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[–] [email protected] 70 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Baseball.

Seriously Japan loves baseball and the mascots that come with it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, they even have native word for it, I mean not even a kanji written loanword like sacca or baskettoboru

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Cool, TIL, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Now I'm curious as to how many foreign sports have native words. Pretty much baseball and ping pong I think, unless you want to call mountaineering a foreign sport.