Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball

Kokoyakyu: Effort

This excerpt from Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball, shows the role of students supporting the baseball team, including through making origami paper cranes, a symbol of good luck. The excerpt also includes the opening of the selection process, in which the players who will be selected to play in the tournament, are revealed. In addition to teaching about baseball, this excerpt also provides a good introduction to the role and meaning of origami paper cranes and the importance placed on people playing supporting roles, not just players, in Japanese high school baseball.

More info: http://aboutjapan.japansociety.org/content.cfm/kokoyakyu_effort_pt1