Japanese Politics & Culture

Many Americans – and certainly those who are baseball fans – know the Curse of the Bambino, which came about when the Boston Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees, and then endured 86 years without a World Series title.
Japan – another country with a great baseball tradition – has a colorful superstition of its own: the Curse of the Colonel.
This one involves a pathetic team, fans jumping into a filthy canal, and the mystery of a missing statue of Colonel Sanders. (Global Post)