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Jokari is aracket game principally for two players that can also be played alone. The game consists of a rubber ball attached to an anchor on the floor by means of a long elastic band, which makes the ball come back when a person hits it. Jokari is played with wooden paddles and is similar toswingball. The game has been highlighted as a way of engaging children in physical activity.[1]
Jokari was invented in France in 1938 by Louis Joseph Miremont, then residing inBayonne.[citation needed]
The game has reached cult status in France and is featured in severalcomics,[2] and also in the 2006James Bondspoof movieOSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, in the English translation of which, the game is called "paddleball".[citation needed] In the first chapter of Ian Fleming's 1963 novelOn Her Majesty's Secret Service, James Bond also refers to jokari as he is watching a beach on the northern coast of France.[citation needed]
In 2015, a group of Belgian medical doctors reported a case of a woman who presented with awandering spleen, naming this anatomical phenomenon "the Jokari sign".[3]
