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[–] grue@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago (5 children)

To me, the least accurate part is picking baseball to represent the right. I would've gone with wrestling, NASCAR, or maybe even football.

(I know the Japanese play baseball themselves... maybe it has a right-wing connotation there that's influencing the choice?)

[–] force@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

One of the first words Japanese language learning resources teach you is the word for baseball. It's 野球 yakyuu ("field ball") btw

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

棒球 (bàngqiú) in Chinese. Sort of means "stick/bat ball", but also maybe "awesome ball".

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah that was a bit weird.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Japan has one of the more popular gridiron football scenes outside of the US. They also have one of the biggest wrestling & motorsports scenes. That said, I wouldn’t be calling any sport really political on one side or the other but a general working-class pasttime.

[–] Drusas@kbin.run 1 points 3 months ago

Definitely NASCAR.