After more than a century, the story of the arrival of baseball in Japan is about to be revised.
Nobuhisa Ito, 60, an NPB historian, has been researching a new theory about the exact year when baseball was introduced to Japan.
The long-accepted idea was that teacher Horace Wilson from the United States taught baseball to his students at a school that was a forerunner to the University of Tokyo in 1872.
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