BTW: Video was not meant to downplay the accomplishments of ANY other Asian country but rather put a focus on understanding how systems and youth-developmental structure play into probabilities, while putting it within the context of socio-economics and priorities. But yeah if you're going to open it up to debate, cool - we already predicted it earlier in the video 😂
Honestly thought it was a great video I think it would be awesome if you could turn it into a series and talk about the youth development and socio-economics of other Asian countries such as China and Korea just a thought don’t mean to downplay any of your videos keep up the great work!
It's kind of sad that you felt you had to make that disclaimer but this is the Internet we're saying "I like pancakes" means somebody interprets that as "you hate waffles?!"
Japan, China, and South Korea are the strongest sports countries in Asia, but where Japan differs greatly from the other two is in the way it trains its athletes. In Japan, sports are encouraged in schools, and many teenagers play sports every day after school in junior high and high schools. In China and Korea, on the other hand, youth sports are not as popular in schools, and the state has taken the initiative to develop elite athletes in order to enhance national prestige. It was not until around 2007, much later than China and Korea, that Japan established a national training center and began to develop elite athletes on a national level. Koreans have often compared this situation to "Japan for life sports" and "Korea for elite sports". The recent success of Japanese sports is the result of a combination of a huge youth sports population and state-run training for elite athletes. In other words, it is the result of a combination of "life sports" and "elite sports".
Why isn’t anyone one mention the mandatory conscription in SK. Like that’s huge imo taken away your 2 years of life should play a huge role in anything even athletes. PS I know some top notch athletes get excluded but majority of them don’t.
Don’t forget boxing is solo as well as the majority of what Shohei is doing, so it’s really not all about teamwork. It also can’t just be the modernization thing because plenty of less developed countries produce phenomenal athletes. Maybe they just have a more practical competitive sporting culture than the other East Asian countries. Judo and Sumo being the major ones follow a more western style of competition more or less. China until recently doesn’t seem to have a real head-to-head competitive sporting tradition. Kung fu seems to be more about forms and routines, but the displays of “feats” in kung fu translates well into weightlifting competition which China does excel at. Japan also has more of a warrior tradition because of the feudal system and the warring between clans which translates over into team sports whereas China was mostly unified under one system while periodically dissolving into chaos and civil war. I also have no idea what I’m talking about, lol, but yeah Japan is killing it right now.
I learned a lot from this. Thanks for the history. Things like this interest me. I have noticed that some manga, especially ones involving athleticism, are have realistic roots. Then you might have embellishing. But if you look up the terms, concepts, maybe even some of the tips from teacher/trainer characters, a good bit is legit. As for atmosphere matching, there's a lot of that too. It's not that I didn't believe that what was drawn or animated wasn't true, but I didn't realize *how* true it was. Living there and seeing the trains (especially the ones near fields), the students, the shops, the food, even the sounds of store chimes, the monster crows lol, etc. Japan be on another level
Don’t forget skateboarding and snow boarding. Ayumu Hirano won gold in olympic snowboarding, Yuto Horigome in skateboarding. And bunch of younger kids are crushing it in skateboarding scene. As an American raised in Japan, I’ve been wondering why too. discipline, assiduousness, its openness to different cultures…perhaps not having any strict religious mores might be allowing them to pursue their passsions? ( as you can see in their porn scene lol )
@@clarkl7027 I am not saying Japanese athletes are superior to other Asian athletes. I was just curious about what kinda sociological contexts are behind the rise of these Japanese athletes. I just like to think those kinda stuff. China's dominance in Olympics seems unique compared to other Western countries. It's nothing surprising tho when you think about its population of 1.4 billion with growing economy plus authoritarian government which seems to care Olympic a LOT
@@clarkl7027 I don’t know how its like in China, but yeah in Japan kids spend a lot of time in club activities and hobbies whether it is sports or not. I appreciate that aspect a lot because those kids are not forced to do so but they choose whatever they like and put energy into it. From my personal experience, I feel like the academic expectations/pressure children get from their parents are much less compared to China or South Korea. Of course it is stressful but the intensity of competition in college admissions is not the level like China/S.Korea. And I don’t feel like there are many typical Asian families with authoritarian parenting style in Japan these days. I see it more in the U.S., I mean in Asian American households. It is my personal experiences so it might not be true. Again I’m not saying Japan is better than others, in fact there are bunch of negative aspects in the society. Japan is one of the most homogeneous society with strong conformism, making it suffocating for some, and its economy is shrinking and pretty much doomed.But fortunately many kids in Japan are still allowed to pursue their passions (at least when their are kids lol) . Even though its average income is no longer that high, things are cheap (housing, healthcare) .So you can still raise kids without being rich(I know Japan’s birth rate has been low, but if you do the math I think it is easier to have kids with average income compared to US) . That might be another contributor to the sports scene.
@@clarkl7027 Not everything. That’s why I mentioned economic growth. But you cannot deny the aspect of genetic lottery in excellent athleticism. So having a significantly large population is an advantage. Neither culture nor CCP can make Yao Min 7’6. Lol
1) The Japanese have various values while the Chinese and Koreans are too much materialism and money authoritarianism. As far as future wealth isn't secured, the latters don't embark on mapless journey. 2) The Japanese pursuit the extreme of anything like Japanese craftsman keep challenging the limit of handmade. Japanese athletes regard even western sports as mind discipline like judo players master 'do' (way).
@@baekdumountaintiger5701 Korea teaches children to surpass others especially Japan and jams every exam-pass knowledge. It disturbs to incubate diversity and takes longer time than to educate how to think logically. Also less than 2 years doesn't make much difference. Promising players would revive from 1 or 2 years absence by injury and really promising players would be exempted from military service. Korea should give up raising state-armature of short truck, archery, etc. to earns the numbers of medals in Olympiad.
They tend to have a very can do mindsets about them.....I have been a soccer fan/player for more than 20 years, and one thing I can say about the Japanese player since forever is that they tend to very skillful/technical. Remember Hirotoshi Nakata anyone?
its not only sports . They have been invented so many stuff in history. Please find out what have they invented in the human history? We will be proud of as an Asian.
2nd or 3rd largest economy, the money factor plays a role. It’s not everything, but it does matter. Love the reference to anime though, it also plays a role.
The book Brave Dragons is a good anecdotal book by Jim Yardley about the time former NBA coach Bob Weiss went to coach in China. He compares, contrasts and breaks down his experiences and observations of the infrastructure of the game in China vs the game in the US, as well as the history and culture, and offers plausible reasons for why China doesn't churn out as many NBA players as it could despite all the popularity and the long, meaningful relationship the country has with the sport.
Japan was also the mecca for MMA and Kickboxing for nearly 20 years between K-1 and PRIDE organizations. PRIDE was the largest and most successful MMA org on Earth until a Yakuza scandal cause the promotion to fall and be purchased by the UFC who was the 2nd biggest promotion. K-1 was the Olympics of Kickboxing.. Japan excelled at MMA, Kickboxing, Boxing, Judo and Wrestling. Japan also got that strong Jomon admixture... Just sayin'.
I like how Blasians were included in this conversation. As a black guy who has an interest in other cultures, I'm pleasantly surprised to see this. I think society's moving past the one-drop rule.
Ppl in the US categorizing everything by color is wild. Im the so called Blasian myself but no one calls me that in Japan only ha-fu which means mixed and it’s most of the time positively taken. Same with the term “African American” like that doesn’t make sense when you call someone who’s fully born and raised in the US but calling them like there from Africa. No one calls white Americans the European American’s when they all aren’t from North America like the “African Americans”.
@@vaccinatedanti-vaxxer don’t think he was being serious. Obviously being 1/8th of a samurai doesn’t guarantee you will be the best athletes. Though, it does help. Not all societies have warrior culture too. You can’t tell me, my people, have a warrior culture, so it could help influence them Like why are west Africans disproportionately represented in Soccer? Some of their genomic structure can provide reasoning for thie
Thank you for the video David and Andrew. To Andrew's opinion on Japan's Pacifism: I would disagree with that view, why? A country that's strong militarily, is also usually strong in Olympics and sports! Many times they go hand in hand. Look at USA, Russia, China, Europe, what do they all have in common, even Germany under the "H" guy during the 1930 to 1945, also strong in sports, Olympics, won many medals. Japan's success can be replicated, but it's not easy to do and requires more effort then what South Korea was willing to put in. Copied everything else from Japan, except how to be nice, polite, keep agreements signed, have honor, keep your word and promises made, give credit to to other cultures like China when you copy something. Korea never seem to learn that part. Don't matter poor or rich, communist or democratic, Korea will always be Korea.
@@oneviwatara9384 1. Chinese parents don't allow kids to play sports as a career. 2. "In the western sports", why should an eastern country be interested in it? Japan was heavily influenced by the US after WWII, but I don't see why Korean or Chinese would compete in western sports to be considered great athletes.
@@oneviwatara9384 Many countries got NO player in the NBA but still got higher rankings. I just listed some here. Because this video discusses the youth's athlete development, I want to ensure that Japan is superior to others and then discuss why. Iran is another country with No current NBA player and a lousy economy, but it still ranked higher.
@@oneviwatara9384 Japan has a few outliers(Hachimura, Watanabe) but overall China is still better. There are always solid HS/NCAA D1 prospects coming out of China, on top of native talent, not so much for Japan. There has always been 3-5 borderline NBA players each year from China. For Japan its not as frequent.
Japan despite being never colonized by the west, is heavily influenced by the US, more than the rest of Asia. The sports discussed here were all mainstream western sports (i.e., the sports that the west is good at.), and the western influence resulted in Japan placing more emphasis on certain sports.
Not sure abt your first sentence. Look at the christianity influence in S.Korea. It probably depends on the field. Japan has dominated judo too, a sport not from the West and quite international. Btw "sport" itself is a Western thing in the first place.
Japanese has been westernizing since meiji restoration 1860s. Koreans didn't modernize until it was a Japanese colony in 1910. China is probably the slowest to adopt western culture. None of these countries were colonized by the west (unless you count hong kong) but south korea and Japan had been US occupied countries since 1945. And their economies were supported by US trade. America during the cold war were trying to prove the superiority of capitalism by favorable trade with allied Asian countries.
@@zoan23456 I agree with you as we're not blessed with great weather ,infrastacture , sports facilities ,technology and funding like the Japanese do. I will have to downplay Filipino global sports superiority as most of us will look prioritize food on the table first than waste money on expensive coaches.
Is the Chinese and that's the only right answer. If you want to talk about individual accomplishments, then you can't use "race" as the qualifier. The second you put a "race" or country as the measure, then the Olympics are the best, simplest measure.
Why do japanese automotive plants assemble some of the best cars? Focus & pride. Why are Korean and Chinese girls some of the best golfers? Focus and determination.
This is my personal opinion, but I think Japanese people tend to be underrated and Korean people overrated. For example, in baseball, Korean batters are said to have power, but they only hit around 20 home runs. This number is half of Shohei Otani's. Hideki Matsui's best result is 31. No Korean batter has hit 30 home runs in a season. Korean batters hit few home runs considering their physique. Even Japanese batters can hit around 20 home runs. This is an excellent number for an Asian batter, but it cannot be called slugging. Also, Korean players are said to be big, but in reality, many Korean players who are active in the MLB are small. Choo Shin-Soo is 5 feet 11 inches tall and Ha-Seong Kim is 5 feet 9 inches tall. Neither player is that big.
Japan is way far better than Korea in tennis Osaka in football they beat German and Spain and make tie against Croatia ! Korea just win against portugal who are already qualifying and was awful against Brazil Japan rule in rugby and judo ! Korea just got heug min son Japan team is better is much balance they got very good player at each post ! Sorry for my English I’m from France and I tell you Japan is the better in Asia ! Just look the rugby team they are everywhere
Nishikori un tennis and tsunoda on F1 Korea dont have one good driver in f1 history they don’t know how to drive even China got 1 pilot ! Who care of nfl anybody know nfl outside america it’s not popular Who care of NFL lol rugby is real sport ! No fuckin helmet or protect !
China is great in Olympic weightlifting, wrestling, good at kickboxing, and gymnastics. Filipinos have great MMA fighters and boxers. Mongolians are dominating Sumo and Judo. Thailand literally has Muay Thai LOL
1 gold metal in the Olympics since the last 40 years? Tell me how does that make you guys dominate? Other than manny pacquiao which is a standout in a sport where Mexicans produced hundreds of household name legends, compared to your one. How does that make you guys dominate? And zero filipino born basketball player to ever play in the nba? How does that make you guys dominate?
@@zoan23456hey’re just poor country that barely support its athletes, including lack of support and facilities and technology unlike japan, I couldn’t imagine if the Philippines is a RICH country, I’m sure its people can dominate the ASIA perhaps in the world, the story would have been change, I trust Filipino genes when it comes to athleticism they have that naturally other than Africans.
1 gold metal in the Olympics since the last 40 years? Tell me how does that make you guys dominate? Other than manny pacquiao which is a standout in a sport where Mexicans produced hundreds of household name legends, compared to your one. How does that make you guys dominate? And zero filipino born basketball player to ever play in the nba? How does that make you guys dominate?
WHATTTTT nah bro Korea’s got the best athletes. Ryu Hyun Jin placed 2nd in Cy Young a couple years ago. Shin Soo Choo and Chan Ho Park all stars. Korea also finished the same as Japan and Sonny won the golden boot I don’t think any Japanese player has won the golden boot. Korean Zombie UFC. Kyler Murray half korean starts in the NFL. There’s never been Japanese player who’s played in an NFL game.
Japan has a total population is 125 million, south korea is 51 million. 64 japanese baseball players played in the MLB, 27 korean baseball players played in the MLB. 4 from Taiwan, 1 from China. Korean men's national and Japanese men's national soccer teams played since 1954, with 82 matches so far 42 korean victories, 23 draws, 16 japanese wins. China had 262 total gold medals from all Olympic participation. South korea with 129. Japan with 169. 5 japanese played in the NBA (2 currently), 1 korean played in the NBA. 4 korean born players played in the NFL (not including half koreans born in usa like will demps or partial koreans like Kyler Murray or full koreans born in usa like eugene chung). 12 players in the NFL that was born in japan but none were ethnically japanese including rg3. Most popular sports in japan: #1 baseball, #2 soccer, #3 sumo, #4 tennis Most popular sports in korea: #1 baseball, #2 soccer (unless it's world cup), #3 basketball, #4 esports Most popular sports in China: #1 basketball #2 soccer #3 ping-pong #4 badminton I'm korean but I would say shohei and ichiro are the best asian baseball players of all time. Son and park are probably the best asian soccer players of all time. Pacquiao is probably best boxer
No way you’re mentioning baseball bru Japan literally destroyed South Korea in WBC and won the whole competition, the GOAT is from Japan. The South Korean who played in MLB all have better Japanese counterparts. Japan was ranked higher in WC and currently higher ranked in FIFA rank and Team value JPN 222.85m€ 26th SK 41th 120m€. Japan has the 4th most boxing belts in history. Japan is 9th in all time olympic medals, currently ranked N1 in Mens VNL, Women football world cup winner, Tier 1 Rugby Nation. Japan competes with the world South Korea compete’s with Japan.
BTW: Video was not meant to downplay the accomplishments of ANY other Asian country but rather put a focus on understanding how systems and youth-developmental structure play into probabilities, while putting it within the context of socio-economics and priorities. But yeah if you're going to open it up to debate, cool - we already predicted it earlier in the video 😂
Honestly thought it was a great video I think it would be awesome if you could turn it into a series and talk about the youth development and socio-economics of other Asian countries such as China and Korea just a thought don’t mean to downplay any of your videos keep up the great work!
It's kind of sad that you felt you had to make that disclaimer but this is the Internet we're saying "I like pancakes" means somebody interprets that as "you hate waffles?!"
When someone praises Japan.
No one:
Chinese and South Koreans: 😡
This is soooo true 😂😂
Japan, China, and South Korea are the strongest sports countries in Asia, but where Japan differs greatly from the other two is in the way it trains its athletes. In Japan, sports are encouraged in schools, and many teenagers play sports every day after school in junior high and high schools. In China and Korea, on the other hand, youth sports are not as popular in schools, and the state has taken the initiative to develop elite athletes in order to enhance national prestige. It was not until around 2007, much later than China and Korea, that Japan established a national training center and began to develop elite athletes on a national level. Koreans have often compared this situation to "Japan for life sports" and "Korea for elite sports".
The recent success of Japanese sports is the result of a combination of a huge youth sports population and state-run training for elite athletes. In other words, it is the result of a combination of "life sports" and "elite sports".
Why isn’t anyone one mention the mandatory conscription in SK. Like that’s huge imo taken away your 2 years of life should play a huge role in anything even athletes. PS I know some top notch athletes get excluded but majority of them don’t.
Japan is the best nation in gymnastics and very good in every combat or fighting sports !
Don’t forget boxing is solo as well as the majority of what Shohei is doing, so it’s really not all about teamwork. It also can’t just be the modernization thing because plenty of less developed countries produce phenomenal athletes. Maybe they just have a more practical competitive sporting culture than the other East Asian countries. Judo and Sumo being the major ones follow a more western style of competition more or less. China until recently doesn’t seem to have a real head-to-head competitive sporting tradition. Kung fu seems to be more about forms and routines, but the displays of “feats” in kung fu translates well into weightlifting competition which China does excel at. Japan also has more of a warrior tradition because of the feudal system and the warring between clans which translates over into team sports whereas China was mostly unified under one system while periodically dissolving into chaos and civil war. I also have no idea what I’m talking about, lol, but yeah Japan is killing it right now.
The first Asian American in the NBA is a Japanese American.
Someone should make a movie about him.@aspielaurent
They dropped this video on the same day Rui got traded to the Lakers haha perfect timing
Inoue is a beast of a boxer . Japan have always produced very good boxers
I learned a lot from this. Thanks for the history. Things like this interest me.
I have noticed that some manga, especially ones involving athleticism, are have realistic roots. Then you might have embellishing.
But if you look up the terms, concepts, maybe even some of the tips from teacher/trainer characters, a good bit is legit.
As for atmosphere matching, there's a lot of that too. It's not that I didn't believe that what was drawn or animated wasn't true, but I didn't realize *how* true it was. Living there and seeing the trains (especially the ones near fields), the students, the shops, the food, even the sounds of store chimes, the monster crows lol, etc. Japan be on another level
Don’t forget skateboarding and snow boarding. Ayumu Hirano won gold in olympic snowboarding, Yuto Horigome in skateboarding. And bunch of younger kids are crushing it in skateboarding scene. As an American raised in Japan, I’ve been wondering why too. discipline, assiduousness, its openness to different cultures…perhaps not having any strict religious mores might be allowing them to pursue their passsions? ( as you can see in their porn scene lol )
@@clarkl7027 I am not saying Japanese athletes are superior to other Asian athletes. I was just curious about what kinda sociological contexts are behind the rise of these Japanese athletes. I just like to think those kinda stuff. China's dominance in Olympics seems unique compared to other Western countries. It's nothing surprising tho when you think about its population of 1.4 billion with growing economy plus authoritarian government which seems to care Olympic a LOT
@@clarkl7027 I don’t know how its like in China, but yeah in Japan kids spend a lot of time in club activities and hobbies whether it is sports or not. I appreciate that aspect a lot because those kids are not forced to do so but they choose whatever they like and put energy into it. From my personal experience, I feel like the academic expectations/pressure children get from their parents are much less compared to China or South Korea. Of course it is stressful but the intensity of competition in college admissions is not the level like China/S.Korea. And I don’t feel like there are many typical Asian families with authoritarian parenting style in Japan these days. I see it more in the U.S., I mean in Asian American households. It is my personal experiences so it might not be true. Again I’m not saying Japan is better than others, in fact there are bunch of negative aspects in the society. Japan is one of the most homogeneous society with strong conformism, making it suffocating for some, and its economy is shrinking and pretty much doomed.But fortunately many kids in Japan are still allowed to pursue their passions (at least when their are kids lol) . Even though its average income is no longer that high, things are cheap (housing, healthcare) .So you can still raise kids without being rich(I know Japan’s birth rate has been low, but if you do the math I think it is easier to have kids with average income compared to US) . That might be another contributor to the sports scene.
@@clarkl7027 Not everything. That’s why I mentioned economic growth. But you cannot deny the aspect of genetic lottery in excellent athleticism. So having a significantly large population is an advantage. Neither culture nor CCP can make Yao Min 7’6. Lol
@hironodoubt China is a lot like lance Armstrong he only prepared for the tour de France.
In Japan they love Kristi Yamaguchi. She is a huge celebrity whenever she travels there....
Mitoma is the goat
“They got BLUE CRUSH for the World Cup too”
Blue Lock fans about to 🍽️ this man
💀
Peaked that slip too, and I’m not even into Blue Lock like that! 😂
1) The Japanese have various values while the Chinese and Koreans are too much materialism and money authoritarianism. As far as future wealth isn't secured, the latters don't embark on mapless journey.
2) The Japanese pursuit the extreme of anything like Japanese craftsman keep challenging the limit of handmade. Japanese athletes regard even western sports as mind discipline like judo players master 'do' (way).
ok weeb
@@baekdumountaintiger5701 Korea teaches children to surpass others especially Japan and jams every exam-pass knowledge. It disturbs to incubate diversity and takes longer time than to educate how to think logically. Also less than 2 years doesn't make much difference. Promising players would revive from 1 or 2 years absence by injury and really promising players would be exempted from military service. Korea should give up raising state-armature of short truck, archery, etc. to earns the numbers of medals in Olympiad.
They tend to have a very can do mindsets about them.....I have been a soccer fan/player for more than 20 years, and one thing I can say about the Japanese player since forever is that they tend to very skillful/technical. Remember Hirotoshi Nakata anyone?
It’s Hidetoshi Nakata and yes I remember him
It's all those Sports Manga lighting a fire under the youth
EDIT: yup they mentioned manga
its not only sports . They have been invented so many stuff in history. Please find out what have they invented in the human history? We will be proud of as an Asian.
2nd or 3rd largest economy, the money factor plays a role. It’s not everything, but it does matter. Love the reference to anime though, it also plays a role.
The book Brave Dragons is a good anecdotal book by Jim Yardley about the time former NBA coach Bob Weiss went to coach in China. He compares, contrasts and breaks down his experiences and observations of the infrastructure of the game in China vs the game in the US, as well as the history and culture, and offers plausible reasons for why China doesn't churn out as many NBA players as it could despite all the popularity and the long, meaningful relationship the country has with the sport.
Japan was also the mecca for MMA and Kickboxing for nearly 20 years between K-1 and PRIDE organizations. PRIDE was the largest and most successful MMA org on Earth until a Yakuza scandal cause the promotion to fall and be purchased by the UFC who was the 2nd biggest promotion. K-1 was the Olympics of Kickboxing.. Japan excelled at MMA, Kickboxing, Boxing, Judo and Wrestling. Japan also got that strong Jomon admixture... Just sayin'.
8:26 The blue lock manga/anime is all about correcting the over focus on team skills to cultivate selfish "iso" skills
I am Japanese, but I disagree with this theme.
I already know Japanese are great baseball players before shohei.
The comments man! I guess you should have titled the video “Are the Japanese the best Asian Athletes in Western Sports?”
I like how Blasians were included in this conversation. As a black guy who has an interest in other cultures, I'm pleasantly surprised to see this. I think society's moving past the one-drop rule.
Agreed, though to be fair 1 drop rule is an American thing created for and by white supremacists
Ppl in the US categorizing everything by color is wild. Im the so called Blasian myself but no one calls me that in Japan only ha-fu which means mixed and it’s most of the time positively taken. Same with the term “African American” like that doesn’t make sense when you call someone who’s fully born and raised in the US but calling them like there from Africa. No one calls white Americans the European American’s when they all aren’t from North America like the “African Americans”.
Im from Hawaii of Chinese & Japanese ancestry. Stop the hate! Though I must admit that “sushi” from Safeway is garbage.
The Hong Kong olympic team is definitely the best team from Asia. Won 6 medals with a 7 million population
Had no idea Takehiko Inoue sensei started slam dunk after watching dream team in Japan
Japan is arguebably the best in developing athletes.
It’s the Samurai dna in them. Also they have the best Asian World Cup soccer teams(Men/Women squads)
Mitoma…..remember the name 😊
Samurai DNA? Lol good one!
@@vaccinatedanti-vaxxer likely some of them are descendants of Samurais
@@danielalbo3781 sure but what's that got to do with sports? Which ancient society didn't have their own warriors?
@@vaccinatedanti-vaxxer don’t think he was being serious. Obviously being 1/8th of a samurai doesn’t guarantee you will be the best athletes. Though, it does help. Not all societies have warrior culture too. You can’t tell me, my people, have a warrior culture, so it could help influence them
Like why are west Africans disproportionately represented in Soccer? Some of their genomic structure can provide reasoning for thie
I love Japanese people as black American
I love you too, and black culture
Inoue is a beast!
I have no preference in which asian becomes the star. I just wanna see representation of an Asian man
True. We want someone who is a badass with the way we look.
Thank you for the video David and Andrew.
To Andrew's opinion on Japan's Pacifism: I would disagree with that view, why? A country that's strong militarily, is also usually strong in Olympics and sports! Many times they go hand in hand.
Look at USA, Russia, China, Europe, what do they all have in common, even Germany under the "H" guy during the 1930 to 1945, also strong in sports, Olympics, won many medals.
Japan's success can be replicated, but it's not easy to do and requires more effort then what South Korea was willing to put in. Copied everything else from Japan, except how to be nice, polite, keep agreements signed, have honor, keep your word and promises made, give credit to to other cultures like China when you copy something. Korea never seem to learn that part. Don't matter poor or rich, communist or democratic, Korea will always be Korea.
What you talking about? Chinese are been dominating Olympics 2nd to U.S.
International sports not Olympics.
@@oneviwatara9384 Title is "Athletes"
@@TLiu-1b
Currently non of Chinese best athletes are completing in the Western sports.
@@oneviwatara9384 1. Chinese parents don't allow kids to play sports as a career.
2. "In the western sports", why should an eastern country be interested in it? Japan was heavily influenced by the US after WWII, but I don't see why Korean or Chinese would compete in western sports to be considered great athletes.
Chinese people are literally like a quarter of the world so are they really more athletic? Or is there just way more of them?
Jeremy Lin and Yao Ming?
You forgot about skateboarding sky brown been wining in x games and she's half japanese
Meanwhile, the basketball world ranking: China 27, Japan 38, Korea 37. Data source: FIBA
And Iran, a country who has been sanctioned by the USA for decades, ranked 20
No Chinese players in the NBA?
@@oneviwatara9384 Many countries got NO player in the NBA but still got higher rankings. I just listed some here. Because this video discusses the youth's athlete development, I want to ensure that Japan is superior to others and then discuss why. Iran is another country with No current NBA player and a lousy economy, but it still ranked higher.
@@TerrySitu
Your point about ranking is pointless hence non of Chinese is currently playing in the NBA.
@@oneviwatara9384 Japan has a few outliers(Hachimura, Watanabe) but overall China is still better. There are always solid HS/NCAA D1 prospects coming out of China, on top of native talent, not so much for Japan. There has always been 3-5 borderline NBA players each year from China. For Japan its not as frequent.
Why is his finger broke
Japan despite being never colonized by the west, is heavily influenced by the US, more than the rest of Asia.
The sports discussed here were all mainstream western sports (i.e., the sports that the west is good at.), and the western influence resulted in Japan placing more emphasis on certain sports.
Not sure abt your first sentence. Look at the christianity influence in S.Korea. It probably depends on the field.
Japan has dominated judo too, a sport not from the West and quite international. Btw "sport" itself is a Western thing in the first place.
Japanese has been westernizing since meiji restoration 1860s.
Koreans didn't modernize until it was a Japanese colony in 1910.
China is probably the slowest to adopt western culture.
None of these countries were colonized by the west (unless you count hong kong) but south korea and Japan had been US occupied countries since 1945. And their economies were supported by US trade. America during the cold war were trying to prove the superiority of capitalism by favorable trade with allied Asian countries.
What about Yao Ming???
Blue lock, not Blue crush
How about filipino sports,we have lots of filipino sports popular we have star like manny pacquiao and hidylyn diaz.
Nowhere comparable to japanese sports dominance tho. There is just way more japanese household names compared to the philipines.
@@zoan23456 I agree with you as we're not blessed with great weather ,infrastacture , sports facilities ,technology and funding like the Japanese do. I will have to downplay Filipino global sports superiority as most of us will look prioritize food on the table first than waste money on expensive coaches.
Yes have you not watch any anime ?
SLAM DUNK is goated.
Inoue is my favorite fighter right now. I think he can beat davis in a catachweight
Is the Chinese and that's the only right answer. If you want to talk about individual accomplishments, then you can't use "race" as the qualifier. The second you put a "race" or country as the measure, then the Olympics are the best, simplest measure.
Why do japanese automotive plants assemble some of the best cars? Focus & pride. Why are Korean and Chinese girls some of the best golfers? Focus and determination.
Rui hachimura to the lakers!!!!
This is my personal opinion, but I think Japanese people tend to be underrated and Korean people overrated. For example, in baseball, Korean batters are said to have power, but they only hit around 20 home runs. This number is half of Shohei Otani's. Hideki Matsui's best result is 31. No Korean batter has hit 30 home runs in a season. Korean batters hit few home runs considering their physique. Even Japanese batters can hit around 20 home runs. This is an excellent number for an Asian batter, but it cannot be called slugging. Also, Korean players are said to be big, but in reality, many Korean players who are active in the MLB are small. Choo Shin-Soo is 5 feet 11 inches tall and Ha-Seong Kim is 5 feet 9 inches tall. Neither player is that big.
Jaglish is slowly influent,
YAKUZA is one of the legal mafia in the world.
Genetics 🧬. Japanese have good genetics
Soccer is the World's most popular sport - the most popular/best Asian soccer player right now is South Korean - Son Heung Min.
Much more Japanese players than Korean ones in European top leagues tho.
@@v.d.2738 but none are world class like Son ever...
coz it's rich develop country.. ..duhhh
Japan is way far better than Korea in tennis Osaka in football they beat German and Spain and make tie against Croatia ! Korea just win against portugal who are already qualifying and was awful against Brazil
Japan rule in rugby and judo ! Korea just got heug min son Japan team is better is much balance they got very good player at each post ! Sorry for my English I’m from France and I tell you Japan is the better in Asia ! Just look the rugby team they are everywhere
Nishikori un tennis and tsunoda on F1 Korea dont have one good driver in f1 history they don’t know how to drive even China got 1 pilot ! Who care of nfl anybody know nfl outside america it’s not popular
Who care of NFL lol rugby is real sport ! No fuckin helmet or protect !
Skate surf japan are good in this sport too lol Korea are just good at Gay pop
@@David-zj4lg they don’t care about rugby in Japan. What are you talking about?
@@westhoodqualzini7884 wtf in japan rugby is way popular than you think
@@westhoodqualzini7884re ranked top 10 and hosted the last WC and became top 8 stadium was packed it’s popular than you think
No love for Japanese-American Wat Misaka? He was first non-white player in the NBA in 1946-47. Gets ZERO recognition from anyone.
China is great in Olympic weightlifting, wrestling, good at kickboxing, and gymnastics.
Filipinos have great MMA fighters and boxers.
Mongolians are dominating Sumo and Judo.
Thailand literally has Muay Thai LOL
china good at kickboxing? thats a new one
@@mchammer3180 I promise you. You’ll love it. Like the promotion KunLun fights, there’s some Sanda/SanShou guys who made the transition!
@@clarkl7027 China aint good in volleyball lol . the best Asian team in volleyball is Japanese
Wat? Judo basically has been dominated by Japan. Look at the last Olympic games. Japanese are also great at Volleyball, Wrestling, Swimming and more.
@@clarkl7027 I'm talking about men's
Rui!! 💗
Probably from Australia.
Filipinos be silent but deadly 🤣
1 gold metal in the Olympics since the last 40 years? Tell me how does that make you guys dominate? Other than manny pacquiao which is a standout in a sport where Mexicans produced hundreds of household name legends, compared to your one. How does that make you guys dominate? And zero filipino born basketball player to ever play in the nba? How does that make you guys dominate?
@@zoan23456hey’re just poor country that barely support its athletes, including lack of support and facilities and technology unlike japan, I couldn’t imagine if the Philippines is a RICH country, I’m sure its people can dominate the ASIA perhaps in the world, the story would have been change, I trust Filipino genes when it comes to athleticism they have that naturally other than Africans.
Filipinos.
1 gold metal in the Olympics since the last 40 years? Tell me how does that make you guys dominate? Other than manny pacquiao which is a standout in a sport where Mexicans produced hundreds of household name legends, compared to your one. How does that make you guys dominate? And zero filipino born basketball player to ever play in the nba? How does that make you guys dominate?
Do you want to play ball or work 16 hours a day for Honda
Love Japan but find it’s society too comformist and it’s lack of individuality culture are too painfully obvious.
Chinese is the best
@[Mantis.cyber] xvs1[UNIT] Chinese actually won at Olympics. When team Japan won?🤪
WHATTTTT nah bro Korea’s got the best athletes. Ryu Hyun Jin placed 2nd in Cy Young a couple years ago. Shin Soo Choo and Chan Ho Park all stars. Korea also finished the same as Japan and Sonny won the golden boot I don’t think any Japanese player has won the golden boot. Korean Zombie UFC. Kyler Murray half korean starts in the NFL. There’s never been Japanese player who’s played in an NFL game.
Jun seok yeo also just got signed to Gonzaga for basketball looking like one of the best Asian prospects in general for basketball
@@UnstableYT-u7k US doesn’t exist ?
Fung bros was sleeping on Korean that's why 🤣
Japan has a total population is 125 million, south korea is 51 million.
64 japanese baseball players played in the MLB, 27 korean baseball players played in the MLB. 4 from Taiwan, 1 from China.
Korean men's national and Japanese men's national soccer teams played since 1954, with 82 matches so far 42 korean victories, 23 draws, 16 japanese wins.
China had 262 total gold medals from all Olympic participation. South korea with 129. Japan with 169.
5 japanese played in the NBA (2 currently), 1 korean played in the NBA.
4 korean born players played in the NFL (not including half koreans born in usa like will demps or partial koreans like Kyler Murray or full koreans born in usa like eugene chung). 12 players in the NFL that was born in japan but none were ethnically japanese including rg3.
Most popular sports in japan: #1 baseball, #2 soccer, #3 sumo, #4 tennis
Most popular sports in korea: #1 baseball, #2 soccer (unless it's world cup), #3 basketball, #4 esports
Most popular sports in China: #1 basketball #2 soccer #3 ping-pong #4 badminton
I'm korean but I would say shohei and ichiro are the best asian baseball players of all time.
Son and park are probably the best asian soccer players of all time.
Pacquiao is probably best boxer
No way you’re mentioning baseball bru Japan literally destroyed South Korea in WBC and won the whole competition, the GOAT is from Japan. The South Korean who played in MLB all have better Japanese counterparts. Japan was ranked higher in WC and currently higher ranked in FIFA rank and Team value JPN 222.85m€ 26th SK 41th 120m€. Japan has the 4th most boxing belts in history. Japan is 9th in all time olympic medals, currently ranked N1 in Mens VNL, Women football world cup winner, Tier 1 Rugby Nation. Japan competes with the world South Korea compete’s with Japan.
Ewww sportsball talk
Lolol
Japanese are more invested in Anglo culture and processes. If you go to Japan, you'll quickly see, they don't have much of an advantage.
Watanabe on the nets is a bench player. hes not good at all. he used to be a raptor and he had few good games but hardly ever. lot missed shots .
china's olympic golden medal number is extremely higher than Japan's
so THA ANSWER IS NO
Their population???
wc 2022: japan advanced to the ro16 bc a false goal was given to japan against germany
Tell me you only watch football during WC without telling me you only watch football during WC
@@shun8104 He didn't even watch WC. The goal judged by VAR was in the match against Spain, not Germany.
i mean theres more zainichi in japan than actual ethnic japanese ppl so no surprise there
I remember some delusional Koreans like you tried to insist Ohtani was Korean😂
What about Jeremy Lin and Yao Ming?
Old news.
Best street fighter players too lol