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Pages in category "Sports originating in Japan" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Airsoft; B.
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. Sumo is considered Japan's national sport. Baseball was introduced to the country by visiting ...
The word washoku (和食) is now the common word for traditional Japanese cooking. Washi, craftsmanship of traditional Japanese hand-made paper 2014 01001: Washi (和紙) is traditional Japanese paper processed by hand using fibers from the inner bark of the gampi tree, the mitsumata shrub, or the paper mulberry (kōzo) bush.
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 ...
The statistics also do not take into account minority groups who are Japanese citizens such as the Ainu (an aboriginal people primarily living in Hokkaido), the Ryukyuans (from the Ryukyu Islands south of mainland Japan), naturalized citizens from backgrounds including but not limited to Korean and Chinese, and citizen descendants of immigrants ...
Japan is not a party to the South China Sea issue and has no right to intervene in China-Philippines maritime matters, a spokesperson for China's embassy in Japan said on Friday. Japan's foreign ...
Japan sport-related lists (4 C, 15 P) + Men's sport in Japan (2 C, 7 P) Women's sport in Japan (22 C, 11 P) Youth sport in Japan (4 C, 4 P) B. Bilateral sports ...
Budō is a compound of the root bu (武:ぶ; wǔ in Chinese), meaning "war" or "martial"; and dō (道:どう; dào in Chinese), incorporating the character above for head and below for foot, meaning the unification of mind and body "path" or "way" [4] (including the ancient Indic Dharmic and Buddhist conception of "path", or mārga in Sanskrit [5]).