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minus-squareaeronmelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up40·1 month agoI dunno what the motivation behind this comic was, but I now want an entire series of Bostonian-Japanese Baseball Girl.
minus-squareKrauerking@lemy.lollinkfedilinkarrow-up30·1 month agoBaseball. Seriously Japan loves baseball and the mascots that come with it.
minus-square𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·1 month agoYeah, they even have native word for it, I mean not even a kanji written loanword like sacca or baskettoboru
minus-squaretigeruppercut@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoNow 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.
I dunno what the motivation behind this comic was, but I now want an entire series of Bostonian-Japanese Baseball Girl.
Baseball.
Seriously Japan loves baseball and the mascots that come with it.
Yeah, they even have native word for it, I mean not even a kanji written loanword like sacca or baskettoboru
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.
No shit? What’s the word?
It’s やきゅう, yakyū
Cool, TIL, thanks!