How Japan Took Over American Baseball

Not sumo or judo, nor tennis, but baseball is the most popular sport in . With Shohei Ohtani being the face of baseball for the country, baseball has hit a home run in the hearts of its people.
This is because when it comes to baseball game attendance, only the United States comes ahead of Japan. Take for example, in 2024, over 26 million people attended the Japanese professional baseball league. When compared to the ratio of people attending MLB games to the United States population, it is just as much!
But it wasn’t always like this.
So how did Japan take over baseball?

With superstar Shohei Ohtani leading the charge, baseball’s popularity in Japan is sure to keep soaring. But who will be the next torchbearer of baseball in Japan? Can the NPB surpass MLB in the coming decade?

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