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Japan high school baseball team banned from smiling, waving in tourney entrance march - The Mainichi (mainichi.jp)

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 13 points 7 hours ago

The entrance march at the summer National High School Baseball Championship began during the third edition in 1917, held at Naruo Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture. According to tournament history, the march was inspired by the Olympics and the third Far Eastern Championship Games' opening ceremony in Tokyo in May 1917. Records show that high school players "marched to the music played by the 4th Division's military band and lined up."

A link to World War I culture, I guess.