The Oriental Witches - The Greatest Team You've Never Heard Of with Dr Helen Macnaughtan
Japan Sport Stories
English - November 12, 2020 04:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MBSports Society & Culture japan japanese sport paralympic olympic disability interviews asia tokyo 2020 Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The Oriental Witches are probably the most famous Japanese sports team that you've never heard of. From humble beginnings these women started playing volleyball for their factory team. A few years later, they had a World Championship silver medal and were on an unbeaten European tour.
They captured the heart of the Japanese nation in the run up to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and thee entire country had pinned their hearts on them taking home the Olympic gold and sealing the Olympics that re-introduced Japan to the post-war world.