FEATURE: Japanese man's American baseball odyssey enters 16th year

FEATURE: Japanese man's American baseball odyssey enters 16th year

Yusuke Masuda (L) and Yuzuru Yamazaki pose for a photo on Dec. 6, 2015, in Nashville, Tennessee, where they attended the annual baseball job fair. Yamazaki quit his job as an architect and has been in the United States searching for his dream job in American baseball since 2001. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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