Wager Mage
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Baseball Baseball has been the most popular sport in Japan for years because it has the longest history of professional league in Japan. Even high school baseball is taken very seriously, with the National High School Baseball Championships (or Koshien) a much-watched event every summer.
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Read More »The sporting world is focused on Tokyo right now with the Tokyo Olympics 2020 finally taking place (albeit over a year late and under continued difficult circumstances). Japan has a history of hosting great sports events before with the 1964 Olympics, the 1972 and 1998 winter olympics, the 2002 Soccer world cup and the 2019 Rugby World Cup. Later this year Japan will play host to the Fifa Club World Cup for the 9th year in the event’s 18 year history. But besides hosting major sporting tournaments, what sports are actually popular all year around with the Japanese public? Below, we take a look a the top 10 sports in Japan in terms of popularity.
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Read More »Long before football, there was an ancient “kick ball” sport called cuju that developed in China and spread to Korea as well as Japan, where it was renamed “kemari”. Kenmari was a gave of keeping the a leather ball off the ground using one’s feet and was played by the Japanese royal family since 1400 years ago. Fast forward to the 19th century, the modern sport of football (a.k.a. soccer) was introduced to the country by Lieutenant-Commander Archibald Lucius Douglas of the British Royal Navy, who taught it to Japanese navy cadets between 1873 and 1879. While football associations were organized in the 1920s, it wasn’t until 1930 that Japan had a national team. And in 1936, Japan made its debut at the Berlin Olympic Games, where it celebrated its first victory in a 3-2 win over Sweden. The first organized national league was organized in 1965, consisting of eight amateur company clubs. It remained semi-pro until 1992, when the Japan Professional Football League, commonly known as J.League, was formed. There are now 18 professional soccer clubs in Japan and a number of star players have emerged from J.League that have gone on to play at major clubs around the world. In addition to these leagues, the Japanese national football team emerged as one of the best football national teams in Asia since the 1990s, they soon won the AFC Asian Cup with a record of four times, in 1992, 2000, 2004 and 2011 while at the same time they participated regularly in FIFA World Cups. And it is enough to say that the Japanese national football team qualified for the the last six consecutive FIFA World Cups and reached the second round in three editions: 2002, 2010, and 2018. The men’s national team is known as the Samurai Blue.
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Read More »Golf remained almost exclusively a sport for expats and Western-educated Japanese for some time. The opening of a course in Tokyo in 1914 introduced it to members of Japan’s more traditional elite, with interest quickly expanding to see 71 courses opened across the country by 1940. Following World War II, the Japanese social class system was disrupted and more and more members of the new middle class began playing golf, creating a new wave of players. Golf was a new venue for conducting business and a sign of upward mobility until the collapse of the economic bubble in the early 1990s. The Japan Golf Tour was founded in 1973 and as of 2006 it offers the third-highest annual prize fund out of the regular players (non-seniors tours) after the PGA and European Tours. Japan has produced many great golfers over the years, but the first Japanese player to win a major was Hideki Matsuyama who won the US Masters earlier this year. Whilst this list stops at the top 5, we can summaries the rest of the top 10 as follows
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