Why Is Baseball So Popular In Japan?
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- Why Is Baseball So Popular In Japan?
The most popular sport in Japan is baseball. It is popular because its rich history was forged from post-World War 2, and the culture perfectly blends with the sport they love. The game is also popular because competition at every age level matters, it is what people talk about constantly and has the best atmosphere in baseball. The Japanese have very loyal players and fanbases, have their own iconic player, and take pride in developing young superstars that they fully support in the Major Leagues.
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I’m a Japanese-American, and growing up in the states since my youth, I picked up playing basketball and hockey. Didn’t play baseball, but started to follow major leagues in junior high. I have relatives in Japan, and they were playing baseball, and were dreaming to play in high school Summer Koshien, which is almost as crazy and frenzied like NCAA tournament in the US. While many Japanese athletes are playing in various sports leagues in US and Europe like in basketball and soccer, the impact of Shohei, Ichiro, and Matsui is making baseball the sport that Japanese can compete at a high level overseas and be an MVP worthy player, and I just don’t see other sport taking over in Japan very soon.
Nah. Not crazy. Not “crazy.” /
Recent decade, football attendance in Japan is growing rapidly. While baseball fans population in Japan is shrinking. The aging baseball demography foreseen football soon to catch up popularity in next 10-15 years. Meanwhile the PL college incident alarmed the high school baseball image n culture.
Moreover, the high school baseball tournament is monopolized by nhk n a newspaper which rejected other commercial involvement. Which is unlike NCAA with mega resources pumped in by companies from sports science to merchandising etc. the recent stats shown the sports section in economy is staggering for last 25 years. Fortunately there has been changing in mind set in last 4-5 years allowing more companies to contribute in sports management n promotions. Still some sports associations or leagues are still very bureaucratic n conservative.
@@carlnilssonyoung8961追いつけねぇから安心してサッカー応援してていいよ^^
Are you going to make a false history that America won the war and preached baseball like a missionary?
Babe Ruth came to Japan before World War II.Japanese enjoyed baseball even during World War II.
He said that. He stated baseball was there before WWII. However, you can’t argue that Baseball became more popular after the war. Collegiate and professional baseball wasn’t a thing in Japan until after the war. Whether that is from American influence or just internal popularity, I don’t know. But that math is right there.
@@Jay_Force_One I don't know where you are getting your information from, but what you are saying is nothing but lies. Baseball was first introduced to Japan in 1872 when an American English teacher, Horace Wilson, taught students at what is now the University of Tokyo, and in 1904 the traditional match between Waseda University and Keio University began, a match that continues to this day. It is well known that Shiki Masaoka, a poet of the Meiji era in Japan, was a baseball fan, and Eiji Sawamura struck out Babe Ruth in 1934. Also, the Japan Baseball Federation, which is the root of the current NPB, was started in 1936. In other words, both college and professional baseball have existed since before World War II. What "war" are you referring to? World War I? The Russo-Japanese War? Or the American Civil War?
@@Jay_Force_Oneincorrect.
Japanese colleges were playing baseball in the early 1900s there's even a statue of the Americans professor who brought Baseball to Japanese colleges in the late 1800's as a recreational activity. His famous quote "Be Ambitious!"
@@user-rw2zd8nu1zexactly Horace Wilson even has a statue. And his quote "Be Ambitious" is well known in Japan
1:24 No. Baseball was the most popular sport even in the pre-WW2 period. In 1920-30s, high school and college baseball have a lot of fans and there is a record of the population in a stadium in that era.
The first league of Japanese professional baseball was established in 1936 after Tokyo Giants (Today's Tokyo Yomiuri Giants) in 1934, Osaka Tigers (Today's Hanshin Tigers) in 1935, and Nagoya club (Today's Chunichi Dragons) in 1936 are established respectively.
Before the professional league, Amature all Japan and the All-star team of Major League Baseball in the US were matched up in 1931 and 1934. Lou Gehrig came to Japan for both series whereas Base Ruth came to Japan in 1934.
In both series, Japanese amateur selection from colleges and high schools lost all matches. That's why the Japanese decide to establish professional clubs and the league.
Nah. Not a lot of fans. /
@@jordanjohnson9866 Please research Japanese baseball in the pre-WW2 period. JUST DO IT.
you forgot to mention Bozo....... the American pitcher Henry Bozo Wakabayashi is the main reason why it took off in mid 1930's
@@tamehamehaprints3604 Umm. Wakabayashi was a very good player and became popular. But the college baseball in Japan was already very popular when he went to Japan from Hawaii.
After his college baseball carrier, he joinrd tne newly established Japanese professional baseball as a player. But he was not the main reson that the Japanese professional baseball began. There was another storry.
Baseball in Japan was already so big in 1930s that Japanese exported baseball to Korea and Taiwan and become popular there too. Teams from Korea and Taiwan even participated in Koshien tournament in the 1930s.
As a Cuban American who grew up playing baseball, this makes me so proud to see how much love and admiration japan has for baseball.
I want to see a baseball game in Cuba in the future.
Another difference in Japanese baseball is that all of the teams are owned by corporations and it is reflected in most of their team names.
Japanese professional league was established in 1936. It's the before World War 2.
Baseball is possible to have 6 games in a week. It's a business advantage against football.
There is something I love about sport in Japan is that young athlete get real love. In France, where I'm from, nobody give a single duck about what U18 players are doing. Stadiums and arenas are totally empty. For example, Man Utd vs Man City in football U18 can barely get more spectator than both team and their staff united.
Meanwhile Japan get thousands of people to watch two good highschool team play some sports at their national tournament.
I grew up in Japan until I was 16. Then, I came over to the USA. I can honestly tell you that high school baseball in Japan is much like the SEC football. Each school represents its region/state, and people want to brag their hometown team. In Texas, football is king. In Alabama, football is religion. In Japan, baseball is a sacred rite.
The babe Ruth maniac was staged before ww2, which baseball was already nation wide sports. That drew even more popularity as no.1 spectators sports in Japan. Japanese baseball already developed into very different way to play after WW2.
Nothing to do with American servicemen after WW2 in Japan to promote it. Your claim That is very disrespectful to the Japanese.
I was born in Japan, and feel it may be partly because the way the Pitcher faces the batter resembles a Samurai Duel/ a Martial Art match. One on one, and each tries to best the opponent using power, techniques, experience, intelligence, soul, etc.
An interesting tidbit I’d like to mention is that back when my father was attending school in Japan at least at his school and nearby schools in Chiba/Tokyo, the students on the Soccer team were often viewed as students that weren’t able to make the baseball team or weren’t proficient at it. Also, note that in Japan they call football, soccer like the USA. Overall, considering how big Baseball was in the USA when the Japanese were first introduced to it, and how minor American football and Basketball was at the time, and soccer still is, it kind of makes sense why Japan is hooked on 野球⚾️
at 8:24 the uniform number 3 is Shigeo Nagashima aka Mister Baseball who must never be missed in the history of Japanese baseball. He had already been the biggest superstar ever in college baseball, which was as much popular as high school and pro games pre-WW II era through 60s or 70s, brought the public attention into professional baseball. Nagashima and Oh were twin boosters for the sport nationwide, being teammates for Tokyo Yomiuri Giants. Still in Japanese baseball community he is just referred to as "mister".
Because baseball is a mental sport that requires a lot quick thinking and the Japanese are intelligent people.
I think Japanese baseball cool my favorite team is Yomiuri Giants and I would love to go to one of there games one day
One thing to consider about baseball in the Orient: no boring pipe organs. Just the drive and thrill of the people, akin to a rock and roll concert.
Seriously, I watched a documentary about Ryan Sandberg and I felt the energy at Wrigley.
The appreciation for all things baseball as seen in Japan is largely forgotten in America, even among ballfans (since the Nineties). In this sense and in a bit of irony, the nearest thing nowadays is cricket, not Western baseball.
You are wrong, it was number 1 before the war, pro league started in 1936 and koshien, tokyo big 6 was massive pre war
Nagashima is more popular in japan, oh is the goat though, oh is of chinese descent and nagashima is pure japanese
But yeah, japan has amazing atmosphere, the fan culture is far superior than mlb
Also for Koshien they take over Hashins Tigers stadium. Imagine your local high school playing in a MLB ballpark and selling out.
It's extremely interesting to consider certain cultural aspects and how a sport is accepted into that culture, fascinating. Great, brief video!
Japan will never surpass the Euros and Latin Americans in soccer dominance. But has defeated the world in global baseball tournaments numerous times. Soccer is nice, but Baseball gives Japan the best chance to dominate globally
beating football superpowers like germany, spain etc in the worlds biggest sporting event thats the fifa world cup is bigger than winning any title in any other sport
To be fair very few countries take baseball seriously so much. USA occupied japan after WW2 so not surprised baseball is popular there.
@@gabbar51ngh el Baseball es lo más popular en Japón desde antes que los invadiera Estados Unidos en los 40s
High school baseball is more popular than professional one in Japan
The games of spring and summer tournaments are broadcast live on TV and people root for their local team as if the players were their children or relatives
You can see pure enthusiasm in plays by high school students, which makes the games popular
ここでは全く語られてないけど、日本では歌人である正岡子規や、水島新司やあだち充など数多くの漫画家たちが昔から野球漫画やアニメ作品を作って、文化面で若者に野球の魅力を伝え続けてきた歴史があるんですよ
Western sports entered Japan at the same time, but only baseball became popular.
Baseball was very popular in Japan before World War II.
Some reasons are speculated in Japan.
Japanese people prefer to play one-on-one.
Baseball was one-on-one, just like Sumo and Judo, which were popular in Japan
The self-sacrifice tactic of bunt struck a chord with the Japanese.
The action of holding a bat and swinging it is similar to swinging a sword, and this is why the Japanese liked it.
Yah well why don’t they have a team called the samurai or the ronin? Why are they all cereal box mascots?
@@Spabsa The Japanese national team's nickname is Samurai Japan.
@@akanechan3946 yah and what are the mascots in their regular pro leagues? Mostly Goofy cartoon characters. They might as well be some minor league team from middle America. It’s tacky as hell. What do I know though. I don’t even watch MLB. I just wear the hats
That sword and bat analogy is dumb. Not every Japanese was some samurai or Ninja.
What's next? Indians liked cricket because bat is similar to a mace or gada?
Maybe british were present in india and Americans were in Japan. They were even occupied by American military after the war. Baseball was bound to become popular over there.
@@gabbar51ngh
Although not all Japanese were Samurai, the Samurai culture is deeply rooted in Japan.
Since long ago, children have played a popular game called chanbara, in which they imitate a samurai.
Please search and watch these videos in Japanese on You Tube.
You will see that baseball was very popular in Japan before World War II.
・高校野球選手権大会ダイジェスト③[第20回～27回]昭和9年～16年(Engsub High School Baseball Championship Tournament Digest (3) [20th - 27th], 1934 - 1941)
・高校野球選手権大会ダイジェスト② [第13回～19回]昭和2年～8年(Engsub High School Baseball Championship Tournament Digest (2) [13th - 19th], 1927 - 1933)
・1931年 東京六大学野球 早慶戦 (Engsub 1931 Tokyo Big6 Baseball League Waseda University vs Keio University )
・[戦前] 大学野球（早慶戦）/ カラー映像 (Engsub Before World War II College baseball Waseda University vs Keio University color video)
There is also a video of the greatest player in the NPB, Sadaharu Oh, practicing with a Japanese sword.
・【面白映像！野球マニア】王貞治の素振りがヤバすぎる！！(Engsub Funny Video! Baseball Mania] Sadaharu Oh swing is too awesome!!)
Can't believe the Angels continue to lose with two legendary players in Mike Trout and Lorem Ipsum! 😂
All jokes aside, cool video and hoping to catch a NPB game one day
I would love to go to Japan. I like their culture and want to see baseball in Japan.
More countries should make theme songs for their star players!
Well, even before World War II, baseball was the number one sport in Japan.
1933 Koshien Tournament th-cam.com/video/HXmTxySpct4/w-d-xo.html
1931 Tokyo Big6 College Baseball League th-cam.com/video/LQiOM4Z9wMs/w-d-xo.html
Baseball was also the former top sport in the Philippines but basketball has taken over but it's slowly rising to fame again
Oh man that manager entering in on the hovercraft was so bad ass
2:22 ryu, the pitcher of blue jays is korean not japanese
Big boss with Kenny powers entrance vibes😎😎😎
This is ours on the concacaf youtube channel
1800年代後半のヨーロッパでは、地域の人々が集まってサッカーチームを作って、地域の人達に愛されたそのチームは、やがてプロクラブへと進化した。
それと同じように日本では、1900年頃に各地の高校で野球部が創設され、対抗戦が行われていた。それらはプロ化やリーグ化はしなかったものの、やがて全国大会である甲子園大会に繋がり、野球人気は不動のものとなった。ヨーロッパにおけるサッカー人気と日本における野球人気の根本は、地域に根ざし、地域の人達に愛されたものという共通点がある。
This video is more likely explaining HOW rather than WHY😂
This is pretty great
Awesome
9:57 “lorem ipsum” lmao
Howzit and aloha what a kid baseball player for the love of the game I haven’t watch baseball for a while my brother said check out this baseball player a well rounded player hits steals bases pitches it’s fun to watch the angles play keep up your great reporting aloha
You did Ichiro dirty in the thumbnail
The trading thing makes sense culturally but doesn’t that mean that many of the top teams will stay the same and there’s less variety. Each player having a chear that’s interesting
You're welcome Japan
Curacao on the major league baseball youtube channel
small nitpick, but the Blue Jays pitcher Ryu that you show a few clips of in the video is Korean and not Japanese 😊
Hell ya go Japanese your awesome
Please search and watch this one on youtube.
You will see that baseball was very popular in Japan even before World War II.
・1931年 東京六大学野球 早慶戦 (Engsub 1931 Tokyo Big6 Baseball League Waseda University vs Keio University )
・[戦前] 大学野球（早慶戦）/ カラー映像 (Engsub Before World War II College baseball Waseda University vs Keio University color video)
#7 ☕️ that was a really good way to avoid being racist.
Japanese Babe Ruth is not Sadaharu Oh but Shigeo Nagashima. Oh would rather be Hank Aaron. Both of them were in the same team and the team won the league 9 times consecutively. Yomiuri Giants, that team, is called V9.
8:10
1959 to 1980 is not 31 years I guess😂😂😂
the japanese loving baseball is the same as pinoys loving basketball
1:12 that's NOT a Japanese university baseball team.
It's a 1942 American team of Japanese descent from California relocation camp.
Yea, from California.
Can I Ask??
Baseball is popular in Japan because it is turn-based, just like JRPGs.
Shigeo Nagashima
so baseball to japan is like what American football is to USA. Cause I think Baseball is broing af and my favorite sport is American Football
lost in ww2 indirectly brought us Ohtani and Anime, not that only bad thing
This is a very inaccurate, badly researched video. Baseball was No.1 for a long time, but now it has been overshadowed by football (soccer) - and is not the hands down past-time is used to be.
Adding to this, it was also incredibly popular BEFORE WW2 - and people tried everything they can to stop baseball from being banned as a "western custom" under the Kempeitai. HRs were renamed in Kanji (ホームラン⇨本塁打), as well as positions like pitcher (投手), short-stop (遊撃手)etc. Baseball coaches and unions renamed the sport Yakyudo: and by turning the sport into a "Do" (like in Judo or Kendo - do means path, or "a way of life"), the Kempeitai decided to accept the existence.
Also, While Nichibei-Yakyu (Japan - US baseball) was a partial factor - the reason pro-leagues kicked off (until then, the "big 6" college baseball league at Meiji-Jingu stadium was king) was down to a player called Shigeo Nagashima - so popular he was, that his arrival at the Yomiuri Giants spurred massive public interest in the NPB. There was a golden era of the Yomiuri Giants, known as the V9 era (9 years of consecutive league domination from '65~'73) - and the bout between their rivals, the Hanshin Tigers eventually grew to an event that divided Japan.
After this, teams other than the Tigers and Giants began to compete at the same level. However for a long period, the Central League was the considerably more popular league - while the level disparity not so much, the pay gap was considerable. Thanks to a series of star rookies from the Koshien, the Pacific League rise in popularity in the 80s, and surpassed the Central League in the 2000s.
I know you don't have all the time in the world to research, and the language barrier prevents outsiders to attain sufficient information, but the reality is nobody really cared about MLB in Japan, let alone their own pro-leagues. Japan until the 70s was poor - they loved high school, and college baseball with "cheap and cheerful" tickets. The main reason people rooted for US-Japan baseball after the war, was more a chance for the Japanese to show the Americans, the arch enemy that devastated them in the war - that the Japanese can just do just as well, and if not better. They didn't look to the likes of Ruth, or DiMaggio as some god-like saviour that inspired them to play.
Quite true. Fact is that in Japan people doesn't tend to overidolize their athlete superstars (in the sense that they don't waive its civilian responsibilities).
Although it's true that the Americans somewhat helped Japan to strengthen its baseball (post-bellum), the will of the people was key to keep the sport alive.
Japan can support 2 sports like how US supports 4. Besides Japan will always lose to Europe and Latin America in soccer. FIFA World Cup champions is an exclusive Europe and Latin America . That won't change. Japan just has a size disadvantage on average in soccer. Cannot be helped. While Japan actually won world tournaments in Baseball deafening the Americans even. Japan and Asia in general should embrace baseball more because Asia actually wins global tournaments for baseball. (Korea in 2008). Soccer is nice, but Baseball will lead us Asians to more global dominance.
Basically the same story as india with cricket.
日本人だけど、日本では野球はサッカーより圧倒的に人気だよ。しかもサッカーのほうがファンの平均年齢は高いよ
Before I watch the video, I'm going to say Babe Ruth.
NO.. the American named Bozo Wakabayashi ... is why... then the American Wally Yonamine changed the game as well.. aloha
I feel that there are quirky rich celebrities everywhere. Just look at Elon Musk and what he named his child.
I'd recommend reading LA Times' article called "THE RISING SON"
BY DYLAN HERNANDEZ, OCT. 18, 2009 12 AM PT This article shows how Japanese kids are abused in Highschool by the coaches. Because drinking water was considered a sign of weakness, doing so was not allowed by the coach. Practices were so brutal that players resorted to drinking directly out of a dirty river that ran behind the baseball field.
If that weren’t bad enough, KURODA HIDEKI received an added punishment for pitching poorly. He and another pitcher were told to run nonstop for four days in a row. They were expected to continue running throughout the night.
I wouldnt say that baseball is so much "popular" in Japan, but that it is such a mainstream part of daily life that is almost woven into the culture, in the way that american football has become a central part of America's main "cultural activities" (try to imagine Thanksgiving or New Year's without football). In Japan, most baseball games are on free-to-air TV, which means that (unless there is some big championship or World Cup type event on pay-per-view) they are the go-to background video in any small bar or eatery in the country.
Every single night. With matches starting just as folks are getting out of work.
And in most major cities in Japan, these days, those eateries are where most people eat dinner. Baseball is everywhere.
But I wouldnt describe that as "popularity". Name nearly ANY other sport and youll find that fans are far more passionate about it. That not only goes for major sports like soccer, sumo and rugby, but even things like long-distance running, volleyball and curling! Im not saying there arent a few people who REALLY love baseball, but I dont think THAT many would pay to watch games if they were not on free TV, every single night. And though there are some folks who would stay up late or get up early to watch Shohei pitch, nobody would do so for Japanese teams. Football (soccer) by comparison, can draw huge viewerships at 2AM.
Sorry but Tony gwynn and Ted Williams are the greatest average hitters ever and bonds is the best combo of power and average. Not ichiro, and I like ichiro
I like the japanese game more. I like the fundamentals
Recent decade, football attendance in Japan is growing rapidly. While baseball fans population in Japan is shrinking. The aging baseball demography foreseen football soon to catch up popularity in next 10-15 years. Meanwhile the PL college incident alarmed the high school baseball image n culture.
Moreover, the high school baseball tournament is monopolized by nhk n a newspaper which rejected other commercial involvement. Which is unlike NCAA with mega resources pumped in by companies from sports science to merchandising etc. the recent stats shown the sports section in economy is staggering for last 25 years. Fortunately there has been changing in mind set in last 4-5 years allowing more companies to contribute in sports management n promotions. Still some sports associations or leagues are still very bureaucratic n conservative.
That’s what ichiro is worrying about baseball development in Japan. Especially in schools. That’s why ichiro involves so much jn boys n girls high school baseball in last 2 years.
I laugh at westerners who think Japan can't support 2 sports. USA has 4 sports they follow. Problem with Soccer is the Euros and Latins will always dominate over the Asian Nations in global tournament. Japan actually defeated the World twice including the Americans in the World tournament of Baseball, the WBC. Baseball gives Japan the best chance of global dominance in sport
@@HoshizakiYoshimasa I understand what u wrote about the facts. Somehow I don’t understand your point
Boring people love boring sport
やきうは高齢者人気のスポーツだから日本や韓国で人気があるんですよ😂
football is as popular as baseball in japan and it will overtake baseball in the future..people are falling in love with football and baseball is dying
WHY??? correct A: is... the American Henry Bozo Wakabayashi started it all with his dominating pitching in mid 1930s,
...then the 'Jackie Robinson of Japan', an American (and former SF 49er running back) named Wally Yonamine changed the game forever, by stealing home, drag bunting, and hard sliding! period! aloha