asian Rugby Football Union only a short year ago in 2004.

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