Showan vs. Heiseian
2010年06月30日
Last night Japanese national football team fought a strong fight in FIFA World Cup, and so many Japanese people clung in front of TV and watched it breathtakingly.
In Japan popularity of professional association football (soccer) has balooned since a relatively recent time before.
Since around 1990s, its populality has risen, firstly with the fad of “J League”, Japan’s first full-fledged professional football league, and so-called “tragedy of Doha”, which was the final match of World Cup’s Asian bloc preliminary Japan surrendered the ticket in last minutes of game to Iraq.
The period football has entered the realm of Japanese’ national pastime coincides, accidentally, with Japan’s entering Heisei era.
So young “Heiseian” only know the periond football has popularity in people, while older “Showan”, who were born in the middle of Showa era (1926-1989) have memories in that other sports than football had much more popularity, say, baseball or sumo wrestling.
Younger Heiseian might more easily have a compassion with foreign people as for football, which is one of the sports with the most grobal popularity. Especially, in most countries around Japan football is the most favorite, in mainland China, Korea, Thailand, and so on…
I’m a Showan.
And I have a momory of my craze with baseball match, that had spread more intensely back in the period of Showa era, as nowadays craze with World Cup match. It is my memory. And time flies.
(Oda Mitsuo, president of Asia no tofu)
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