Baseball: Japan's Olympic team manager Inaba

Japan's Olympic baseball team manager Atsunori Inaba shows an autographed new year message board reading "a bunch" in Tokyo on Dec. 23, 2020, ahead of the postponed Tokyo Olympics in the summer of 2021. Inaba said the character he wrote means a bunch of flowers for medical workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic while bidding to bring together strength for the gold medal.

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