Shinju Sakuma’s workplace is not limited to the baseball field.
Sakuma has accompanied foreign players to convenience stores, helped buy sneakers online and assisted players’ families with bureaucratic matters — the same kind of all-encompassing tasks as the 73 other interpreters working across NPB’s 12 teams.
What sets Sakuma apart, however, is that she is a woman.
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