In Japanese baseball, a pitcher who hits a batter with a pitch takes off his cap to apologize. The newspaper Nikkan Gendai describes this as what is taken for granted in Japan.
In August 2024, after a brawl in a game of the Lotte Marines, the former star hitter Ochiai Hiromitsu spoke about it on television. The pitcher probably believed he had apologized, he said, but the apology had not reached the batter.