Another origin story, first reported in 1980,[REF] places it at a University of Louisville Cardinals basketball practice during the 1978-1979 season [REF].
Conventional wisdom holds that the Tokyo district of Roppongi earned the slogan of "High Touch Town" after residents noticed WWII American GIs walking the streets giving each other high-fives; when the Japanese asked about the gesture it was mistranslated as hai tatchi or "high touch" [REF].