Why does Japan love baseball so much, and which country is it influenced by?

During the Meiji period (1970s), Japan hired many foreign teachers and established modern universities, middle schools, primary schools and vocational schools. American teacher Wilson brought baseball to the first high school in the largest university area (later known as Tokyo Open School, later changed to the first college of higher education, with preparatory college and some professional higher education, and now it has been absorbed and merged by the University of Tokyo. From1870s to1880s, baseball was mainly a snow sport for young elites. (British public schools and American Ivy League also have a great background. They merged with the culture of German school sports clubs and used sports to unite people's hearts. They gradually merged with the practices of German sports clubs and took root in Japan. ) 1896 in may, all the clubs of the former Basel bank university won the yokohama foreigners' club competition respectively, and Caucasians won the yokohama foreigners' club competition. Unwilling to find the US Far East Fleet, the US Navy Far East Fleet chose a group of people to call, and the result was 9 to 32. The news that the Japanese beat the westerners in the baseball game soon spread. At that time, there were several unequal treaties and concessions in Japan, which was a very gratifying news. Baseball became popular in Japan overnight. In addition, elite students who studied baseball from the beginning have now become the backbone of all walks of life in Japan. The popularity of baseball is out of control. During the period of 19 10, in order to unify the wishes of Chinese people, the Ministry of Culture held various sports conferences including baseball. With the development of the middle class, people's desire for mass entertainment is getting stronger and stronger, and the custom of college students and high school students watching baseball games has begun to take shape. In the 1930s, the owner of Yomiuri Shimbun, Taro Matsuura, combined the foundation of baseball games with media propaganda and newspaper propaganda to develop a comprehensive marketing method. He not only successfully played the first professional sports game (Japanese professional baseball game), but also created the biggest sports brand in Japan to read and sell giant baseball furniture music. Department. Although baseball was persecuted by the army in the 1940s, especially campus baseball, which was completely abolished after 1943, baseball was liberated only a few years after Japan's defeat. In 1950s and 1960s, the owner of Yomiuri Shimbun, Taro Matsuura, founded Japan's first private radio and television network and a series of radio stations. He used his TV network and radio station to make the application of integrated marketing attractive. Other daily news media groups and Asahi Shimbun Group also use their media resources to promote student baseball, which is two sponsors of student baseball. Coupled with the promotion of public broadcaster NHK (NHK has more broadcasters than Daily News Media Group and Asahi Shimbun Group). Suddenly, Japanese baseball was in full swing. The fire lasted for many years. By the way, Japanese society has a poor strategy for gambling: in 2009, eight players from a third-line team in Osaka participated in illegal gambling. The news reached the team, and the team immediately investigated and directly expelled eight players. Later, the police intervened in the investigation and found that the amount was not large. However, sponsors withdrew in order to protect their image, and 20 1 1 teams that failed to find new sponsors were forced to dissolve.