Baseball is the most popular sport in Japan, introduced in 1872, by Horace Wilson, a teacher at the Kaisei School in Tokyo. The first team was called the Shimbashi Athletic Club and was established in 1878. Baseball is called 野球 (やきゅう; yakyū) in Japanese, combining the characters for fielding & ball
The Poem of Wind and Trees (Kaze to Ki no Uta) is a shōjo manga with gay themes by K. Takemiya. First published by Shougakukan from 1976 to 84 in the magazine Shōjo Comic. It took 9 years for Takemiya's publishers to agree to publish it, as Takemiya refused to censor the sexual elements of the story
