March Madness Explained
Japan has venerable school sports traditions such as the Koshien baseball tournament and the Hakone Ekiden. In America, it’s the NCAA national basketball championship known as March Madness.
If you come to study in the U.S., you’ll find that this is the time of year when many college students – and Americans from all walks of life – become obsessed with March Madness. It lasts from mid-March to early April.