Differences between American baseball and Japanese baseball

The differences between this game in those countries is supported mainly in their cultures.
While American has a "dry" business mentality-the ability of the individual is everything, Japan`s "wet" group mentality. By seeing the player as samurai warriors "who servethe group in return for wich their status is guaranteed for life" In this light, the umpires are weak members of the warriors clan, who can not adopt a resolute attitude towards the clan`s player(shuji). This is an example of the cultural phenomenon that Japanese strive for "wa", a form of group harmony.
In Japan there`s a general idea that a referee or judge`s decisionis not absolute. The outcome of discussions by several people, according to Japanese custom, should be given more respect than the judgement of an individual.

There are differences in the game. For instances, schoolgirls are ushers and whistles are blown to warn spectators of foul balls. No one fights for these foul balls because the person who recover the ball readily hands it to the usher who returns it to the home team. There is also no blawling onthe field like in American baseball. The players have no agents and there are no wild cards teams(Verducci).

In Japan, the strike zone is bigger, pitchers throw more breaking pitches, and batters have a much shorter swing.
Players are neither as large as swift as Americans, in general,the ball park is smaller,and some infields in Japan are all dirt. The strike zone is irregular, strategy so enforced that the best hitters find themselves sacrificing runs and causing delays of the game(Fimrite). The Japanese use a slightly ball and their games end in a tie(koppel).

Personally, we consider that for American and Japanese play together, they would have to make a big effort to bridge this cultural gap.

This material was taken from the internet. We will continue writing about this interesting topic.

By Socrates.