Hiroki Kokubo, manager of the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks professional baseball team, will appear on Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's long-running talk show "Tetsuko's Room" (TV Asahi), which will be broadcast at 1:00 pm on March 12th. Last year, the team won the Japan Series for the first time in five years.
The manager of Japan's number one team says his nine cats are his greatest source of comfort. He says he finds them soothing, seeing them treat him with the same unwavering demeanor no matter what. He talks about the incredible talent of Shohei Ohtani, currently playing in the World Baseball Classic, from the perspective of someone who has played against him.
His mother, who raised him single-handedly from a young age, passed away in 2017 at the age of 70. He reveals the unforgettable words that hurt his mother as a child, as well as memories of traveling together in their later years. He has two children, a son who is 29 years old and a daughter who is 27 years old. He says that they sometimes get together for drinks, and as he talks happily, we get a glimpse of his true self as a father.
