KOSHIEN Japan's Field of Dreams TRAILER 

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Daiya no Ace brought me here. If I ever go to Japan someday, I want to watch Koshien.

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When I tell my American friends what high school baseball in Japan is like, I always tell that it is like the baseball version of the American movie 'Friday Night Lights' .

A good documentary. You can see why japan beat USA in the WBC.

Japanese “YAKYU-baseball” has a unique spirit that took root and developed over more than 100 years after it was imported to Japan from the American style of baseball. In fact, there is another type of baseball on the earth today that exists in a different spirit from the American style. Of course, the roots of baseball are in the U.S. (or the U.K.), but baseball was exported from the U.S. to other countries, and the baseball that took root there developed in a different way. This would be a fact that has happened on the planet. The 2023 WBC was the day that “Japanese-style baseball (YAKYU)” defeated the home of “American-style baseball.” To put it another way, it was a battle between Japanese-style baseball “ZEN-IN-baseball (all members),” which emphasizes “teamwork of all players,” and American-style baseball, which emphasizes “individual power.” The result was the day that Japanese-style “ZEN-IN-baseball (YAKYU) (organized baseball emphasizing teamwork)” won over American-style baseball. This difference is due to the difference in background culture, history, and environment. However, the real and obvious cause of the difference is largely due to the difference in the two countries' educational methods in “high school baseball education.” Japan's professional baseball system consists of 12 teams in two leagues, and almost all of the players who join these teams as professional players come from Japanese high school baseball clubs, and have played in the “Koshien Tournament,” a national high school baseball tournament that has been held annually since 1915 (more than 100 years). Japan is divided into 47 prefectures, each of which has one (or more than one in large autonomous regions) winning team from each regional tournament. 56 teams (2018) will gather at the Koshien Tournament to compete for the championship of the best high school in Japan in a sudden-death tournament format over a two-week period. Almost all Japanese high school baseball players spend three years practicing baseball in order to participate in and win this annual Koshien Tournament. Although the Koshien Tournament is a tournament for high school students, it has a history of more than 100 years, and because it is participated by the regional representatives of the 47 local autonomous regions of Japan, the level of interest and enthusiasm is unusually high throughout Japan. The interest in the Koshien Tournament is much higher than that of professional baseball.　 Of course, every Japanese player who has made it to the major leagues, without exception, has either participated or aspired to participate in the Koshien Tournament when they were in high school. That is how influential the Koshien Tournament is in Japanese high school baseball. During the three years of high school baseball education, they are taught the basics of baseball skills, physical fitness, winning strategies, teamwork, manners, and character development. The stoicism toward the improvement of baseball skills, the obsession with winning, and the behavior seen in Japanese players such as Shohei Ohtani and Ichiro were also greatly influenced by their three years of high school club activities during which they competed hard to win the Koshien Tournament. The secret of why Ohtani often says that he prioritizes his team's winning and World Series championships over his own individual results, and why he is still committed to self-discipline and technical improvement, is largely due to the baseball education they received during their high school years, when they were aiming to win the Koshien Tournament. The Koshien Tournament has a large number of participating teams and is a sudden death tournament. Therefore, no matter how well-rounded and strong the team is, if they fail to score a single run in a single game, they are eliminated from the tournament and their three years of hard work comes to naught. Do you have any idea how difficult and frightening this is for these players who have worked so hard every day to play baseball? So they are willing to sacrifice themselves and cooperate with their team members in order to score one point more than the other team. They naturally learn to put the team first and act in a cooperative manner, where everyone tries to score one more point in order to win the game. The uniqueness of Japanese-style organized baseball ”YAKYU” is partly due to the uniqueness of Japanese culture, but it is more influenced by the experience of going through the Koshien tournament, which almost all high school baseball players go through.

Anyone know where can I watch the full documentary?

japan made a religious out of baseball

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