What Baseball Reveals About Japan: The Same Game, Two Civilizations

A Foreign Game Arrives at the Right Moment Baseball is not originally Japanese. It arrived from America in the nineteenth century, carrying foreign rules, foreign language, and foreign ideas. Yet few cultural imports have been absorbed so completely into Japanese society. Today, baseball in Japan feels less like an adopted sport and more like a... View Article The post What Baseball Reveals About Japan: The Same Game, Two Civilizations appeared first on tourist wannabe.