How Scotland will avoid complacency against Japan in WXV

Brown, who joined Bryan Easson's coaching staff this summer, said preparing to play at their best regardless of opposition has been a focus for Scotland this campaign. 

Scotland won the title last year, and beat Japan 38-7 in the final match as they took the title on points difference from Italy. 

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Asked how they avoid complacency creeping in ahead of the rematch this weekend, Brown said: "You have to talk about it.

"Where we are now as a squad is if you expect or put pressure on yourself to go out and win things, you have to get rid of that complacency."

Evie Gallagher was player of the match against Italy (Image: World Rugby)

He also knows a slight drop in intensity from Scotland - whose campaign began with a 19-0 win over Italy on Saturday - could spell problems.

"When you watch Japan they are a very well-drilled team, like most Japanese sides are, a very good skill set and very good technically.

"Like most teams at Test level, if you aren't on it and you're operating at 80%, you will have a very difficult day.

"The mindset shift we've been pushing is we have to perform to our best every single game, it doesn't matter who you are playing against. If you want to get better, win things and progress up the world rankings, you can't afford to have an off day. You have to perform every single week.

"It's a mindset shift for us. How we deal with that day-to-day in training will have a big part to play in making sure we don't have any complacency this weekend."

Scotland forwards coach Fraser Brown (Image: Scottish Rugby)

Former Scotland and Glasgow hooker Brown, Scotland's forwards coach, knows another big effort from the pack will go a long way to recording a second victory of the tournament for Scotland. 

Offering an assessment of this weekend's opponents, he said: "What was most impressive was they were against a big South African pack yet for the first 30 minutes they were the dominant pack.

"They mauled them, they got two tries off the back of mauls, they got penalties off them and they were competitive at the scrum at the start of the game.

"They are a well-drilled, technical team. If you allow them to get on top of you, if you give them space and if you don't shut them down or do your job at the set-piece, they can hurt you.

"They looked very strong in that first half against South Africa so we'll need to be at our best both sides of the ball and around the set-piece to get a result at the weekend."