High school baseball unifies Japan - GazetteNET

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Baseball, long popular in Japan, rallied the country after World War II, providing a welcome distraction while serving as a symbol of the cooperation, hard work, and self-sacrifice needed to rebuild the devastated land. It could be expected to play a similar role in the latest disaster, but an ugly squabble over whether to postpone opening day has smeared the image of the professional game. Now the nation is turning elsewhere for some hope: adolescents who play baseball with a seriousness and

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High school baseball unifies Japan - GazetteNET

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Baseball, long popular in Japan, rallied the country after World War II, providing a welcome distraction while serving as a symbol of the cooperation, hard work, and self-sacrifice needed to rebuild the devastated land. It could be expected to play a similar role in the latest disaster, but an ugly squabble over whether to postpone opening day has smeared the image of the professional game. Now the nation is turning elsewhere for some hope: adolescents who play baseball with a seriousness and

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