How Japan Took Over Baseball

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[よしくん-kn]

The gutsy, traditional Japanese baseball culture showcased in this video is changing. The high school that won last year's Koshien Championship adopts the principle of "enjoying baseball" and allows freedom in hairstyles as well.

[mikaellund]

As an American who spent 3 years growing up in Nagoya Japan. Watching the Nagoya Dragon baseball team is something I will never forget. Made it onto the jumbo-tron 3 times in a game and the crowd was WILD yet respectful. Drums, chants, cheers. Great life experience.

[themail]

I'm not that into baseball, but this channel is one of the best things in sports journalism today.

[onlyDoti]

If you watched/read Ace of Diamond, you cried watching this. The amount of heart these kids have brings me to tears.

[eastxsidexswagg]

An hour long BDE video? What did we do to deserve this blessing??

[daylight]

As someone who has played in the Japanese little league for a few years I can attest that these Japanese little league teams are insane. My team didn't personally practice more than a few hours a week, and it showed. Against the Japanese teams, our team was absolutely horrible and once got a game called in the 3 inning because we were losing 27 to 3, even though most of our players were at least a few years older than most of the other team. They just had an ungodly ability to make hard contact, and their pitching was leaps and bounds above anything I had seen before. Japanese little league is no joke.

[Gehenaus]

I'm just some random British bloke who has never watched baseball in my life but this video is sensational

[jonathantomis]

I used to work at a hotel in Torrance California. There was a Japanese team that was visiting to play a tournament. On a day where I left work very late in the evening the entire pitching squad was out in the parking lot at around 10:00 p.m. practicing mechanics with their manager. Unbelievable dedication!

[yaniyuhara]

I was a baseball player when I was growing up in 70’s. Coach pushed us so hard in the middle of summer practicing WITHOUT water, I ended up having kidney stone! The big scar on my left side is my reminder that hard practice without scientific evidence is nothing but stupidity ! I still love Japanese baseball. But I think I like it better with modern scientific Japanese baseball. Hail to Ohtani !

[sootchh]

A factual error regarding Ohtani: he wanted to come to the MLB as soon as he graduated from high school, but the team who drafted him, Nippon Ham Fighters, persuaded him not to be too hasty. They drew up a "business plan" which would better prepare Ohtani as a pro, both as a hitter and pitcher, so he would be ready for MLB a few years later. They wanted him to succeed first in the NPB, and then send him off.

[InsanelyDank]

Japanese players who go to the MLB always say that one of the hardest things they have to adjust to, is the minimal amounts of practice they get before the game. Seiya Suzuki, known quite famously in Japan for practicing a lot despite his already successful career in npb, said in an interview that he had to find time to practice by himself in the MLB, since practice sessions before games are extremely short, and major league players simply don’t practice as much as normal npb players.
Really shows the difference in culture between the two.

[kitbits]

This channel changed my life when I stumbled on this video.

I knew nothing about baseball and now I can't live without it... I even changed my Japan itinerary and visited a bunch of stadiums including koshien + the hall off fame museum. Now I'm following MLB religiously and went to my first game (blue jays v. dodgers). All of that happened literally in a span of 3 months from watching this video lmao... I wish I'd gotten into it sooner! So excited for post-season.

[willchu]

As a Taiwanese I loved this video, baseball in Taiwan is basically the little brother of japan and although we have a very powerful baseball team it’s nothing compared to how powerful Japanese baseball has become in the last 5 years. We loved watching npb in Taiwan and have tried to learn more and more from Japan aswell

[SabrinaMcMillan-fv]

As a 23 year old Japanese guy who played baseball for 12 years in Japan, this content is so fun to watch.
When in it comes to abusing, when I was in junior high school, I got kicked at my belly by a coach, but it was totally fineI got used to it and he’s too old no power
When I was in high school, we were so focused on baseball to go to “Koshien”.
In Japan, we have almost no rest day, personally when I was in a junior high school n high school, we had only one rest day in a week. I dumped my girlfriends cuz I wanted to practice it more and I had to study for uni we rarely had time to hang out with friends
But this memory in high school is my treasure

[dmdeester]

Jimmy Dugan: "There's no CRYING in baseball!!!"
Japanese Baseball manager: "There IS crying in baseball!!!"

[bryanelder]

I spent the last year as a nurse talking baseball and Shohei Ohtani with a 90 year old resident. The joy he had for baseball was addictive.

[solenstyle]

Nomo should be in the hall of fame, simply for his impact on the baseball world. You can't tell the story of baseball without Nomo.

[meetra]

One fact I'd like to add about koshien and best performances:

There was one player named Seiichi Shima, who back in 1939 pitched 5 games, allowed 5 hits, 5 shutouts, 57 Ks, and 2 no hitters in the semi finals and finals which earned him the nickname "The legendary pitcher". Sadly he was killed in ww2 before he ever got the chance to play professionally

[blackflagnation]

I played baseball on an American high school team in Japan. Our main competition was the other international schools and US military base schools in the area, but we would also play Japanese schools during the season. Mind you, none of the Japanese schools we played were Koshien caliber, but they would smoke us every time.

[pete]

I had a small skinny Japanese kid on my little league team who just moved to America. That was many years ago, but he’s one of my only teammates I remembered. He threw like a rocket, perfectly accurate throws from the outfield or from 3rd to 1st, like 70 mph when the rest of us probably only threw 40 mph