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To me, the least accurate part is picking baseball to represent the right. I would've gone with wrestling, NASCAR, or maybe even football.
(I know the Japanese play baseball themselves... maybe it has a right-wing connotation there that's influencing the choice?)
One of the first words Japanese language learning resources teach you is the word for baseball. It's 野球 yakyuu ("field ball") btw
棒球 (bàngqiú) in Chinese. Sort of means "stick/bat ball", but also maybe "awesome ball".
Yeah that was a bit weird.
Japan has one of the more popular gridiron football scenes outside of the US. They also have one of the biggest wrestling & motorsports scenes. That said, I wouldn’t be calling any sport really political on one side or the other but a general working-class pasttime.
Yeah, all of major league baseball celebrated pride month.
Definitely NASCAR.