Summary

  • New Zealand qualify for quarter-finals with 10-try win at Exeter's Sandy Park

  • Full-back Braxton Sorensen-McGee scores hat-trick of tries

  • Portia Woodman-Wickliffe becomes New Zealand's all-time top try-scorer with her 50th international score

  • Sora Hatada gave Japan shock lead before defending champions hit back with six first-half tries

  • Black Ferns play Ireland on Sunday to decide who goes through as Pool C winners

  • Japan put in spirited display but are bottom the pool after two defeats

Live Reporting

Tim Oscroft

  1. Sin-bin

    New Zealand 38-5 Japan

    Indeed, Haruka Hirotsu went in too high, there was a head-to-head clash and she is off for 10 minutes and a bunker review that could see the card upgraded.

  2. New Zealand 36-5 Japan

    Karl Te Nana
    Former New Zealand winger on BBC iPlayer

    That was a massive collision. Haruka Hirotsu unfortunately got her technique wrong.

  3. converted try

    Converted try - New Zealand 38-5 Japan

    Risaleaana Pouri-Lane (con: Sorensen)

    The scrum-half scores with great determination, crashing over from close ramge with a few defenders in tow.

    To add to Japan's woes they may lose a player for foul play in the lead-up.

    Risaleaana Pouri-Lane scoring a tryGetty Images

  4. 'Danger woman' Woodman-Wickliffe scores record breaking try for New Zealand

    She's some player, and it didn't take her long to pull clear of Doug Howlett.

    'Danger woman' Woodman-Wickliffe scored record breaking try for New Zealand

  5. New Zealand 31-5 Japan

    Karl Te Nana
    Former New Zealand winger on BBC iPlayer

    The injection by Stacey Waaka. She is having a great first-half. Great stuff too from Kennedy Tukuafu.

  6. converted try

    Converted try - New Zealand 31-5 Japan

    Kennedy Tukuafu (con: Sorensen)

    Stacey Waaka sets this one tieing in a few defenders with a break, before the ball is spun to the flanker who flies over the line under the posts.

  7. Hatada strikes first for Japan against defending champions New Zealand

    It was quite the start from the underdogs, though.

    Hatada strikes first for Japan against defending champions New Zealand

  8. New Zealand 24-5 Japan

    Karl Te Nana
    Former New Zealand winger on BBC iPlayer

    The exuberance of the youth. Don't forget about Braxton Sorensen-McGee. The forwards were using their micro skills to set Sorensen up.

  9. try

    Try - New Zealand 24-5 Japan

    Braxton Sorensen-McGee

    It didn't take long to stretch the lead again, with the ball going wide to the left and the impressive full-back diving over just inside the flag. She can't convert her own try but New Zealand are in complete control now.

    Braxton Sorensen-McGee scoring a tryPA Media

  10. New Zealand 19-5 Japan

    Karl Te Nana
    Former New Zealand winger on BBC iPlayer

    She was out. Fantastic defence by Japan. It was a great scramble from Mana Furuta. You can't get better than that defensively.

  11. No try

    New Zealand 19-5 Japan

    No! A superb tackle by Mana Furuta did just enough to put the Black Ferns' number 15's foot just over the line.

  12. try

    Try - New Zealand 24-5 Japan

    Braxton Sorensen-McGee

    The full-back Sorensen-McGee dives over by the flag - but was there a foot in touch? It's been given on the pitch.

  13. New Zealand 19-5 Japan

    Karl Te Nana
    Former New Zealand winger on BBC iPlayer

    There is a beautiful bit of skill from Sylvia Brunt in the lead-up to this score. An easy touchdown for Katelyn Vahaakolo.

  14. converted try

    Converted try - New Zealand 19-5 Japan

    Katelyn Vahaakolo (con: Sorens

    The Black Ferns move to the left, Sylvia Brunt delays a pass to take two defenders out of the reckoning and Vahaakolo has a simple task to run it over the line, with Sorensen potting a tricky conversion.

    Sorens kicking a conversionGetty Images

  15. New Zealand 12-5 Japan

    Stacey Waaka makes a nice break after New Zealand throw it to the right in the Japan 22, but another handling error gifts the scrum to Japan.

    Not quite the slick stuff we'd expect from the world champions so far.

  16. New Zealand 12-5 Japan

    Japan are giving it back to the World Cup holders at every opportunity, and they force another penalty before kicking deep into the other half.

    They win the lineout and spin it left, winger Komachi Imakugi does a a little hitch-kick on the run, a la David Campese, but is tackled into touch.

  17. New Zealand 12-5 Japan

    The Black Ferns shape to the left again almost straight from the restart, but the ball goes forward off Stacey Waaka 10 metres short of the line.

  18. New Zealand 12-5 Japan

    Karl Te Nana
    Former New Zealand winger on BBC iPlayer

    She had plenty of players around her but Jorja Miller, you go yourself. She is a definite star of the future. She is brillaint.

  19. converted try

    Converted try - New Zealand 12-5 Japan

    Jorja Miller (con: Sorensen)

    The flanker rampages over, moving left in acres of space before ambling over under the posts for a try that Braxton Sorensen converts with ease.

    It feels like we are back to how we thought things would pan out.

    Jorja Miller scoring a tryGetty Images

  20. New Zealand 5-5 Japan

    Layla Arrison
    Rugby reporter on BBC iPlayer

    She is the greatest try scorer New Zealand has ever seen. They said she wasn't thinking about it but she stands heads and shoulders above everyone else.