Most sports in Japanese are referred to with borrow words.
フットボール - futtoboru
サッカー - Sakka
バスケットボール - BasukettoboruBut baseball? You think that’s besuboru? Hell nah, that’s mother fuckin yakyu (野球)
To me, that’s the greatest sign there is of how integrated into the culture the sport is.
I would like to see what Japan could pull off playing Banana Ball.
They can have it!
Geef me mijn HONKbal. Het is honkbal hier in Holland. Honk. Bal. Honkbal. In het Japans: honkubalu.
Also Finland
Yeah that’s something we like about Japan. Our countries keep getting into things the other introduces us to.
Ew, Japan. US’ Asiatic Israel. Fuck Japan and the US, if the meme was about China, people would react with more hate, even when they know China was a victim of Japan’s genocide, the Nanjing Massacre, and the Opioid Crisis caused by the British and India not so long ago, and not because China did anything to Japan first before, Japan simply wanted to expand after the Meiji Restoration, and they saw the Chinese as inferior, just the same way Israel does with Muslims or Arabs, they wanted their resources and land, take advantage of their internal instability and so on; it was 100% sadistic greed, and here you are, always glazing Japan like they are fucking awesome and flawless
I can see the US hating Gaza in 100 years just because Gaza became more xenophobic or authoritative to protect themselves as a reaction to the incredible amount of injustice and pain they went through. To see a bunch of Western weebs pull these obvious propagandized contradictions so often is starting to look so evil and petty at the same time. Cannot enjoy memes like these anymore
It’s so weird, and so obvious how most Western people are so cool with Japan but hate China with a passion. I too used to be one of those weebs who’d love Japan more than my own country, because I thought they were elegant, responsible, smart, yada yada, but after meeting a lot of actual Japanese and learning about them, they are as crappy as any other country in the world. Xenophobic racists who cannot even make an anime as good as China’s To Be Hero X. To Be Hero X blew all the top Japanese animes I have seen in my life, like AoT, Death Note, Monster, Inuyasha, JJK is up there, but still would prefer To Be Hero X. Same with their videogames; Gachas like ZZZ are so much more fun than any Nintendo game I have played, from Pokemon to SSBU/Brawl/Melee, Kart, Party, all of them. The food? Man, Chinese is 100000% better, the way they prepare spicy and sweet chicken and blend it with rice, nuts and more, it’s so good. I was never into raw fish or using eggs for everything, so, Japanese food ALWAYS made me gag.
Regarding technology, robots, AI, having a clean city with awesome tech in it, China is already miles ahead than Japan in all of that. Japan is boring, it’s lame, and if you’re still someone who loves it more than China, you’re just a MAGA, you sound just like Trump or Lindsey Graham or pretty much every goddamn republican who talks shit about China. Period. If you even try to argue with me about this, you are automatically a brainwashed blue/red/diet MAGA who still falls for shit like the Fallout series depicting the Chinese as super evil, Marvel movies too, all the Western movies making “red” “communist” Chinese look bad, always malicious, always planning something big and in secret that will destroy all Western Civilization just because they think they are superior or whatever. If you are still that paranoid, and you felt offended by what I said about Japanese culture enough to comment or downvote, you are just a foolish MAGA no matter how much you deny it or try to justify yourself. China suffered a genocide and also the Opioid Crisis caused by the British alongside India. Of course they are strict and harsh nowadays, that’s how you beat a massive drug addiction problem. It’s crazy that Japan is also so fucking strict, probably even more than China, Japan is way more famous regarding depression at work and suicides, but all of you will still criticize China for being “authoritative” and whatnot. Posts like these just make me hate Japan and the US more.
Japan is nothing but USA’s Asiatic Israel. I love both Japan and China, but I wish you all got rid of that stupid bias most have for China only. No better way to do that than humiliate Japan with the truth. Japanese animes and the american dream are dead. The Chinese Century is here to stay now. Deal with it, fools
Baseball, huh?
Their Little League are always top tier, and the best player in MLB is Japanese.
That’s fine. The more the merrier.
How many countries claim football?
Which football?
I didn’t say American football. That’s not really something that would make sense since it’s not the national sport and definitely not a national sport in any other countries.
just say soccer next time. the rest of the world can get football back if they win a super bowl ever
Can’t decide if to down vote you for “soccer” or updoot you for funny. Argh. Got a headache now.
Take this updoot and get out.
The one with the foot and the ball
If it was the American version, the question wouldn’t make any sense.
Rugby is also football. The official name is Rugby Football.
every football game starts with a foot kicking the ball, just say soccer
I feel like sumo is the Imperial sport and baseball is the National sport
Damn, professional KFC eater’s? You really are stealing America’s culture.
Fuckin sigma. Sumo has so much AURA
But, to be sure, it has great physical impact too
Isn’t it more like WWE than Greco Roman Wrestling though?
I’ve been writing brief (a few sentences) breakdowns of many of the daily matches over in the sumo sub. Today (day 9) had some good stuff to check out.
The live videos go down not too long after streaming but this one’s up for now, and I recommend checking out this match. If it’s gone when you get to it the highlights will be up tomorrow.
Even professional wrestling like WWE is more intense in Japan, Strong Style is not a joke you can see the impact difference in striking power
Dude, watch some high level matches, they collide like freight trains, punch each other in the face five times and someone inevitably ends up making a 300 pound mass of muscle and fat their bitch.
It’s all real if thats what you’re asking
oooh… for some reason when they said “WWE” my sleep-deprived brain read “MMA” lel.
A sumo wrestler is like a defensive lineman in gridiron football, combined with a judo competitor. Sumotori can shove their opponent down or out, they can hit with an open hand, they can do BJJ-style “no gi” throws, or grab the belt for leverage and/or do judo-style trips and throws. Yeah they’re fat but beneath that they are like half muscle. Most matches are over in under 30 seconds, many under 10.
For more info see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA8wS_t5Lv8
For English-commented matches see: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/sumo/
That’s why we’re invading Cuba: to teach them baseball! We might even share our American love of classical cars.
Wasn’t Fidel a big baseball player/fan?
Its a joke because there’s a high population of Cubans in the MLB.
Kids, play nice, you can share a national sport, just like everybody else does with footie.
America: No.
So should rugby be called handegg, too?
Rugby is real sport for real men.
It is. And so is American football. You don’t believe that because you’re ignorant, but just because you don’t like or understand a sport doesn’t mean it isn’t a real sport.
Only real men argue seriously in meme conversations.
manly handegg
There are a lot of very valid criticisms of American football. I love it, sometimes in spite of myself, but I won’t fault anyone who thinks it’s an overly-managed made-for-TV snoozefest with no rhythm whatsoever. For better or worse, though, those helmets and pads do not make it any less of a violent “manly” sport. Far from it: they are the way Americans make ourselves feel better about watching a literal bloodsport with a ball.
The way the game moves and the ruleset reward explosive impacts, and the unlimited substitutions mean players are selected and trained to optimize delivering and enduring that violence instead of, say, actually running for 80 minutes. The result is a dozen hits a game that would make a “biggest hits of the season” compilation video for rugby or Aussie rules. Also chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
Hand egg without brain shell.
Vs cushioned hand egg?
Most of the points are scored by kickers these days 😠
still egg
AckSHully an egg has a pointed end and a rounded end. American footballs are prolate spheroids.
I had prolate spheroids once. I spent two weeks in the hospital.
prolate spheroid sounds like a good insult
Or a band name
That’s what happens to colonies. Look at how popular Cricket is in Commonwealth countries.
Most Commonwealth countries, Canada is different because of our close connection with the US.
There’s a group of Indians near me who play cricket every weekend so sometimes I’ll go by and bother them. “You’re playing the game wrong, you know. Have you guys never watched baseball before?” They’re always super nice and will spend ages explaining everything about the sport. They have a level of zeal for the sport which cannot be matched by even us hockey fans. Last summer we went down to the Galapagos and our group was mostly Brits and I would wait until late in the evening after they had started drinking and ask if they play soccer over there, and that is just as much fun to me.
ask if they play soccer
I mean, that is where the word came from originally.
I know the story: “association” → “assoc” → “soccer”, but they apparently didn’t get the memo, and there was much arguing.
We have Rugby and Gaelic Football as our sports from the Commonwealth. We just suck at them because there’s only 3 months a year to play it.
I’m a big guy, so someone decided that I’d be good at Rugby, and I got invited to the high school rugby practice. I had a good time even though the practice was in March and there was a foot of snow on the ground, but to this day, I have zero idea of how to actually play the game.
The worst part of snow is how hard the ground is.
Move ball from one end to the other, touch it down. Don’t throw it forward.
are you saying that japan was a US colony in 19th century?
Pretty much was after WWII.
iirc baseball was japans national sport before ww2
Really? I’m anything but an expert in Japanese history but weren’t they very anti-western back in the empire’s days?
Also not an expert, just talking from what I remember from history class: in the mid 19th century, Japan underwent a period of rapid westernization and industrialization called the Meiji Restoration. This was at least in part a response to western interference in the region, including a pivotal moment when the US forced the country to sign unequal trade deals by showing up with some big naval vessels.
So it was kind of a love-hate relationship. They didn’t like the westerners invading their country, but they also admired them enough that they not only adopted western tech, but also a bunch of social and political customs.
All I know about japanese baseball is the number 34-2
