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Japan-South Korea ties / Baseball mirrors bilateral ties
The Yomiuri Shimbun
SK Wyverns starting pitcher Ken Kadokura thanks a teammate for his strong performance in Daejeon, South Korea, on Aug. 20.
This is the second installment in a series on Japan-South Korean relations marking the centennial of the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty of 1910.
Baseball has often served as a mirror of Japan-South Korea relations since first coming to the Korean Peninsula in 1905, and the reflection was most encouraging at an Aug. 13 match between the Doosan Bears and SK Wyverns at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul.
 Professional South Korean baseball was founded in the 1980s. Paik In Chon, a catcher and outfielder for the Toei Flyers and other teams, went to South Korea to guide the new league, as did former Yomiuri Giants pitcher Hisao Niura, an ethnic Korean who was raised in Japan.
Paik, who respected and emulated Yomiuri Giants legend Shigeo Nagashima, gave up his goal of achieving 2,000 hits in Japanese baseball, but became the first player to earn batting crowns in both Japan and South Korea.
Today, South Korean coaches are also coming to Japan. SK Wyverns manager Kim Sung Geun, 67, was a batting coach for the Chiba Lotte Marines for two years beginning in 2005.
Kim's dream is "to create an Asian League whose champion team would play against the U.S. World Series champions in a real World Series."
SK bullpen coach Yuji Serizawa, 42, said he feels immeasurable power in South Korean players, almost all of whom tackle training programs that seem beyond their limits.
"They plan to surpass Japan and aim for the summit of the world," said Serizawa, a former Chunichi Dragons player and coach.