Most sports in Japanese are referred to with borrow words.
フットボール - futtoboru
サッカー - Sakka
バスケットボール - BasukettoboruBut baseball? You think that’s besuboru? Hell nah, that’s mother fuckin yakyu (野球)
To me, that’s the greatest sign there is of how integrated into the culture the sport is.
I would like to see what Japan could pull off playing Banana Ball.
They can have it!
Yeah that’s something we like about Japan. Our countries keep getting into things the other introduces us to.
Geef me mijn HONKbal. Het is honkbal hier in Holland. Honk. Bal. Honkbal. In het Japans: honkubalu.
Also Finland
Why did you use THAT flag?
That’s fine. The more the merrier.
I feel like sumo is the Imperial sport and baseball is the National sport
Sumo’s the national sport but baseball is the popular one. People even get excited for the high school national baseball tournament. I don’t think people care about watching any sports in the US below the college level.
Fuckin sigma. Sumo has so much AURA
But, to be sure, it has great physical impact too
Isn’t it more like WWE than Greco Roman Wrestling though?
I’ve been writing brief (a few sentences) breakdowns of many of the daily matches over in the sumo sub. Today (day 9) had some good stuff to check out.
The live videos go down not too long after streaming but this one’s up for now, and I recommend checking out this match. If it’s gone when you get to it the highlights will be up tomorrow.
Even professional wrestling like WWE is more intense in Japan, Strong Style is not a joke you can see the impact difference in striking power
Dude, watch some high level matches, they collide like freight trains, punch each other in the face five times and someone inevitably ends up making a 300 pound mass of muscle and fat their bitch.
A sumo wrestler is like a defensive lineman in gridiron football, combined with a judo competitor. Sumotori can shove their opponent down or out, they can hit with an open hand, they can do BJJ-style “no gi” throws, or grab the belt for leverage and/or do judo-style trips and throws. Yeah they’re fat but beneath that they are like half muscle. Most matches are over in under 30 seconds, many under 10.
For more info see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA8wS_t5Lv8
For English-commented matches see: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/sumo/
It’s all real if thats what you’re asking
oooh… for some reason when they said “WWE” my sleep-deprived brain read “MMA” lel.
Damn, professional KFC eater’s? You really are stealing America’s culture.
Baseball, huh?
Their Little League are always top tier, and the best player in MLB is Japanese.
That’s why we’re invading Cuba: to teach them baseball! We might even share our American love of classical cars.
Wasn’t Fidel a big baseball player/fan?
Its a joke because there’s a high population of Cubans in the MLB.
Ew, Japan. US’ Asiatic Israel. Fuck Japan and the US, if the meme was about China, people would react with more hate, even when they know China was a victim of Japan’s genocide, the Nanjing Massacre, and the Opioid Crisis caused by the British and India not so long ago, and not because China did anything to Japan first before, Japan simply wanted to expand after the Meiji Restoration, and they saw the Chinese as inferior, just the same way Israel does with Muslims or Arabs, they wanted their resources and land, take advantage of their internal instability and so on; it was 100% sadistic greed, and here you are, always glazing Japan like they are fucking awesome and flawless
I can see the US hating Gaza in 100 years just because Gaza became more xenophobic or authoritative to protect themselves as a reaction to the incredible amount of injustice and pain they went through. To see a bunch of Western weebs pull these obvious propagandized contradictions so often is starting to look so evil and petty at the same time. Cannot enjoy memes like these anymore
It’s so weird, and so obvious how most Western people are so cool with Japan but hate China with a passion. I too used to be one of those weebs who’d love Japan more than my own country, because I thought they were elegant, responsible, smart, yada yada, but after meeting a lot of actual Japanese and learning about them, they are as crappy as any other country in the world. Xenophobic racists who cannot even make an anime as good as China’s To Be Hero X. To Be Hero X blew all the top Japanese animes I have seen in my life, like AoT, Death Note, Monster, Inuyasha, JJK is up there, but still would prefer To Be Hero X. Same with their videogames; Gachas like ZZZ are so much more fun than any Nintendo game I have played, from Pokemon to SSBU/Brawl/Melee, Kart, Party, all of them. The food? Man, Chinese is 100000% better, the way they prepare spicy and sweet chicken and blend it with rice, nuts and more, it’s so good. I was never into raw fish or using eggs for everything, so, Japanese food ALWAYS made me gag.
Regarding technology, robots, AI, having a clean city with awesome tech in it, China is already miles ahead than Japan in all of that. Japan is boring, it’s lame, and if you’re still someone who loves it more than China, you’re just a MAGA, you sound just like Trump or Lindsey Graham or pretty much every goddamn republican who talks shit about China. Period. If you even try to argue with me about this, you are automatically a brainwashed blue/red/diet MAGA who still falls for shit like the Fallout series depicting the Chinese as super evil, Marvel movies too, all the Western movies making “red” “communist” Chinese look bad, always malicious, always planning something big and in secret that will destroy all Western Civilization just because they think they are superior or whatever. If you are still that paranoid, and you felt offended by what I said about Japanese culture enough to comment or downvote, you are just a foolish MAGA no matter how much you deny it or try to justify yourself. China suffered a genocide and also the Opioid Crisis caused by the British alongside India. Of course they are strict and harsh nowadays, that’s how you beat a massive drug addiction problem. It’s crazy that Japan is also so fucking strict, probably even more than China, Japan is way more famous regarding depression at work and suicides, but all of you will still criticize China for being “authoritative” and whatnot. Posts like these just make me hate Japan and the US more.
Japan is nothing but USA’s Asiatic Israel. I love both Japan and China, but I wish you all got rid of that stupid bias most have for China only. No better way to do that than humiliate Japan with the truth. Japanese animes and the american dream are dead. The Chinese Century is here to stay now. Deal with it, fools
Sir, this is a Benihana.
That’s what happens to colonies. Look at how popular Cricket is in Commonwealth countries.
Most Commonwealth countries, Canada is different because of our close connection with the US.
There’s a group of Indians near me who play cricket every weekend so sometimes I’ll go by and bother them. “You’re playing the game wrong, you know. Have you guys never watched baseball before?” They’re always super nice and will spend ages explaining everything about the sport. They have a level of zeal for the sport which cannot be matched by even us hockey fans. Last summer we went down to the Galapagos and our group was mostly Brits and I would wait until late in the evening after they had started drinking and ask if they play soccer over there, and that is just as much fun to me.
ask if they play soccer
I mean, that is where the word came from originally.
I know the story: “association” → “assoc” → “soccer”, but they apparently didn’t get the memo, and there was much arguing.
We have Rugby and Gaelic Football as our sports from the Commonwealth. We just suck at them because there’s only 3 months a year to play it.
I’m a big guy, so someone decided that I’d be good at Rugby, and I got invited to the high school rugby practice. I had a good time even though the practice was in March and there was a foot of snow on the ground, but to this day, I have zero idea of how to actually play the game.
The worst part of snow is how hard the ground is.
Move ball from one end to the other, touch it down. Don’t throw it forward.
are you saying that japan was a US colony in 19th century?
Pretty much was after WWII.
iirc baseball was japans national sport before ww2
Really? I’m anything but an expert in Japanese history but weren’t they very anti-western back in the empire’s days?
Also not an expert, just talking from what I remember from history class: in the mid 19th century, Japan underwent a period of rapid westernization and industrialization called the Meiji Restoration. This was at least in part a response to western interference in the region, including a pivotal moment when the US forced the country to sign unequal trade deals by showing up with some big naval vessels.
So it was kind of a love-hate relationship. They didn’t like the westerners invading their country, but they also admired them enough that they not only adopted western tech, but also a bunch of social and political customs.
All I know about japanese baseball is the number 34-2
Who cares though? Rednecks care and who cares what they care about.
Redneck here. I dont give a fiddlers fuck about baseball.
Every rule has an exception. 🤷
Stick your generalizations up your ass then.
And then you go stereotypical. 🙄
Ditto homie. We should all reflect on our shortcomings.
