Second in a two-part series
The martial arts were the inspiration for the famous baseball team at the First Higher School of Tokyo, a late 19th century powerhouse that helped make yakyu, as baseball came to be known, the national sport of Japan.
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Notorious but victorious: Hirofumi Daimatsu, who coached Japan's women's team to the gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, was noted for his excessive training techniques. | KYODO
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