‘Proud and honored’: Kosuke Fukudome, Cubs’ first Japanese player, reconnects with team in Tokyo https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/91817/ #Baseball #ChicagoCubs #DerrekLee #JAPAN #JapanesePlayer #KojiUehara #KosukeFukudome #KyujiFujikawa #LosAngelesDodgers #MajorLeagueBaseball #MunenoriKawasaki #NewYorkMets #NipponProfessionalBaseball #NPB #SeiyaSuzuki #ShotaImanaga #TokyoDome #TsuyoshiWada #YuDarvish

https://www.alojapan.com/1260655/japanese-soccer-players-finding-a-sense-of-community-in-l-a/ Japanese soccer players finding a sense of community in L.A. #AngelCity #Community #FinalSeason #galaxy #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #JapanesePlayer #JapaneseSoccerPlayer #JunEndo #L.A. #MayaYoshida #news #position #SakiWatanabe #soccer #SouthernCalifornia #team Growing up Japanese American in Southern California, Saki Watanabe had plenty of role models who showed her she could be whatever she wanted to be. There were baseball pl…

https://www.alojapan.com/1224280/dave-roberts-reflects-on-japanese-heritage-ahead-of-dodgers-tokyo-opener/ Dave Roberts reflects on Japanese heritage ahead of Dodgers’ Tokyo opener #country #dodgers #eiko #family #Japan #JapanesePlayer #job #life #Naha #news #Okinawa #OkinawaNews #People #roberts #RokiSasaki #waymon #YoshinobuYamamoto #沖縄 The smile got a little bigger, the emotions a little deeper, the meaning a little greater the more Dave Roberts looked around the room. In the wake of last year’s World Series title, in which Roberts led the Dodg…