日本

Review of NYTimes articles shows a few mentions around the 4th of July of several games in New York and Chicago. The Waseda Baseball Team website's history page says this was their second tour of the US, and ended 17 victories, 36 losses, one cancellation (forfeit?). The trip lasted from March 28th until August 17th. Brief article on Japan baseball history, describing book "Through a Diamond". Baseball was controversial in Japan at the time. In August when the Waseda team returned, an historic editorial was printed by Nitobe Inazo, comparing baseball's deceipt to picking pockets. (He preferred the manliness and honesty of rugby)

This photo is discussed in The Commons research thread. When I was digging around, I found that there were only a few (college) teams in Japan, so they often hosted international teams and traveled to play. I'd like to understand exactly how this counted as school credit... were they really learning English? Touring businesses and factories?

roketpad: Thanks for posting the results of your research--fascinating!

Hi, as this photo was featured in rocketpad's research projects in theFlickr Commons group, we'd love to have this added to the group pool!

This image has been used in the indicommons.org post: Research: Japanese Ballers Parade, NY, 1911

Daibutsu means Great Budda in Japanese. And it is in Kamakura, not near.

An old photo of an even older statue.....kind of surreal.

Maravillosa foto.

I have been in Kamakura in front of this incredible Daibutsu and it's an iconical and spiritual place for Japan. I couldn't imagine a group of japanese people climbing a church or another catholic or protestant symbol/monument/temple for a photo at those years in Europe or U.S.A. In 1860-1900 they'd been put under arrest (or directly murdered in some mediterranean countries).