Now I’m curious as to how many foreign sports have native words. Pretty much baseball and ping pong I think, unless you want to call mountaineering a foreign sport.
credited with the “birth” of Japanese baseball, … goes to Hiroshi Hiraoka, a Japanese railway engineer who was a student in America (not to mention a huge Boston Red Sox fan).
LOL doubly so for anyone guessing the inspiration of the comic.
You you really think it would be Red, White, & Blue imported but nah just freaking loved Baseball.
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Baseball.
Seriously Japan loves baseball and the mascots that come with it.
Yeah, they even have native word for it, I mean not even a kanji written loanword like sacca or baskettoboru
No shit? What’s the word?
It’s やきゅう, yakyū
Cool, TIL, thanks!
Now I’m curious as to how many foreign sports have native words. Pretty much baseball and ping pong I think, unless you want to call mountaineering a foreign sport.
Baseball was possibly the first team sport introduced to Japan - circa 1870.
Blew my mind it wasn’t a postwar thing.
LOL doubly so for anyone guessing the inspiration of the comic.
You you really think it would be Red, White, & Blue imported but nah just freaking loved Baseball.
The weeaboo / westaboo exchange goes back to the Edo period.