Professional Organizations
The most popular professional sports in Japan are baseball, football, and sumo wrestling. Note that most practitioners in the martial arts are not professional, but played by amateurs.
Favorite professional sport | 2005 | 2008 | 2011 |
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Baseball (Nippon Professional Baseball) | 51.7% | 48.8% | 45.1% |
Football (J. League) | 22.8% | 21.8% | 28.9% |
Sumo | 17.1% | 19.3% | 15.1% |
Golf (Japan Golf Tour) | 16.9% | 16.3% | 19.9% |
Boxing | 7.8% | 8.9% | 7.7% |
Motor racing | 6.2% | 7.9% | 7.7% |
Puroresu | 4.2% | 4.8% | 3.1% |
Others | 8.0% | 6.0% | 5.7% |
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