Otani Shohei.

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[Sports Center/Comprehensive Report] The World Baseball Classic will start in March. Japan will be led by two-swords star Shohei Otani to form the "strongest samurai team in history" and strive to regain the world's first championship in 14 years.

Katsuhiro Miyamoto, an honorary professor at Kansai University in Japan, believes that if the Japanese team wins the championship, the economic benefits are estimated to be as high as 59.6 billion yen (approximately NT$13.47 billion).

If the Japanese team wins the classic, the economic benefits created will be astonishing. Katsuhiro Miyamoto, an emeritus professor at Kansai University in Japan, estimates it to be about 59.64847 billion yen. There is an extra 25.3 billion yen, "Because the championship of the classic will bring great emotion to the Japanese people, and at the same time bring vitality. This is something that many Japanese look forward to."

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Katsuhiro Miyamoto also calculated that the sales of the tickets for the classic game plus the peripheral effects will be about 27.61503 billion yen. If the Japanese team performs well, it seems that 60 billion yen is not impossible.

The Japanese team won the classic championship for the first time in 2006, and the economic benefit created at that time was estimated to be 36.4 billion yen, and it was about 50.55 billion yen in 2009 when they completed their second consecutive championship.

Katsuhiro Miyamoto said that the Japanese team in this year's classic competition has major league players such as Shohei Otani and Darby Shuyu participating, plus the best of Japanese professional players, including popular players such as Munetaka Murakami, Langki Sasaki and Yunobu Yamamoto. It is bound to create a huge economic effect.

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