Darvish Mania
It’s baseball time. I watched the Boston Red Sox beat the hell out of the Tokyo Giants last night in an exhibition game and the Bo Sox and Oakland A’s will play the first game of the ‘08 MLB season tomorrow night at the Tokyo Dome. The Japanese pro baseball season is getting started as well.
I was surprised to see this interesting article on Yahoo Sports about Yu Darvish, the 21 year-old half-Japanese half-Iranian pitcher for the Nippon Ham Fighters. He is the biggest thing going right now in Japanese sports. This guy is everywhere. Even if you aren’t a baseball fan I thought it provides a pretty good look at the crazy hype that surrounds athletes and celebs in Japan and how Darvish has broken the mold.
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Have you seen the 3/5 African American 1/4 Japanese Enka singer, Jero?
http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=3695
You can find his stuff on youtube, he’s actually really good. Props to him.
NICE! Any country where you can go to the ball park and drink lots of beer while you watch the game is a good place to be in my book.