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Sports in Japan are a significant part of Japanese culture. Traditional sports , such as sumo and martial arts , as well as Western imports like baseball , association football , basketball and tennis are popular with both participants and spectators.
A depiction of the FIFA World Cup, the most popular sporting event in the world.. Western sports are sports that are strongly associated with the West. [a] Many modern sports were invented in or standardized by Western countries; [1] in particular, many major sports were invented in the United Kingdom after the Industrial Revolution, [2] [3] and later, America invented some major sports such ...
These sports are commonly practiced in schools, along with traditional martial arts. Baseball, soccer, football, and ping pong are the most popular sports in Japan. Association football gained prominence in Japan after the J League (Japan Professional Football League) was established in 1991. Japan also co-hosted the 2002 FIFA World Cup with ...
Sumo (Japanese: 相撲, Hepburn: sumō, Japanese pronunciation:, lit. ' striking one another ') [1] is a form of competitive full-contact wrestling where a rikishi (wrestler) attempts to force his opponent out of a circular ring or into touching the ground with any body part other than the soles of his feet (usually by throwing, shoving or pushing him down).
The first exhibition match named Western Professional Sumo (西洋大相撲) was held in Tsukiji, Tokyo in 1887. The first boxing gym Meriken Training Institute (メリケン練習所) was established in Ishikawachō, Yokohama, Kanagawa by James Hōjō (ジェームス 北條) and Toranosuke Saitō (齋藤 虎之助) in 1896.
Unlike more common forms of Japanese martial arts (e.g. jūdō, karate), kyūdō is one of the Japanese martial arts that has not seen large amounts of mainstream interest in the West. While kyūdō appeared as early as 1898 in Italy, [23] it has appeared in other western countries only in recent times. Many countries have no kyūdōjō, or ...
American colonisation and Christian missionary activities introduced basketball into the Philippines and China, where it became one of their most popular sports. [15] [16] Baseball became popular in East Asia through American contact in the mid-19th century, and further grew after Japan colonised parts of the region, as Japanese colonies increasingly played their coloniser's sport as a way to ...
The Western League (ウエスタン・リーグ) is one of the two minor leagues ("ni-gun") [1] of Japanese professional baseball. The league is owned and managed by the Pacific League of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). The league traces its roots to the Kansai Farm League, a formerly independent baseball league outside the realm of the NPB.