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Scotland captain Stuart McInally was omitted at Yokohama for Sundays crucial but under-threat World Cup Pool A decider from Japan.
His location in hooker is accepted by Fraser Brown, who started in the row.
Tommy Seymour and wings Darcy Graham will be the two other survivors from the much-changed side.
Seymour – replacing the injured Sean Maitland – and Brown will be.
Scrum-half Greig Laidlaw will captain the side, with McInally on the seat.
Sundays game remains under threat due to Typhoon Hagibis, which is predicted to hit Japan on Saturday.
Two Saturday matches announced as draws, also have been cancelled, however World Rugby expects the worst of the storm will probably have eased by Sunday and will make a decision on the morning about if it goes ahead of this game.
If the match has been cancelled and declared a draw, then the tournament could be exited by Scotland.
Scotland sit in their group and, if Ireland conquer Samoa, should conquer on the hosts – and also require more things than them to progress to the quarter-finals.
Townsend praised his side to the way theyve responded by Ireland after their opening defeat.
Its taken a real squad effort from our players here in Japan to place us in a place to play with a spot in the quarter-finals, he said.
The entire group has featured in our past two evaluations, each of which happen to be professional and clinical performances.
A few players have pushed hard for selection with the kind theyve shown in training and in the past two games and its down to this group of 23 men to build on this team and momentum togetherness to deliver a winning performance against Japan.
Scotland: Hogg Harris Graham Laidlaw; Dell Nel, Gilchrist, Gray, Bradbury, Ritchie, Thomson.
Replacements: McInally, Reid Cummings, Wilson Horne Kinghorn.
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