Japanese-American Perspectives

Don't know how many of you are keeping track of me through this blog, but for those that are, my grandmother passed away earlier today (10:40am) at the age of 102.

A little ticked at myself because I had a chance to go see her earlier this month but opted not to go because I had other things I "needed" to do.

Was the game Sunday night to see the US beat Chinese Taipei, 8-7, in extra innings.

It was probably the best WUBC game I've been to so far (out of the four I've been too anyway).

Here are just a couple of the 80 or so images I took.


Gerrit Cole warming in the bullpen before the game.

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I went to the game on Friday night and snapped some images.







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For those interested in international baseball tournaments, Haarlem Baseball Week is currently taking place in the Netherlands. Seems like they actually have a live feed for the games.

If you click in right now, you can catch Japan playing the Netherlands.

The feed is in Dutch and the background audio appears to be from some radio station. Interestingly enough, the feed switches back and forth from music to what appears to be commentary on the game.

Some of you may have caught Kylee Saunders singing the National Anthem before a Portland Trail Blazers 5 years ago when she was 11.



Since then, she has joined the Japanese music industry and is slowly making a new for herself.

One particular song became a fairly big hit after it was used in a commercial for a fairly major online clothing retailer (Nissen) in Japan.

Which brings me to the whole point of ...