How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War
by
Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Baseball has joined America and Japan, even in times of strife, for over 150 years. After the "opening" of Japan by Commodore Perry, Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu explains, baseball was introduced there by American employees of the Japanese government tasked with bringing Western knowledge and...