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I had no idea when the Dodgers were scheduled to arrive in Japan until I walked out of Haneda Airport’s baggage claim area on Thursday afternoon.
Fresh off an 11-hour flight — not including a connection through San Francisco — I practically ran into a wall of camera phones. The Dodgers, it seemed, weren’t long behind me.
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Fans waited with baseballs in hand, held back by a short fence, ready to greet the reigning World Series champions and Shohei Ohtani, the most famous man in the country.