Outpost Nine has some thoughts on Japanese baseball:
The regular season hadn’t started yet, it was just exhibition (A’s vs Giants), but it was still a bajillion zillion times better than Japanese baseball. In Japanese baseball, the strategy is to get a man on base…then bunt. They bunt with no outs, one out, two outs, runners on first, second, third, the bases loaded, it doesn’t matter. The pitcher bunts, the power hitter bunts, the leadoff hitter bunts, they might as well call it Buntball and just be done with it. The funny thing is, the Japanese almost sort of think that they invented baseball. A friend of mine asked why do the Japanese always bunt, and I told him “Are you kidding?! Sacrificing yourself for the good of the team, really was there any other choice?” (Link)
The entire series - on being a teacher in Japan - is pretty funny.