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The tournament, organized by the Japan High School Baseball Federation and Asahi Shimbun, takes place during the summer school vacation period, culminating in a two-week final tournament stage with 49 teams in August at Hanshin Koshien Stadium (阪神甲子園球場, Hanshin Kōshien Kyūjō) in the Koshien district of Nishinomiya City, Hyōgo ...
However, the tournament and high school baseball itself were far from the eventual heights of their popularity at the time, and 33 years passed before a Kantō team won another championship; that victory by Shōnan High in the summer of 1949 is regarded as the first passing of Hakone.
While finishing in the top teams generally guarantees an invitation, it is up to the Japan High School Baseball Federation to determine invitees. For instance, in the 2008 Fall Tournament in the Tōhoku region, Ichinoseki Gakuin was the runner-up.
A team with ties to the ethnic Korean community for the first time has won Japan's famous high school baseball tournament, known as the "Koshien." Kyoto International High School on Friday won the ...
The highest level of baseball in Japan is Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), which consists of two leagues, the Central League and the Pacific League, with six teams in each league. [3] High school baseball enjoys a particularly strong public profile and fan base, much like college football and college basketball in the United States; the ...
The home field, Koshien Stadium, is used by high school baseball teams from all over Japan for the national championship tournaments in spring and summer. The summer tournament takes place in the middle of the Tigers' season, forcing the Tigers to go on a road trip and play their home games at Kyocera Dome Osaka. Fans call this "The Road of Death".
1946.12 Japan Students Baseball Association becomes the parent organization; 1947.04 In accordance with the school system reform the name changes to the All-Japan High School Baseball Federation; 1956.08 National High School Soft-baseball Tournament first held; 1963.02 Accompanying the privatization, the name becomes the Japan High School ...
Japanese High School Baseball Championship; Japanese High School Baseball Invitational Tournament; K. Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball; Kōshien (series) N. Netto Koshien