Matsui, others unveil charity baseball game for Tohoku kids

TOKYO, Japan - Former New York Yankees slugger Hideki Matsui (L) and current Yomiuri Giants manager Tatsunori Hara (R) pose at a press conference held at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2014, to announce a plan to hold a "Tomodachi Charity Baseball Game" next March for children in the disaster-hit northeastern Japan region of Tohoku. Flanked by Matsui and Hara is Toru Arai, president of confectioner Morinaga & Co. which will cosponsor the event

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