Diamond Diplomacy

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How it feels

This documentary looks at how baseball connected Japan and the United States over 150 years. It tells the stories of early players who crossed the Pacific and modern stars like Shohei Ohtani and Ichiro Suzuki. The film shows how the sport acted as a cultural bridge between the two nations.

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What happens

Diamond Diplomacy: U.S. Japan Relations Through a Shared Love of Baseball is a 2025 documentary film that explored the historical and cultural relationship between Japan and the United States through baseball. It was directed by Yuriko Gamo Romer. The film connects early pioneers such as Masanori Murakami, the first Japanese player in Major League Baseball, and Warren Cromartie, an early American player in the Nippon Professional Baseball, to modern figures like Shohei Ohtani and Ichiro Suzuki. In doing so, it traces more than a century of transpacific exchange or "people-to-people diplomacy" through baseball as a resilient cultural bridge that has persisted over 150 years between the two countries. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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