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Japanese volleyball team



I will tell you about volley ball in Japan. Especially volley ball for mothers. Volley ball is one of the popular sports in Japan. There are two reason of it. The first reason is that volley ball in Japan is strong. According to wikipedia, Women’s volley ball team in Japan got 5 medals in Olympic games. In 1962, Women’s team was called “withes in the East” because Japanese team was very strong. In that year Japanese team got gold medal in Olympic Games. In that year Japan and soviet were rival and their game was attracted the world. Even now the topic about volley ball in this year is sometimes talked in TV program in Japan.
The second reason is that Japanese like team sports. When we think about popular sports in Japan like baseball or soccer, many of them are team sports. Why Japanese like team sports? That is because Japanese has strong sense of group work. We like to cooperate in a group. Therefore, Japanese baseball and American Base ball is a little bit different. American baseball tends to emphasize the achievement of individual. On the other hand, baseball in Japan cares about achievement of team more.
For those reasons volley ball in Japan is popular.






Volleyball is popular among female. In Japan there is “mamasan volley ball”. It means that mother’s play volleyball as hobby. Those mothers are influenced by popularity of volleyball. Some of them are fascinated with volleyball so start volleyball. Some of them are women who did volley ball when they were student or some of them are beginner. Usually player is 6 in volleyball but 9 people play in “mamasan“ volleyball. They play in community center in their town or they participate the volley ball team of PTA(this is community of parents in school) of their children. Even if you are not mother if you are at least 35 years old or you got married more than once, you can join this community. There are a lot of tournament for those “mamasan volley ball” team. LAWSON cup is one of the tournaments of “mamasan volleyball” and it was held on March. This tournament was held by National housewives volleyball League. According to the blog of mother who participate “mamas an volleyball, the practice of volleyball is very hard so it is a little busy to do both housework and volleyball. When the tournament is near, they practice everyday. However, even if the practice is hard, those wives really like volleyball so they can make an effort.
Like this Japanese likes volleyball.