owever, from the experiences of many, they discovered that competition on the Japanese fields was tougher than its reputation abroad. The baseball played in America is not the baseball played in Japan. The Japanese play Japanese baseball. The rules are the same, as are the distances between the bases and the number of balls and strikes, but the games are different. It is big business in Japan, and since World War II it has clearly become the country's national game.
             The thousands of American troops stationed in Japan after World War II started a passion for baseball, which was previously not present. The soldiers showed the Japanese the American ways of baseball, and the popularity of it has continued to explode ever since. Many other countries throughout the world have tried to estab
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