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A 5 page essay comparing the professional sports of Japan and the United States. Though almost every Japanese citizen follows their traditional sport of sumo wrestling, the growth of baseball in popularity and following in recent years has led even the Japanese to refer to it as the national sport. Nearly a mirror image of its American counterpart in administrative structure, it has allowed Japan to add another, unexpected, export: professional baseball players to U.S. teams. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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national holiday, yet the schools were empty and the banks and city hall were closed on Japans Miyako Island. In the center of Hirara town, 10,000 residents of Miyako
Island-20 percent of the islands population-were gathered to cheeringly welcome the team and administrative members of the Orix Blue Wave, Japans number one baseball team of last year, to their
island for the opening of spring training. Team manager Ohgi Akira has become a national hero (Kobe, 1997; p. 32). Organized in 1936, Japans national baseball league has come
into its own over the past ten years, due in large part to the guru-type leadership of Ohgi Akira. In the 1990s, there have been joint tournaments between Japanese
and United States teams, and in 1995, Japan began yet another export to the United States: professional baseball players, in the form of Nomo Hideo, a pitcher protege of
Ohgi Akira. Sports writers and sports fans all over Japan are crediting Akira with nearly-singlehandedly reviving Japanese baseball and pulling it to such a level that many now call it
Japans national sport, replacing even the revered sumo wrestling in popularity (Kobe, 1997; p. 32). Organized into two leagues, the Central and Pacific leagues, twelve teams enthrall the Japanese.
Named by the Japan Professional Sports Association as baseballs Promoter of the Year for bringing "excitement and enthusiasm" (Kobe, 1997; p. 32) into Japanese baseball, he is also a hero
to Japanese businesses. "As the nation pulls itself through a confusing period of social and economic change, Ohgi is held up as a shining example of the type of
educator Japan desperately needs -- one who pushes individualism, open-mindedness and creativity" (Kobe, 1997; p. 32). As is common with American professional sports figures, he publicly endorses specific products
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