By MASAYUKI TAKASHIMA/ Staff Writer
December 5, 2023 at 19:01 JST
“Hagoita” wooden paddles displayed at the Kyugetsu doll store in Tokyo’s Taito Ward on Dec. 5 feature, clockwise from top left: major league slugger Shohei Ohtani; javelin world champion Haruka Kitaguchi; distance runner Nozomi Tanaka; "Slam Dunk" cartoonist Takehiko Inoue; TV personality Tetsuko Kuroyanagi; wheelchair tennis star Tokito Oda; OpenAI CEO Sam Altman; shogi prodigy Sota Fujii; and Hanshin Tigers manager Akinobu Okada. (Yuki Shibata)
Baseball star Shohei Ohtani, wearing his signature samurai “kabuto” helmet, made the nine-member lineup for special “hagoita” wooden paddles representing the year 2023. [Read More]
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