However, cheerleaders of a school from Kochi Prefecture wore skirts for its game at Koshien. The uniform was renewed when the baseball team qualified for the spring tournament. “Many students ...

To make up for last year’s cancellation of the spring invitational tournament, the 32 teams that had been scheduled to compete were brought together to Koshien last summer to play one game each.

Koshien follows Japan's annual high school baseball tournament, which captivates the country for two weeks every summer Greg Hanlon has been an editor in PEOPLE’s crime vertical since 2015. He ...