Japanese Baseball History Exactly when baseball arrived in Japan isn't clear. Horace Wilson, a professor in Tokyo, is credited with introducing the American game to his students during the Meiji Era (1867-1912). This was the beginning of the assimilation of the Western game which the Japanese named Yakkyu, meaning "field ball." Since then, the game has developed into a popular pastime for the Japanese. During the Meiji restoration, as the Japanese began a process of …showed first 75 words of 1930 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1930 total…ways Japanese baseball is made into a model of what the Japanese are. In America we try to make lessons and draw analogies to baseball as to who we are. Baseball is seen in Japan as a reflection of something the Japanese made in their own image. They do not look to baseball for lessons like in the US. If you want to be a good baseball player in Japan you are a corporate man.”