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[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Baseball.

Seriously Japan loves baseball and the mascots that come with it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, they even have native word for it, I mean not even a kanji written loanword like sacca or baskettoboru

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Cool, TIL, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] mindbleach 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Baseball was possibly the first team sport introduced to Japan - circa 1870.

Blew my mind it wasn't a postwar thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mindbleach 1 points 2 months ago

The weeaboo / westaboo exchange goes back to the Edo period.