Professional Organizations
The most popular professional sports in Japan are baseball, football, and sumo wrestling. Note that most practitioners in the martial arts are not professional, but played by amateurs.
Favorite professional sport | 2005 | 2008 | 2011 |
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Baseball (Nippon Professional Baseball) | 51.7% | 48.8% | 45.1% |
Football (J. League) | 22.8% | 21.8% | 28.9% |
Sumo | 17.1% | 19.3% | 15.1% |
Golf (Japan Golf Tour) | 16.9% | 16.3% | 19.9% |
Boxing | 7.8% | 8.9% | 7.7% |
Motor racing | 6.2% | 7.9% | 7.7% |
Puroresu | 4.2% | 4.8% | 3.1% |
Others | 8.0% | 6.0% | 5.7% |
Read more about this topic: Sport In Japan
Famous quotes containing the word professional:
“The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: Ive seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.”
—Anthony Storr (b. 1920)