Baseball
I don’t think anyone needs me to tell them this, but Japanese people love baseball. Baseball is one of America’s pastimes, but has since made its way to Japan and become a beloved sport all across the land of the rising sun. Baseball was first introduced in Japan by an American by the name of Horace Wilson back in either 1871 (according to the Japanese Wikipedia page about Baseball in Japan) or 1872 (according to the English version of the same article). It was first known in Japan as dakyu oni goko , literally meaning ‘batting tag’. However, baseball is nowadays known in Japan as yakyu . I’m not much of a sports person, but seeing as Japanese people love baseball, and seeing as I’d heard that the way in which Japanese people support their favorite team is different than how you’d see a baseball fan in America support their favorite team, I’d wanted to see a baseball game in Japan for some time now. Watching a game of baseball in Japan isn’t much different than in Americ