The Latest: No shock as Boks reach semis with win over Japan

TOKYO (AP) — The Latest on Sunday at the Rugby World Cup in Japan (all times local):
9:20 p.m.
South Africa has advanced to the semifinals with a grinding 26-3 win over Japan, bringing an end to the home team’s entertaining run at the first Rugby World Cup staged in Asia.
The week-long hype over a potential repeat of Japan’s upset over South Africa in 2015, the so-called Miracle of Brighton, was muscled out of reality by a big Springboks lineup that stuck to its attritional gam