Jokari is a racket game played mainly by two people, though it can also be played alone. It uses a rubber ball fixed to an anchor on the floor by a long elastic band, so that the ball springs back whenever a player strikes it. Players hit the ball with wooden paddles, and the game resembles swingball. It was invented in France in 1938 by Louis Joseph Miremont, who was then living in Bayonne. Jokari has reached something like cult status in France and turns up in several comics, and in the 2006 spy-film parody OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, where the English subtitles call it paddleball. Ian Fleming's 1963 novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service also mentions it in its first chapter. The game has been highlighted as a way of getting children to take part in physical activity.
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Jokari was invented in France in 1938
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Jokari was invented in France in 1938 by Louis Joseph Miremont
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Jokari is a racket game principally for two players that can also be played alone.
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Jokari was invented in France in 1938
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