THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
November 9, 2023 at 07:00 JST
Masaaki Chida serves as a first-base umpire on Oct. 1 in Shizukuishi, Iwate Prefecture, for a quarterfinal of a national baseball championship using rubber balls. (Kazuhiro Nagashima)
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