Let's appreciate how cool it is that a 10 hour+ road-race attracts nearly half of Japan to tune in some years.
It's cool the World Series is attracting 16 million TV viewers in Japan, but that's 1/4th the audience of the Hakone Ekiden
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Most Japanese people are at work and aren’t able to watch it Rojo. Their work culture is brutal.
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That's cos running is like 1000 times more popular globally.
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Ekiden is exclusively Japanese runners.
If the Ekiden were always won by East Africans, its popularity would plummet.
You know, like the precipitous drop in the popularity of American and European distance running from the 1980s until now.
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Kobbs Hessler wrote:
Ekiden is exclusively Japanese runners.
If the Ekiden were always won by East Africans, its popularity would plummet.
You know, like the precipitous drop in the popularity of American and European distance running from the 1980s until now.
Really? When did these runners become Japanese?
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Usecommonsense wrote:
Most Japanese people are at work and aren’t able to watch it Rojo. Their work culture is brutal.
lol, you expect rojo to relate to that?
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MLB is totally doped. ARod is on the Fox broadcast. MLB loves dopers.
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Lol. By all means, search the men’s and women’s winners of the Ekiden for the last 25 years and the men’s and women’s winners of the New York, Boston, Chicago, Berlin, London, and Rotterdam marathons.
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coterct wrote:
That's cos running is like 1000 times more popular globally.
And runners makes millions of dollars.
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Usecommonsense wrote:
Most Japanese people are at work and aren’t able to watch it Rojo. Their work culture is brutal.
Wrong. They waste 50% of their time to make it look they are actually doing something.
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Doesn't Japan have their own baseball league? Why would they care about maybe one or two Japanese players in the American baseball?
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Minato Hakodate has more Korean and Chinese spies than Japanese residents. You can tell by their accents they speak incorrect Japanese, don't distinguish the local dialect, and have fake Japanese names.
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Usecommonsense wrote:
Most Japanese people are at work and aren’t able to watch it Rojo. Their work culture is brutal.
Its during the holidays. Whereas Americans watch a college football bowl game, the Japanese watch this ekiden, thats all.
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rojo wrote:
Let's appreciate how cool it is that a 10 hour+ road-race attracts nearly half of Japan to tune in some years.
Rojo you idiot you are comparing average viewership (world series) to cumulative (ekiden). Aren't you supposed to be a journalist that looks into things at least a little bit? The alarm bells should have gone off when you discovered that more people were watching some running race than the world series.
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Usecommonsense wrote:
Most Japanese people are at work and aren’t able to watch it Rojo. Their work culture is brutal.
The WS games start at 9:00am, so it has nothing to do with work culture.
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