Talk:Yu Darvish

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[edit] Darvish Yu's Popularity

The article referred regarding Yu's popularity is overstated. Darvish's popularity may have been very high during 2004, the year he pitched in the National High School Baseball Championship and when the article was written, but it has since waned in Japan. Darvish has joined the ranks of Japanese players, and is nowhere near as popular as iconic stars such as Daisuke Matsuzaka or Ichiro Suzuki. Darvish's popularity was also driven by the fact that he was a very good pitcher.

Yu's mixed heritage popularity is also superseded by other mixed race celebrities in Japan, including, but not limited to, Becky (Japanese-British), Rosa Kato (Japanese-Italian), Anna Tsuchiya (Japanese-Russian), Kaela Kimura (Japanese-British) and Takeshi Kaneshiro (Japanese-Taiwanese). This is further highlighted by the fact that Darvish has no advertising deals that often reflect a celebrity's popularity, unlike the previous 5 celebrities. Darvish could be considered Japanese baseball's biggest mixed race star, but it can be easily argued that he is not THE biggest mixed race star in Japan. Yet, even this is questionable due to the fact Darvish is a micron of a star compared to Sadaharu Oh, who is half-Taiwanese. --IceX 11:23, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

The Taiwanese, Chinese, Korean and Japanese are all classified as Oriental people and the same race.

Obviously I know the huge differences in culture, history, language and physical appearance but they are considered to be and are classified as the same race.

This automatically removes Takeshi Kaneshiro and Sadaharu Oh from your debate.

He also won the most valuable player award of the Konami Cup Asia Series 2006 as well as well as pitching the clinching game that enable Japan to win the series.

--Taz Manchester

There's very little difference to the Japanese between multi-racial and multi-cultural. As a result, a "half is a half", and most domestic articles regard multi-ethnic Asians and multi-racial Asians in the same boat, though it has decreased over the last few years.

Also, I'm not happy with the content of the article. There's an obvious abuse of using citations as a way of legitimizing editorial comment as "fact", such as Darvish being Japan's biggest rising star (the spot light is completely on Rakuten's Masahiro Tanaka this year, along with Waseda's Yuki Saito).

IceX 05:37, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

what's his religion?.... ~davi