Sport in Japan - Professional Organizations

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
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%

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