By SOKICHI KURODA/ Staff Writer
March 2, 2020 at 07:00 JST
Hiroshi Matsumoto, 83, swims 2,000 meters almost every day. "The pool is a place where I can concentrate myself. I have never found it painful," Matsumoto said in Minami-Alps, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Feb. 3. (Ryo Ikeda)
MINAMI-ALPS, Yamanashi Prefecture--At age 83, Hiroshi Matsumoto has smashed masters swimming world records 50 times and even beaten cancer twice to boot. [Read More]
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