MISCELLANEOUS RECOLLECTIONS
Umpiring a baseball game in Japan is different. Instead of
calling "balls" and "strikes" in that order as we do in
America, the Japanese reverse it with "strikes" and
"balls." At my first game, it took me a couple of innings to figure
this out.
The JAPAN
TIMES is the daily newspaper I enjoy the most. Although many fewer pages than
its American counter-parts, it covers all the news and
is easier to read. It is, of course, printed in English.
Behavior at a Japanese theater is also different. During a
performance, patrons feel free to get up, walk around and carry on
conversations.