Summer is not summer in Japan without two things: 1. Heat (OK, so maybe it's not the heat, it's the humidity); and 2 . . .
High school baseball.
Which means the national high school baseball tournament at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture — due to start next week — with every single game broadcast nationally, courtesy of NHK.
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