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Baseball
Title: Baseball
Category: Recreation & Sports
Details: Words: 1985 | Pages: 8.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Baseball
Japanese Baseball History
Exactly when baseball arrived in Japan isn't clear. Horace Wilson, a professor in Tokyo,
is credited with introducing the American game to his students during the Meiji Era
(1867-1912). This was the beginning of the assimilation of the Western game which the
Japanese named Yakkyu, meaning "field ball." Since then, the game has developed into a
popular pastime for the Japanese.
During the Meiji restoration, as the Japanese began a process of modernization,
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baseball is made into a model of what the Japanese are. In America we try to make
lessons and draw analogies to baseball as to who we are. Baseball is seen in Japan as a
reflection of something the Japanese made in their own image. They do not look to
baseball for lessons like in the US. If you want to be a good baseball player in Japan you
are a corporate man.”
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