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Kyoto International High School of Korean Ethnicity won the Koshien title this year, drawing keen attention from Korean baseball fans beyond the Korean Strait. Although Koshien is called "romantic" among Korean and Japanese baseball fans every year, Kyoto International High School's victory is more than expected. Why. 토토사이트 모음

Kyoto International High School won 2-1 over Kanto Daiichi High School after an extended match in the final of the 106th National High School Baseball Championship (Summer Koshien) held at Hanshin Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan on the 23rd.

It was a dramatic victory. Kyoto International High School starting pitcher Rui Nakazaki pitched 104 pitches during nine innings, allowing four hits, three strikeouts and no run. The team started an extra game where runners on the first and second bases are filled at 0-0, and Kyoto International High School led 2-0 with a pushy walk and a sacrifice fly in the top of the 10th inning. At the bottom of the 10th inning, the team faced a crisis with no outs and a bases loaded due to errors in defense. However, he gave up a point by ground ball to the shortstop and struck out the last batter by swinging, and thus secured the first Koshien title in 77 years since its establishment in 1947.

It was impressive in and of itself. Kyoto International High School, which opened as Kyoto Chosun Middle School in 1947, has been operated by the Kyoto Korean Studies Institute under the Korean People's Association in Japan. The institute established the baseball team in 1999 and became the first Korean-Japanese school to participate in the national baseball championship, drawing keen attention from the public.

In the previous year, he was invited to Koshien in the spring of 2021, marking his first participation in a national championship. That summer, he advanced to the Koshien on his own and advanced to the semifinals, drawing keen attention from Japan as well. It was quite shocking to see that he even won the title in just three years after participating in a national championship.

In terms of players' composition, the team was not much different from ordinary Japanese high school teams. Currently, there are 138 Kyoto International High School students. Seventy percent of enrolled high school students are Japanese, 30 percent are Korean, and 61 are from the baseball team out of 138. All of the players who led the championship are Japanese.

It was the reason why it steadily attracted the attention of Korean baseball fans that it did not forget to maintain its identity as a Korean national school in Japan. Kyoto International High School was approved by the Japanese government in 2003 and is recognized as a regular high school in both Korea and Japan. All curriculums are conducted only in Japanese using textbooks approved by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

However, unlike other international schools and schools in Japan, they always go to Korea for school trips. "Kyoto International High School aims to learn a rich sense of international culture as a Korean-based international school. We are focusing on enhancing our understanding of Korean culture by making it mandatory to take the Korean language proficiency test during school trips," the Sankei Shimbun reported.

The propaganda of Kyoto International High School drew the biggest attention from the school song in Korean, which they call before the start of the game. The school song, which begins with the phrase "The land of Yamato across the East Sea is the holy place of our ancestors' old dreams," also has the phrase "Stand up strong, descendants of Daehan."

As a result, some Japanese people looked down on Kyoto International High School's propaganda every year. The victory was also controversial. NHK, a Japanese public broadcaster, translated the East Sea, its own language, into East の in the scene where Kyoto International High School sings the school song, and the lyrics of "Korean academy" were also translated into "Korea-Japan" rather than "Korea."

Perhaps conscious of the controversy, NHK added in a separate Japanese caption, "The Japanese translation of Kyoto's international high school was submitted by the school." In the Yahoo Sports article, a Japanese portal that broke the news, more than 1,000 opinions poured out, including, "Since the international title of the East Sea is the Sea of Japan, if the school song is played in the final, translate it confidently into 'Sea of Japan' and "Sports and politics should be separated."