Japanese runners in the NCAA?

They live in a wealthy and educated country. What would the benefit be for a Japanese to study/run in America?

I guess you would have to ask the students that do matriculate here. Maybe that's the answer, though there are quite a few Japanese students here studying from just personal observation. If the system in Japan is better, wouldn't they dominate our runners?

Actually percentage wise there are fewer northeast Asians (Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese) studying in the U.S. I think Taiwan has more in the U.S.A. though. Taiwan is where my parents were born. But I know most of the top students in China study in Japan. Chaing Kai-Sheck, the founder of Taiwan, studied in Tokyo.

Because they have as good if not a better system over in Japan. The reason Brits go is that unless they are practical a world champs medal contender they get no support from UK athletics. In Japan they have well sponsered university and company teams and so dont need to seek support elsewhere.

nepoks wrote:

They live in a wealthy and educated country. What would the benefit be for a Japanese to study/run in America?

Irish and British runners go over to America though...

If they are good high school runners they are being heavily recruited by Japanese universities and to run for a Japanese university is where the fame and glory lies.

Also most of them do not have the language skills to go to an American university without a couple of years spent studying English before they enter

One reason would probably be getting in touch with the athletes in the first place. The University of Toledo has a Chinese jumps coach and they have always had a couple of Chinese athletes on their team. They currently have two Chinese female jumpers. Their jumps coach, Jiana Jin, was a national champion in China in the 1970s.

seriousquestion wrote:

Why are there not more Japanese runners in the NCAA? We have a laudable college system academically, and it seems that there are many Japanese students studying here. Why do they not compete collegiately in our system?

I have some Japanese colleagues who tell me that U.S. undergraduate degrees aren't considered rigorous enough to be respected in Japan, although grad degrees are another matter.

So if you're not going to come over for educational reasons and the Japanese support system for runners is so much better than the NCAA, why would they want to come over here to run?

Why would someone from Japan come to run and go to school in the U.S. when both our collegiate running system and education system are sub par (at best).

The answer is: they wouldn't and don't.

Our education is sub par to theirs and our collegiate running system is not very good at developing distance runners. Especially for the longer distances, which is where many Japanese interest are.

That is a total joke. The U.S. university system is totally superior to theirs. Japanese university students rarely study and academics are low on their list of priorities. 1st is their club, 2nd their part-time job, third is friends. Japanese universities are holding pens until the students are old enough and mature enough to enter the workplace.

Regarding the superiority of the running system, the goals are different. The US system is preparing them for track racing, the Japanese for the ekiden. They have very different goals so it is hard to compare them.

Percentages wrote:

Chaing Kai-Shek, the founder of Taiwan

Founder of nothing, not even the ROC (too stupid to have done anything meaningful)

Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Republic of China.

Japanese students who do go to the US, go to study. Just like Chinese, Indians etc.

There is not as much (useful) English spoken in Japan, so students have a tough time passing TOEFL etc.

CKS is the founder of Taiwan. SYS founded the ROC which was defeated by Mao. CKS went to college in Japan. He married a Japanese.

CKS moved the ROC to Taiwan.

Taiwan is not a country. My ID card says, "ROC Alien Resident Certificate", not "ROT"

....an outstanding issue that has yet to be resolved...

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/25773/

Anyway, Japanese students who do go to the US to study, not run.

I was born in Mountain View. My parents are from Taiwan. CKS was kicked out of China and was forced to flee to Taiwan. He killed many Taiwanese taking control of Taiwan by force. He was kind to the Japanese because of his college days in Tokyo and his Japanese wife.

CKS wrote:

I was born in Mountain View. My parents are from Taiwan. CKS was kicked out of China and was forced to flee to Taiwan. He killed many Taiwanese taking control of Taiwan by force. He was kind to the Japanese because of his college days in Tokyo and his Japanese wife.

You mean Soong Mei-ling? Raised in the US, graduate of Wellesley.....that wife?

The KMT were atrocious then. Taiwan was basically what Burma is now - a thug-ocracy.

SML was his 3rd wife.

1. Mao Fumei

2. ?

Its the Taiwanese who love(d) Japan, not the KMT. There were +10k Taiwanese soldiers who served in the Japanese army, Taiwanese kamikazees (some flying for China Airlines now), etc. These old geezers to this day refuse to speak mandarin - Taiwanese or Japanese only. Lee Deng-hui is a more moderate example.

Its the *Taiwanese* who love Japan, not CKS and his cronies. They fought them for +10yrs on the mainland.

The Man Inside The Jacket wrote:

Irish and British runners go over to America though...

Micks and Limeys go where ever there's beer, bro!!!

The Man Inside The Jacket wrote:

nepoks wrote:

They live in a wealthy and educated country. What would the benefit be for a Japanese to study/run in America?

Irish and British runners go over to America though...

The only reason UK (or any)distance runners have ever come to the US is $. There are(or were) no scholarships in the UK. Academics are generally better there, as is the general distance running scene, even today. The US coach-centered collegiate system is a big turnoff to most Brits. I know several v good runners who came, turned around and left in a few weeks.

The Japanese are well sponsored, so why come?