If you're a fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers' billion-dollar duo of Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, you might want to learn a couple of Japanese adjectives. Try these as the Dodgers and Padres are in South Korea to open the MLB season.
There's “shinjirarenai," which translates as “unbelievable” or “incredible.” Or the milder “subarashi,” which can mean “awesome” or “amazing."
Baseball was introduced into Japan in 1872 by an American professor. It took root so firmly that in a game between Japanese and Americans in 1896, Japan won 29-4 and many of the players were from Samurai families. Ohtani's high school coach was Hiroshi Sasaki, who gets some of the credit for developing Ohtani. His own son 18-year-old Ritaro Sasaki will attend Stanford University this spring. The left-handed hitting first baseman is skipping the Japanese baseball draft and heading to the United States.
Japan has the “Cool Japan” image abroad, and many things funciton remarkably, but there is uncertainty on many fronts and they include an on-going corruption scandal around the Tokyo Olympics — held in 2021 because of the pandemic — and the tense relationship with Asian rival China.It also was in 1934 when Babe Ruth and other American all-stars headlined a playing tour of Japan.
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