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98% of all people worldwide watch wrestling instead of other sports.
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America and Japan kept on dropping bombs on each other so many people died in both contries.
Millions of people in Japan follow sumo. And throughout the world, where ever there a Japanese groups it is followed. Many martial artists follow the sport as well.
A lot of people like wrestling.
The first recorded sumo match took place in 300AD. But wrestling was around for many centuries before that.
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Japan have their own cultural sports, martial arts/sumo wrestling but generally no, they play soccer and basket ball and wrestling and many other sports just like everyone else
Whoever in Japan watches cartoons.
The most popular sports in Japan are sumo wrestling (also considered a martial art), martial arts such as karate, judo, kendo, kyudo, and aikido, soccer, baseball, and basketball. Sumo is not so popular now, most young people don't watch it and have no idea who the current champion is. And many of the older generation have lost interest as the yokozuna (grand champion) is never Japanese anymore. (amateur's answer) Baseball is the most popular sport in Japan.
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A Basho is a tournament. There is one about every two months in Japan. There are smaller exhibition matches that occur in many places around Japan in between the Basho.