(Japanese Holy Spring)"Because of the Bridegroom's Voice"
(In preparation)
When she was young, she was reporting high-school baseball matches here and there in local regions of Japan.
Now, she is a reporter in charge of formally and informally interviewing executive officials of the Japanese Government in Tokyo.
One night, she visited a home of one incumbent high-ranking official of the Japanese Government in Tokyo.
The official told her that his former subordinate now working in a diplomatic facility of the Japanese Government in the U.S. had sent him an interesting letter.
An old Japanese man died by himself in a hotel in America due to a fatal disease after having enjoyed an MLB game.
The old man, despite serious illness, had flown from Japan to America to see a Major League Baseball game, since he had wanted to see once at least Ichiro of the Mariners actually playing in an American ball park.
So, the long candidate for death flew to the U.S., watched Ichiro in a ball park, and went back to the hotel to die alone.
A Japanese bureaucrat stationed in the American city confirmed the identity of the old man and carried out necessary official arrangement to close the case.
Yet, the bureaucrat wrote about the incident to his former boss in Tokyo. And, the boss showed the letter to the female reporter one night at his home.
The most striking part of the letter is that Ichiro having heard of the unfortunate old man, a complete stranger to the baseball star, asked a Japanese diplomatic office in the city to search his bereaved family so as to extend his condolence personally, which was very smoothly carried out, for one of the bereaved families was also a government bureaucrat of Japan known to the bureaucrat who had first taken care of the deceased baseball fan after his death in the hotel.
That is why the Japanese national team won the World Baseball Classic recently held in America to decide what country is the number one in terms of teamwork in baseball.
It is so, since Ichiro of the Mariners drastically put an end to the extended game in the final by delivering a hit and scoring two runs against the Korean national team.
(Source: http://blog.kajika.net/ )
Yesterday, the first female professional baseball player in Japan made her debut taking a strike out against, of course, a male professional baseball player with knuckle balls and fastballs at about 60 miles per hour, though it is a local league in western Japan.
(Go slow, John; go slow! Let it really down at "down!" ...John, get back home out of New York.
Quant à vous, vous êtes bien, ma fille, presque.
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Joh 3:28 Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
Joh 3:29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.