Japanese Baseball has existed in Japan since 1873. It first appeared amid the social, cultural and technological spasms Japan endured on the heels of the Meiji restoration. (Pacific U.) In Japan baseball is known as Yakyu. (Baywell) The game of baseball was introduced from the United States during the early Meiji period. Horace Wilson is the man who receives credit for starting baseball in Japan. (Allen) Wilson was an American professor of English at a Tokyo university. Through the early 1920’s the only baseball the Japanese saw was high school baseball. It wasn’t until the 1930’s that baseball really caught on in Japan as a professional sport. (Embassy of Japan)

In the 1930’s American all-star teams would come over to Japan to play a host of good will games. These games started in October of 1931. The U.S. all-star team

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