<figure id="attachment_300810" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-300810" style="width: 3699px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="0636fc47"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/03/332df568e0b62f4b6d82a1e704c22f0a.jpeg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-300810" class="wp-caption-text">Kazuma Okamoto of the Samurai Japan team is expected to have a big explosion (Photo by Jiji Press)</figcaption></figure>
 I want to do whatever it takes to win the tournament,&#8221; said Kazuma Okamoto, 26, a member of the Samurai Japan team.
 Kazuma Okamoto, 26, a member of the Samurai Japan team, participated in practice on April 14, and told a sports newspaper that he is determined to do whatever it takes to win the tournament. Although he wasn&#8217;t in great form, he was able to get a lot of hits and score one run in his three starts in the first round league.
 Okamoto is loved by the Giants as a teasing character, and he also plays a role in creating the team&#8217;s atmosphere as a mood-maker for Samurai Japan. He has been playing the unfamiliar defensive role of left fielder, and I think his contribution to the team in inconspicuous places is quite high,&#8221; said a reporter from a sports newspaper.
 On January 13, he suddenly opened his own Instagram page with the hashtag &#8220;#Me. On the 13th, he suddenly opened his own Instagram page and posted three close-up photos of himself in uniform with the hashtag &#8220;#Me. For some reason, only one of the photos was of Yoshida Masanao (29), a teammate and well-known good friend of Yoshida&#8217;s, to which Yoshida himself commented, &#8220;I&#8217;m in the picture! This mischievous post was a big hit with fans. Within two days of its launch, the site became popular with more than 150,000 followers.
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 Last year, his first child was born. At the end of last year, this magazine spotted Okamoto walking with his wife and child in a shopping mall in Tokyo. Okamoto was carrying several paper bags with apparel brand names on them and smiling as he looked into the face of the baby his wife was carrying.
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 On January 7, Okamoto, along with Yoshihiro Maru and Naoki Yoshikawa, attended a New Year talk show at a hotel in Tokyo. Asked about his aspirations as the new captain of the Giants, he replied
 I will hit the ball as hard as I can for the sake of winning the championship and becoming Japan&#8217;s No. 1 pitcher,&#8221; he said.
 I will hit the ball as hard as I can to win the championship and win the championship of Japan,&#8221; he said.
 In the quarterfinal game against Italy on January 16, he started at first and hit a three-run homer with two outs in the 3rd inning and runners at 1st and 2nd, and in the 5th inning, he hit a two-run double and drove in five runs. In the fifth inning, he hit a two-base hit to drive in two runs and score five runs to lead Japan to the semifinals. With this momentum, there is no doubt that he will hit like crazy for the No. 1 spot in the world.
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 The first round of the tournament will be held at the Japan Stadium in Tokyo on March 14, and the first round of the World Cup will be held at the same venue in Tokyo on March 15.

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