Sumo vs. Baseball

In Japan there are two big fascination; Sumo & Basaball. These are the two most famous sports around here. The interesting part of comparing them are the big contrast in their origins and their traditions.

In one hand, we have quite simply drawn, sumo pits two colossal men in a circular ring, the objective being to topple your opponent or expel him from the ring. What is the fascination with sumo? Understandably enough it's not the most approachable of sports; for one it is only practised professionally in Japan.Yet it is a tradition spanning back some 1,500 years; it's miraculous enough that such a niche sport is still practised with the same customary practices in the modern day. Everything from their hairstyle to their battle dressings, their communal training and feeding methods, these are men bred to the traditions of the past centuries in a highly industrialized country fit with all the conveniences of modern society. The simple fact of its survival and vibrance is cause for interest in itself.

It's true it takes some time for a bout to establish itself, and each bout can hardly last a few seconds to a minute, yet it's not the length of the contest that measures superiority, it's the craft.

Some people just find enjoyment in seeing abnormally large men colliding. If you're able to watch you can see the absolute joy of some spectators as their wrestlers labour their way to and from the ring.

Now in the other hand, Baseball is the most popular team sport in Japan, with high school, university, and professional games stirring the public and dominating the media during the spring and summer months.
Baseball was first played in Japan in 1873 at Kaisei Gakko, under the instruction of an American teacher, Horace Wilson. Around 1880 the first Japanese baseball team was organized at the Shimbashi Athletic Club, and several college teams were formed in Tokyo. During the period 1890 to 1902, a team from the First Higher School in Tokyo played and often defeated a team made up of American residents in Yokohama; the publicity for these games helped make baseball one of the most popular Western sports in Japan.

Watching a Japanese Baseball game is a completely unique expirience. Is fascinated how this passion in the japanese's heart had growth about this american sport. People cheering with their lifes, and it is even more interesting to noted how can a young sport, comparing with the sumo age, can had reach such a huge supporters in soo few time; and the most traditional sport in the country had lost soo many spectors long the years.

...Japanese Feminity desire...

The World can have passe for so many devolepment and revolution but, men still are in the command. The machism in the world is still prevalent; finding a woman in the comand, is almost impossible; the womens who are who has the power is countable in one hand, for example; how many women have you seem in the highest role in a company? in commanding a nation? or in the top job?
In the modern society, the men still are the leaders, even after a long journy of feminism revolution, fighting for their rights and their places in the society, they still are not equal with men.
Japan is still considerated a masculine society. I would compare it with the muslin society in same facts as, for example inside the families; In japan men is always the of the family, will not find as in america, in same case, that the woman is the front of the family, or also for example, the men are always the first to be served in the table, they always say the last word, or if are a woman and are travelling alone, many places, they don't accept you to stay there if are alone because it would be really not well seeing, those facts are similar with muslim traditions; but if you hear their reason (japanese and muslim) for it, its easy to understand their point, they kind of "want to protect their women", whose is more fragile than them, Many people would see it as an arrogant or ambition thought.
Although, it is really contractiory how the new generation are acting about this fact. The new generation may have change a little bit about the concept of masculinity. For the youngh male generation Feminity is more desirable trait among males in Japn than in most western countries. They are, kind of, looking for being more "feminine" as possible, its mean, for what they others society would be conciderated a female behavior, they don't see it like that, for example, vanity, kindness or sensuality. Also what in other western countries are still not well seeing here is already normal as metrosexuality

Why Japaneses belive in many different religions.. -.-

Japanese Horror Films is a great way to shows the japanese beliefs. They are the same and different at the same time. For starters both of them are related to their religion but the way both worlds portray horror is different because of again, religion. The Japanese’ interest in horror is probably linked to the two great religions in Japan which are Buddhism and Shintoism. Buddhism came to Japan around 500 AD by Korean scholars from China. Shintoism on the other hand is an original to the country. Because both religions are interrelated and have some similar beliefs, a lot of Japanese practice both. The main theme of Buddhism is the idea of rebirth and incarnation. As human beings, it is said that there is a never ending cycle of death and rebirth. Shintoism on the other hand, although it doesn’t focus much on life after death, it focuses on spirits and it is taught that any dead person can be prayed to which suggests that each person has a reikon or a soul that can be stuck among living things when that person doesn't die peacefully (e.g. filled with anger, resent or excess emotion). In other words, in Shintoism it is believed that spirits live with human beings. It was also said that in the creation myth of Shinto, there is such a thing called land of the dead or Yomi but with the adaptation of Buddhist teachings, it was combined with the idea of Buddhist’ multiple hells. What is the connection to Japanese horror then? The prevalence of spirits in Japanese horror shows its relation with the beliefs and culture of the Japanese. J-Horror is not there to explain such a complex religion. It is mostly to explain to people that the way the universe works is beyond human understanding.
Western films are linked with the idea of Monotheism. Most Westerners are Christians and so they all have a common understanding that the mortal enemy is the devil which have been often portrayed as a non human looking creature or a human creature but possesse.
Although the western films and the japanese films are really distinct in that point, Japanese beliefs still has lots of influences of Christianism.
To conclude, we can realize that japanese aren't really religious in comparation with other eastern nations; "their" main realigion is a mix of many different religions existent in this world, because of that fact is there the famous dictation " Born in the Shintoism, Married in the Christianism and die in the Buddhism ".