Late 1940's ( post war) Joe DiMaggio / New York Yankees : Japanese Menko Baseball Card / old vintage antique japan toy

Late 1940's ( post war) Joe DiMaggio / New York Yankees : Japanese Menko Baseball Card

Joe DiMaggio was quite well-known to Japanese people, too. He visited Japan several times.
Many Japanese players admired & "worshiped" him.

During the pacific war, baseball games were not much active in Japan. After the war, the mid 1940's, no wonder, people loved & missed this sport too much to take long to make it active again.  Also, a lot of toys , magazines etc relating to MLB  restarted to be made after the war.