THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
March 22, 2023 at 19:20 JST
The scoreboard at the spring national high school baseball tournament displays the message, “Congratulations to the Japanese WBC national team” at Hanshin Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on March 22. (Takuya Tanabe)
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