> an American professor in
Tokyo, some 20 years after Commodore Matthew Perry and his Black Ships opened feudal Japan
to the world. The game became a national obsession in 1896, when a team from the elite First
igher School of Tokyo 一 known as Ichiko 一 beat a group of American businessmen and
ted a historian
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