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The Daily News looks at how the Yankees fared outside of the stadium during their trip to Japan, and it's definitely high on the Lost in Traslation "hey, look at this new culture!" meter. Some players that didn't like sushi would eat Kobe beef, Yankees were amazed at how clean Tokyo is, and they were amused by all the cameraphones. Manager Joe Torre said, "I certainly think, with baseball having to really try to get the appeal out there, I think we should be touchable. I don't think we should be untouchable," which probably threw Jeter fans into a frenzy, in hopes that Jeter would be touchable to them. And Derek Jeter himself noted, "They're ultra-happy and respectful, with regard to baseball." That's so true, as you can see by some fans' signs. Gothamist wonders if the Japanese fans booed; we remember Beck telling Conan O'Brien how performing in Japan is weird, because everyone claps at the same time and then goes completely silent.
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A story about japanese fans (in a roundabout way):
I went to Prince's soundcheck before his concert at Lincoln Center last year, where some fans were allowed to come hang out with him and watch him rehearse, and a bit of a stampede developed when the doors first opened and everyone ran for the best seats. I actually got knocked down and everyone else started tripping over me, creating a pile of bodies in the aisle, it was getting pretty absurd.
Embarrassingly enough Prince was actually sitting right there on the edge of the stage, watching our little Lord of the Flies moment, and he started calmly repeating: "Everyone slow down. Pretend your Japanese. Let's all pretend we're Japanese."
Once we had settled in he went on about how respectful and incredibly well-behaved Japanese fans have always been when he performed there. He said at one show he'd had tamborines given out to everyone in the crowd, but was shocked to find that instead of taking them home afterwards, almost all the fans had simply placed the tamborine on their seat after the showand left it there. When he asked why nobody took them home he was told "Nobody ever said the tamborines belonged to them."