Talk:Sports in Japan/Archive 1

Baseball as National Sport
Baseball is considered Japan's national sport. Really? Who says? Sumo is the official national sport, though less popular than baseball. Baseball is fast loosing ground to soccer especially among younger Japanese.

Ekiden/relay race
This page lists ekiden as an original Japanese sport, rather than imported. I thought ekiden was simply a relay race. Is it truly original, or imported, or are there significant differences in the Japanese variety (other than the place)? Fg2 05:34, Sep 9, 2004 (UTC)
 * It may be, but I don't think any other place let ekiden broadcasted live for the entire proceeding, often lasting more than 3 hours. The most famous ekiden race, Hakone Ekiden traces the route that has been in use for over a 1300 years and the race itself is more than 50 years old.  It's broadcasted live for over 7 hours.  I think that's quite significant. Revth 04:13, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The "Elmo" period
Theres some BS about the Elmo period and monkeys throwing "feccees" If your going to vandalize, at least spell things right. an ip address 18:08, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Mixed Martial Arts and kickboxing?
I thought the Pride Fighting Championship and K-1 were huge over in Japan. Don't they deserve mention too?

Martial arts = Sports?
The inclusion of traditional (and traditional-style) martial arts as "sports" seems misleading to me. --GenkiNeko 02:27, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

how about pro wrestling? its huge in japan
 * Yes I agree. "Shooto" has its origin in Japan for example. The name is from "shoot", to shoot for the legs, take-down grapple style. That section should be expanded. 2A02:8388:1641:8380:F57D:59AE:A2AE:B491 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 05:53, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

Sumo Wikiproject
I have made a proposal for a Sumo Wikiproject here at WikiProject Sumo Proposal. Yesterday I spent part of the day sourcing Akebono with a few other people after its repeated blanking due to lack of sources. Most sumo articles are not well sourced. Though under two WikiProjects already, I think it would be to the advantage of both the articles of sumo and wikipedia as a whole if Sumo is placed under its own WikiProject. If you would like to join or have any comments, please go to the Project proposal page. Thanks! XinJeisan 17:21, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Volleyball?
Volleyball is a very popular sport, even if not a major professional sport, its played alot in Japanese high schools and there are tournaments around the country. (know from my own experience when i went on exchange there) Could volleyball please me added to the list of sports? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.111.148.219 (talk) 06:41, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Table Tennis?
I know that table tennis is very popular in Japan as well. Is there anywhere this could be mentioned? KTSFanclub (talk) 22:38, 10 June 2011 (UTC)KTSFanclub

Portal:Baseball in Japan nominated for deletion
A portal related to this topic, Portal:Baseball in Japan, has been nominated for deletion. Please see the discussion, at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Baseball in Japan. Thank you for your time. Cheers, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 04:17, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

go
It is frequently said (see google) that go is the national game of Japan. Is this mistaken, or informal, or in Japanese is there both a national "sport" (sumo) and also distinctly a national "game", or perhaps does the accolade simply lack the exclusitivity implied in English? Cesiumfrog (talk) 10:56, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

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