Being the only Indian scribe in the large Japanese media contingent can be a little unnerving, but one was pleasantly surprised to bump intou00a0 a few Indian tennis fans. "I'm from Jharkhand but I work in Tokyo.

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Tokyo's only Japanese English daily newspaper The Japan Times made no mention of the Japan-India Davis Cup tie. The timings feature in the Today's Action section otherwise one would have been oblivious that there was tennis being played! Baseball is splashed all over the sports pages. In Japan, baseball is a religion, much like cricket inu00a0 India.