TOKYO —- The smell of Tokyo’s air reminds me of the time when we first came here.
It was a bright and beautiful day I remember at the stadium where Japan’s best school baseball teams were gathered. Later that night, the highly-reverred Datu Tatsuo Uchida has instructed his grandson Yusuke San to bring us to a professional game and observe it. I didn’t know it that year, only to realize that I witnessed one outstanding player in Tokyo. He was the number 1 draft pick for the Yakult Swallows in 2005.I was just taking my chance, hoping to find a schedule, only to know in Google that the Nippon Professional League is on a break. Their regular season starts in March and ends in October.