Shohei Ohtani has been a superstar in Japan for more than a decade, but one day earlier this year, a Tokyo resident named Tatsuo Shinke noticed something different. Shinke, the CEO of Mint ...
Nakano Koichi, a professor who teaches politics and culture in Tokyo at Sophia University, observed that “the idolization of Ohtani in Japan reflects its own inferiority complex vis a vis the ...