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    "Kore wa football desu!" Aussie Rules in Japan

    Pretty funny. A humble foreign correspondent's efforts to bring the great game to AFL-starved Japanese.

    "Kore wa football desu!" ("This is a football!") Thirty faces nodded earnestly, absorbing this information with as much concentration as if I had just shown them a working model of a combustion engine.

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    Love it!! It's fairly typical of 'collective' cultures like Japan that it can be very hard to break into the culture as an outsider, just shows the value of team-based activities such as sport in forging bonds despite the language/culture barrier!

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    Great post. I really enjoyed the article. Showed it to a number of people and received favourable comments from some of the recipients.
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