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The popularity of baseball reflectsけs consistency wけti the national character is It ics of thざJap専nese people. While tりe Japanese like heroes, they <lo.n' t s誠their applause for "tragic heroes." The Japanese people feel sympathy for a defeated as well as a winning team. A幼out of erv couragement such as "Come back nざxtyearagain!" is cast to the losing high school team in the championship asはs players pU:k upさhandful of sand and stand in silence or tears In the KosWen Stadium. Mass media also plays up the '•beauty of defeat" to readers and listeners. 弁
Baseball in Japan, though an )mpofled spQit, has been assImHated into the national culture, Japanvalues have suffused the sport — in the dねc!pline practiced, In the spiritual conteりt qoriveyed by the phraseIkkyu'nyukon (one bd,l with all my heart)' In the analogy drawn between the art of kendo (trac^tional swordsmanship) and the duel between the pはcher and batter. In 飾'way, Japanese baseball, In which players cry out In victory or defeat has become the truly national sport.
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The voyage took Concer around the Cape of Good Hope, through the Indian Ocean and to the Paci"c. The ship rescued 22 Japanese fishermen shipwrecked off the Islane Is of Tori amdはu, ancrheaded for the port 年do.
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The historical incident occurred eight yearns after the American ship Mo/r/so" was chased away by the Japanese Govemm印t by cannons and eight years • before Admiral Perry demanded the opening opof the country.
0ver100yeardほter;Japan and the United States are friendly countries, with over 1,500,咖peoplecrossi[)g the oceさn什om boUidlrectぉnsね visit the respective countries every year.
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TOKYO — Americans used ta tWnk of Japan as a tiger, strohg, qulck, dese〜ing of caution, but now they look smd see si peacock, "vain smd gaudy."
For the Japanese, thp Americans have been alion*, "big and strong,,' king of the beasts, ever since they, started measuring this sort of thing11year多ago, as a matter of fact:
The Sankel Shimbun newspaper and けsゅadc"stingaf-f川ates Fuji Telecasting Co" have been carrying on an annual poにsi nee1970.
To ward the end of1981, Sankei had the Gall up organization ask1,500 persons over age13at3po locations in the United States to多tand st川 long enoi^gh to be gほen a list of10 a咖als, blrds, insects, or rodents and pick the one りse to describe Japan,
pretted as "vaめand gaudy." Another 23 percent picked the tlg$r.
During the1970' s the tiger always finished fけst, generally at about the 30 percent level.
But 54 percent of the Japanese chose the勘n as repre. sentlngthellnはed States, followed by the tiger at 32 perf:—, the el邻hまat 25 percent, the fox at22》ercent, Theratgotonly3peんent and the ant 2 percent.
"The top three <jhoiQes Ob* viously mearV that the Japanese ,mpre争sion Qf the llnはed States Is (as) «blg and strong/' columnist K,yoaki Murata Wrote In theM|9ipaiie$e Timds.
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