Japanese Sports Event-Bama Truly Is World Wide Now. Check out the video.

rhm54

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The original poster of the video updated the description to explain.

Ok, this is the full version that I was able to find. The video starts with Narashino's school song. Hey Alabama, how about inviting your sister city's HS band to play at a game?

Since this video has been linked by Alabama's page, I'll elaborate the setting for this. I attended Natsu Koushien, which is the National HS baseball tournament held every August. This year Narashino (one of my favorite schools) qualified out of Chiba Prefecture for the tournament. Their oen-dan (cheering section) is well known, particularly because of their band who has won numerous national awards. Anyways, I figure since Tuscaloosa is Narashino's sister city, the band picked up "Yea, Alabama" as part of its music to use during games.
 

MattinBama

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Saw the video before but didn't realize about the sister city thing that Krazy mentioned above. Pretty interesting stuff.

http://www.tuscaloosasistercities.com/

Welcome to the Tuscaloosa Sister Cities Commission. Our goal is to promote long-term, global people-to-people relationships through international leadership, friendship and understanding.

Since 1986, the Tuscaloosa Sister Cities Commission has facilitated hundreds of productive partnerships through cultural, civic and educational exchanges.

Our Sister City relationship with Narashino, Japan, Schorndorf, Germany and Sunyani-Techiman, Ghana continually enriches our community and its citizens, providing an avenue for the people in each city to develop friendly and mutually beneficial personal and professional relationships.
The Tuscaloosa Sister Cities Commission sponsors student exchanges with Narashino, Japan and Schorndorf, Germany on alternating years. Tuscaloosa students visited Narashino in 2002 and 2004.
Foreign exchange student programs is most of it apparently.

Seems they did a bit for Tuscaloosa after the tornado as well.
 

Alasippi

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Seriously, how in blue blazes did you find that video? How did you know to look for it?
... a friend emailed me the link. I have no idea how it came about. I can't imagine anyone googling "Bama Football Fight Song in Japanese Baseball Stadium" lol

I have to think there must have been a news story locally or something.
 

JPT4Bama

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We are world wide indeed. :biga:

My son saw a young Afghan wearing a Bama T-shirt last year. While in Afghanistan of course..;)

Apparently the Marines had already rounded up any villagers suspected of wearing any API garb.

OooRah!
 

Boo Radley

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Very cool, but it has something to do with being a sister city of Tuscaloosa: http://www.tuscaloosasistercities.com/narashino.html
No clue as to what that's about, but perhaps the next poster will explain.

This has a lot to do with it: http://www.jvc-america.com/about/plant_locations.aspx

At one time the company brought in a lot of Japanese management with their families. They even helped establish a Japanese pre and elementary school to educate their children. Don't know if it still exists, or whether the management is heavily Japanese.
 
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